Elementary School Government Junior High 
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 18, 2016
The district’s first school board meeting on August 3, 1970, had 19 agenda items, including determining the district’s sick leave policy and finding furniture for the elementary school. The school buildings in the newly added neighborhood became the district’s sixth-grade and ninth-grade schools.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 10, 2023
Sitting beside her, Candy Turner , a retired elementary school teacher who had brought Ziploc bags of pear slices and dried cranberries for the hours ahead, agreed. “I After Election Day, headlines in key locales all around the country spoke of moms fighting extremists in local school board races and winning.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 2, 2016
Home to more than 12,000 public school children, the district was the first in Mississippi to defy the governor and voluntarily offer real choice for white and black children to enroll in each other’s schools. By 1970, black and white children and teachers were fully integrated class-by-class, school-by-school.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 3, 2019
Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist presents a Golden Apple Award to Dr. Abraham Kamara at Memorial Junior High School. Related: LA’s school counselors strike back. Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist visits a first-grade class at Penn Elementary School.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 2, 2021
In January, Rosa Bermudez brought home a colorful worksheet from Stansbury Elementary School, meant to guide her “power plan” for a safe, healthy relationship to technology. The work was among her first in English, and in an American public school. At his junior high, Joaquín’s favorite class is reading.
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