HUMBOLDT — Students in Humboldt High’s publications class will attend the National Scholastic Press Association and Journalism Education Association conference in Washington, D.C., in November. IN OTHER NEWS, board members:
USD 258 Board of Education members approved attendance Monday night.
Students will be involved in competition one day, and also take in sightseeing.
Approval was given for the group to use two district vehicles for transportation to and from the airport in Kansas City. Kim Isbell is the HHS journalism instructor. Her husband, Corey, will go along as a sponsor.
Students have started fund-raising efforts to pay for air fare, lodging, tours and food.
Sunny Shreeve, who directs the district’s after-school program, told about “Save the Children,” a program proposed by Gov. Sam Brownback. The literacy program’s goal is to improve children’s ability to read for academic, personal and eventually career purposes.
The state will partner with schools in rural areas, and provide funding and support. Twenty schools in southeast and southwest Kansas will be involved. Instruction will be Monday through Thursday for a six- to eight-week period, as well as in summer for grades kindergarten through third, five days a week in a summer camp type atmosphere.
Expected outcome is for students to be reading at grade level when they enter fourth grade.
The district could receive up to $100,000 in state funding.
Board members gave unanimous support to a memorandum of understanding between USD 258 and the Kansas Reading Roadmap Program.
John Johnson, high school principal, reported on training he received from the Kansas Highway Patrol concerning drugs and alcohol. The experience will give him better means of determining if students are under the influence, and how to deal with such problems.
— Approved one-year contract extensions through the 2015-16 school year for K.B. Criss, superintendent of schools, Johnson and Kay Bolt, middle and elementary schools principal.
— Learned from Criss that the district has used up designated snow days.
Washington trip on tap for HHS students
