The biggest education news in Iowa has to be Governor Brandstad’s release of the document, One Unshakable Vision – World Class Schools for Iowa. Many meetings I attended this week have involved a good deal of discussion on the plan and potential benefits and challenges. It seems like people fall into two camps when discussing the plan, either they doubt its feasibility or they consider it to be a resounding call to “change the face” of education in Iowa. Politics aside, there are tremendous implications for Assumption High School, depending upon which parts of the plan are enacted. We will have discussions about these implications as a faculty in the future. The plan can be read at: http://educateiowa.gov/
Speaking of politics, I had an opportunity to listen representatives Bruce Braley and Dave Loebsack speak about some potential education changes at the federal level. Some of the conversation surrounded the process for opting out of No Child Left Behind. It is my understanding that this is a decision made at the state level, but does have implications for all of our schools.
There was a very good article on Catholic education in the Wall Street Journal. I encourage you to check it out at: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204138204576600660103642184-lMyQjAxMTAxMDAwMzEwNDMyWj.html?mod=wsj_share_email
There was a technology hiccup on Monday, which appears to have been caused by a power outage around 4 am Saturday morning. All of our servers restarted perfectly except for our student information system server. After we got it up and running again, we changed some settings to prevent this from reoccurring, which caused us to discover that one of our backup power sources failed when the power went out and will need to be replaced.
A couple of facilities matters for this week: We are looking at having some roof work done and Eric has begun the next set of memorabilia cabinets to match those already installed in S-wing.
Our students, faculty and staff participated in a pink out this Friday for Mrs. Shovlain. She will be undergoing surgery soon and the Assumption Family wanted to show their support. It was great to see everyone come together and send such a strong message.
Have a great weekend and let me know if you have questions.
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