The Candler County School System

Swain County High School is the only high school in the county. It is situated about a mile on the outskirts of a small town with 5 stoplights. The school currently enrolls 584 students. It houses a newly restructured Alternative Learning Program. The Alternative Learning Program houses 31 students. The high school also has a Freshman Academy which accommodates 156 students. These students are housed in a separate building for 50% of the day and then branch out to their electives. Both of these are initiatives that stemmed from high drop-out rates. The high school has recently gone through yet another leadership change. The school is now on its 4th principal in the past 5 years. It has seen 3 assistant principals in the past 4 years.

Mountain City is a diverse city and it has population over 165,000, according to case 4: Mountain City Schools. The Mountain City is home to the Mountain City School (MCS) district, which involves of approximately 29,500 students, as well as, a staff of 1,825 certificated personnel and 1,395 classified employees. (Peterson 41) The district is included of a post-high school educational program, five high schools, one alternative school, ten middle schools, and forty elementary schools. The administrative offices, also known as “The Hill”, view the employees within the district along with performer, decision making, and guiding finances for all the schools. (Peterson 41) MCS is important part of Mountain city.

Medomak Valley High School, located in Waldoboro, ME, is the only high school in Maine School Administrative District #40 and serves students from Friendship, Waldoboro, Warren, Washington, and Union in midcoast Maine. For decades, the school district had two middle schools - A.D. Gray Middle School, which served students from Friendship and Waldoboro, and D.R. Gaul Middle School, which served students from Warren, Washington, and Union. In the fall of 2008, the year I started at Medomak Valley High School, the district opened Medomak Middle School to serve all seventh and eighth grade students in the district and closed A.D. Gray Middle School and D.R. Gaul Middle School. The new middle school was built at the Medomak Valley High

High School is an incredibly important period of life. It influences your social, academic, and personal life for four years, and prepares you for college and a career. This is the reason County Prep High School is my school of choice. County Prep's thriving social environment, challenging academic curriculum, and wide variety of electives will help me successfully carry out my plans for the future.

Polk county public schools consist of 63 languages spoken, representing 151 countries. Nearly 11,000 students speak Spanish, 720 speak Haitian Creole and 100 speak Arabic language. In this school district 39 percent of students’ ages 0-17 live below the poverty line(“Diversity Management”, 2012). Unfortunately 19.3 percent of all children in Florida also live below the poverty line. 67 percent of the students enrolled in Polk County Public schools met federal guideline to quality for free or reduce lunch. 79 out of 158 schools in Polk County are classified as Title 1 schools. Polk County Population breakdown by racial makeup: White 66.3 percent, Black 15 percent, Hispanic 17.7 percent, Asian 1 percent, Native American less than 1 percent, Pacific Islander less than 1 percent. The district includes 158 principals and about 240 assistant principals (“Diversity Management”, 2012).

Hutchinson County is located in Northwest Texas near Panhandle, is very old, being founded in

At the August 15 Chagrin Falls Board of Education meeting, State Representative Marlene Anielski (Ohio’s 6th House District) was recognized for her exemplary support and advocacy for public education, including the Chagrin Falls Exempted Village Schools.

Bethel School District #43 v. Fraser (1987) Bethel School District v. Fraser, 478 U.S. 675 (1986), was a landmark decision[1] by the United States Supreme Court involving free speech in public schools. High school student Matthew Fraser was suspended from school in the Bethel School District in Washington for making a speech including sexual double entendres at a school assembly. The Supreme Court held that his suspension did not violate the First Amendment. (wiki) Holding: Students do not have a First Amendment right to make obscene speeches in school. Matthew N. Fraser, a student at Bethel High School, was suspended for three days for delivering an obscene and provocative speech to the student body. In this speech, he nominated his fellow

June 16th 2015 a public Session of the Beaufort County School Board meeting took place in the media room of Bluffton Community Library. Those that presented on the agenda were Paul Roth, Michael Rivers, Eva Anderson and Drew Davis. Roth discussed allocating money for future sports storage the district. Michael Rivers and Eva Anderson spoke on modification of physical education in primary schools and reintroducing P.E. back into the 7th grade curriculum. Drew Davis took the majority of the board meeting to a discuss a 3 year long initiative to drug test students participating in high school level sports for the upcoming 2015-2016 school year. Considering students voluntary participate in sports it is not violating their 14th Amendment rights.

In May of 1983, some students in the journalism class at hazel wood high school in Missouri, made the final edition of the school newspaper. They then gave the newspaper to the adviser, Howard Emerson, who wa a newbie. He gave the principal the final review of the paper before it was published. When the principal, Reynolds, reviewed the paper, there were 2 articles that he didn’t like. The first article was about teen pregnancy, including some comments from students that were pregnant at the school. Names weren’t given, but Reynolds thought there was too much information on the topic and he was concerned about the privacy of the students. So he took that article out. The second article was about divorce, and this one included a lot of personal stuff. Reynolds was not happy about what the students said about their families. One student said a lot of revealing things about their dad, and the dad hadn’t been given a chance to explain himself. He also didn’t want 9th graders to be reading about sex and birth control, which were in both articles. Reynolds took out the second article also, and published the rest of the paper.

and Twin City Elementary. Twin City is also known for its football team at ECI, home of the

Prosper, Texas is one of the last additions to Collin County and has a current population of over 12,000 residents (Minor, 2010). Prosper’s establishment came about from the merging of two farming settlements in 1902, however the city’s name was not incorporated until 1914 (“History”, n.d.; Minor, 2010). According to the city’s webpage, Prosper is committed to being family-oriented and providing every resident an opportunity to experience quality living while maintaining small town ideals (“About Prosper”, n.d.). The Prosper Independent School District’s (PISD) vision to “reach everyone, everyday” (“REACH Philosophy / REACH”, 2002) mirrors the town’s belief in including everyone. Despite the exceptional growth within the city over the past few years, the school district is determined to meet the needs of its student population. One way in which PISD plans to ensure all of its students receive an equitable education, is through its adoption and implementation of the Response to Intervention (RtI) program.

Acme County Office of Schools is the fourth largest county office in the state of California. It services 50 school districts and approximately 250,000 students in the Acme County through academic programs, career and technical education and the arts. They are mandated by the government to safeguard the financial activities of those school districts to be accountable and comply with the state and federal laws for funding they receive. Their goal with the government funding is to provide the students of the Acme County with the services that would allow every child, no matter their circumstances or abilities the access to a quality education in order to succeed.

The Forrest County School District (FCSD) is dedicated to meeting the wide-ranging academic needs of all students and presenting opportunities for individuals to develop specialized talents and interests.

There are three schools within the Mansfield school district: Wilder Elementary, Mansfield Middle School, and Mansfield High School. There are 697 students within the district and of those 98.9% are white/Caucasian. Other races, African American, Asian Pacific, and Hispanic make up less than 1.1%. Mansfield is a high poverty school with 70 % of students being eligible for free and reduced lunch.