You are the education reporter for an online news organization that serves residents in the Forest Area School District, a fictional school district, serving the city of New Leaf and surrounding towns (population about 35,000). The district is home to 7,000 students and has a single high school of about 2,500 students; two middle schools, each with about 800 students; and six elementary schools. The decision-making body is a seven-member school board (members are called “directors”) elected by area residents.
You attended the school board meeting and, after live tweeting it, are expected to write-a story about what was discussed. Which topics will you cover in your story?
The bullet points below represent the main topics covered as you reported them on Twitter. Rank them based on their newsworthiness with 1 being the most newsworthy and 7 the least newsworthy. Then write-a short paragraph explaining your
Jerry Williams, who has taught PE at the high school for 30 years and who coached junior varsity football at Forest Area High School for the last 10 years, is retiring.
In a presentation, Student Statistics, a local consulting firm hired by the board, forecast a decline in enrollment at the elementary level. While elementary enrollment has been stable at about 1,650 for the past five years, statistical models indicate that enrollment will steadily decline to 1,300 by 2025 and stay there for several years.
Judy Davis has been hired as an administrative assistant in the district’s finance office.
Middle school assistant principal Valerie Williams resigned effectively immediately. She had held the position for less than one year.
The state Department of Education released the scores from mandatory testing for all school districts. High school students’ scores in Forest Area declined for the second year; middle school students’ scores were stable; and elementary students’ scores were up.
A leak at the high school’s swimming pool has closed the facility for all PE classes, the high school swim team and community use. Cost of repair is estimated at $250,000, and the repair will take six weeks.
The school board requested athletic director Mark Fox to draft a new policy concerning the use of performance-enhancing drugs by high school athletes. The policy will include a provision that student athletes found to be using steroids will be suspended from participating on team sports. Fox reported the high school principal (Ruth Bowden) said that several members of the varsity football and basketball teams told her steroid use is happening among athletes.
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