Congrats to Leslie LaCorte and the Assumption Knight Players
on being invited to perform The Pitmen Painters at the International
Thespian Festival! Our students received
a superior rating from the Educational Theatre Association and will be one of
ten schools performing at the festival.
What a great accomplishment for our fine arts program!
A couple of updates
for the week:
Carey and I
continue to work with the Diocese on the potential for a group insurance
program. We will have our second meeting
on Friday to discuss the benefits and challenges of a collective group
insurance plan.
This really was a week of celebrating AHS. The President’s Appreciation Dinner was held
at the Crow Valley on Wednesday night and was a huge success thanks to the hard
work of Liz King. We had a great turnout, and the speeches by Mrs. Murphy
and Ms. Wuhlfekuhle were fantastic. It was a great chance to celebrate
the generosity of our donors to Embracing our Future, the Mississippi
Valley STO, and the Annual Appeal. It also was a great chance to
highlight not only the accomplishments of our students, but also all the
facilities upgrades we have completed in the last year. The highlight
of the night was a performance by one of our jazz bands, the JazzKnights. These students gave an unbelievable
performance!
The Annual April Knight Christmas Luncheon was held Friday, and
as always it had record breaking attendance.
Thanks to Susie Foster and Jane Coryn for all of their hard work with the
luncheon and April Knight. Mrs. Murphy was this year’s speaker, and she did a
tremendous job highlighting all the spiritual, academic, and extracurricular
achievements of our students. The
JazzKnights also gave a wonderful performance at this event. It is inspiring to see so many people who
really care about Assumption and the future of Catholic education in Scott
County.
Wednesday brought our annual insurance walkthrough, and
everything went very well. Eric Leuth
does a tremendous job of keeping us in compliance and fixing any issues that
come up during these visit. The
inspector always compliments our efforts and it is nice to be able to stay
ahead of any potential problems.
The K-12 Marketing Committee met Thursday, and continues to
work on preparing for Catholic Schools Week.
I also had a chance to meet with local legislators and hear the
Lieutenant Governor and Director of Education speak at the AEA Thursday. I would encourage you to check out the
education proposal that was released several weeks ago from the Governor’s office
here
. After listening to the legislators
speak, it seems as though the upcoming session will focus on property tax
relief, creation of job opportunities for the unemployed, and education
reform. Much of the education reform
will focus on setting allowable growth, aligning instruction to the Iowa Core,
start date for schools, and teacher evaluation.
It will be very interesting to see what comes out of this session.
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