education

Redefining homework: South Dakota educators bring varied virtual classrooms to students

The Daily Republic

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It’s been 10 weeks since South Dakota teachers last saw their students without the use of a computer screen, and with the school year now coming to a close and fall plans uncertain due to COVID-19, it will be several more months at least before they’ll again teach face to face.

When Gov. Kristi Noem first closed South Dakota’s schools in mid-March and those closures were eventually stretched through the end of the school year, districts across the state quickly cobbled together distance learning plans from various combinations of familiar and new online programs, pencil-and-paper handoffs of classwork and, for some, existing plans already developed in case of school closures longer than a snow day or two.

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Across South Dakota, thousands of school lunch accounts carry a negative balance

The Daily Republic

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Imagine if every public school in South Dakota gave every one of its students free lunch for a day.

That may seem implausible, but as far as financial impact, it’s not far off from what happened during the 2017-18 school year.

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Wyomissing Center alumni gather for reunion

The Reading Eagle

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Penn State Berks held a reunion Friday for students of the former Wyomissing Center of the Pennsylvania State University who graduated between 1960 and 1972.

About 60 were in attendance at the reunion on the Penn State Berks campus. Some came from around Berks County, while others traveled from as far as New Mexico and Florida.

The event, which featured remarks from David Delozier, director of development and alumni relations, and R. Keith Hillkirk, Penn State Berks chancellor, was dubbed the “Pioneer Reunion” in honor of the students and staff of the Wyomissing Center, who are known as pioneers because they were the first graduates of the campus.

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Student Senate denounces executive order, votes in favor of becoming sanctuary campus

The New Political

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Student Senate passed bills dealing with denouncing an executive order and becoming a sanctuary campus at its meeting Wednesday night.

Following a presentation from Better Bystanders, a group aiming to educate students on how to diffuse potentially dangerous situations, Senate turned to addressing concerns about how international students might be affected by President Trump’s recent executive order, titled “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States,” by passing a bill that would denounce it.

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Data: Ohio House of Representatives 2015

Data

I recently compiled a spreadsheet of every vote taken by the Ohio House of Representatives in 2015. It was extremely tedious and time-consuming, so hopefully someone else out there who needs this information can benefit from downloading my data set here rather than having to sort through all those session journals themselves.