![]() ![]() These two classes will be lost and I have deep concerns over this.” ![]() Then you are going to move them next year into buildings that really aren’t ready to support the goals you’ve laid out. “Can you imagine the gap that is going to exist for these kids? They already had a rough year, very rough. “After a horrible year this year with this hybrid learning and the 11-year-olds struggling with this, you are going to take all of these seventh- and eighth-graders and readjust them throughout the entire district without the buildings finished to accomplish your goals and processes that you laid out,” said Anderson, who has a sixth-grader in the Arts Academy and two older children who graduated from the Arts program. ![]() ![]() The restructuring plan calls for expanding Crenshaw Middle School to add a gymnasium and dedicated space for industrial arts and extensive renovations to the STEAMM Academy at Hartford to create an exhibition area, theater, greenhouse, maker space and woodshop. Jennifer Anderson questioned moving seventh- and eighth-graders from the Arts Academy to middle schools that won’t be renovated for at least another year. “We chose to have our children there because, to me, it just feels like a better option for a school.” “I understand you are trying to make the most of what we have here but if there is any way the Arts Academy can remain the way it is and a K-8 school, I feel like I would not be the only one relieved,” wrote Angela Bilbrey, whose children are in kindergarten, second, sixth and eighth grades at Arts Academy. Of the 16 messages the board received, roughly half of them concerned the Arts or AIM academies. More about the Design for Excellence plan: Sweeping overhaul calls for major changes at nearly every Canton City school buildingĭue to COVID-19 precautions that limit the size of gatherings, residents were encouraged to email or send an audio or video message to the board instead of attending the meeting. The parent’s messages were read aloud for school board members Monday during the board’s first meeting since Superintendent Jeff Talbert publicly announced the Design for Excellence proposal. If approved, the plan would take effect this fall. The plan, dubbed Design for Excellence, would eliminate seventh- and eighth-grade classes at both academies and would move AIM Academy from the northeast side of the city to McGregor Elementary, which is located in the southwest quadrant. They said Monday their children are thriving and question why the district would want to disrupt such successful programs as part of its proposed school restructuring plan. " North American free trade agreement (NAFTA) - Resources.CANTON Parents with students in the Arts Academy at Summit and AIM Academy at Fairmount are asking the Canton City School District to leave their schools alone. Government of Canada/Gouvernement du Canada. " NAFTA and the USMCA: Weighing the Impact of North American Trade." Here’s What’s in the New NAFTA."Ĭouncil on Foreign Relations. " U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) Trade Agreement," and 2. " The US-Mexico Wage Gap Has Grown, Not Shrunk,Under NAFTA. " Do NAICS Codes Change Over Time?"Ĭenter for Global Development. " Foreign Trade."Ĭouncil on Foreign Relations. Office of the United States Trade Representative. " Joint Statement from United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland." ![]()
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