Schools

As COVID-19 numbers in Wisconsin improve, members of the Kaukauna Area School District’s board of education last week asked administrators to bring a recommendation to the Feb. 8 meeting to bring secondary students to school more often than the current two days per week.

Kaukauna High School teacher and Choir Director Joy Paffenroth earned the Wisconsin Choral Directors Association’s inaugural Outstanding High School Director Award.

Secondary level students in Kaukauna are getting closer to being in school more often. The district has come with a new instructional model that has every student in grades 5-12 in school on Mondays, with each of the co-horts in school on Tuesday or Thursday, and everyone virtual on Wednesdays.

The University of Wisconsin System and its flagship university are falling behind their peers in key financial metrics, as a tuition freeze, declining enrollment, stagnant state funding, and lackluster growth in research spending threaten their long-term competitiveness.

The Little Chute School Board approved at a meeting last week a district-sponsored COVID-19 supplemental leave policy available to employees through March 31

Director of Business Services Becky Hansen presented the Kimberly Board of Education with the district’s five-year budget forecast at its regular meeting last Monday evening.

Kaukauna High School has selected 12 students as students of the month for December of the 2020-21 school year. Students are selected by a staff member in each department in the school.                                                                                                        

Art: Ethan Yang, Grade 12

The University of Wisconsin System and its flagship university are falling behind their peers in key financial metrics, as a tuition freeze, declining enrollment, stagnant state funding, and lackluster growth in research spending threaten their long-term competitiveness.

The K-Kids at Park Community Charter School is the “Kiwanis Club for Kids.”

Currently, the club has fourth graders participating, with hope the third graders can join them later in the school year as COVID-19 decreases.

Amid a pandemic and global recession, school districts are increasing property taxes for the coming year by 3.3 percent — lower than last year’s 4.5 percent but still the second-highest percentage since 2010.