Fox Valley Initiative Introducing Board of Education Candidates McGinley and Hartzheim 03/01/2021

Fox Valley Initiative is holding an event on 03/01/2021 at 6:30pm at Freedom Project Academy, 750 N. Hickory Farm Lane, Appleton. Professor Duke Pesta will review the Wisconsin educational environment and introduce Deborah Kerr who is running for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He will […]

Question And Answer Session At The 02/22/2021 Board of Education Meeting

During the 02/22/2021 Appleton Area School District Board of Education Meeting, there was a question and answer session after the leadership team announced that 5-6 grades would be returning to 5 day a week in-person instruction starting March 15 and 7-12 grades would be moving […]

AASD Eyes March 15 And April 5 For Increased In-Person Instruction For Grades 5-6 and 7-12

Some fairly big news from the 02/22/2021 Board of Education meeting. The Appleton Area School District is planning to return 5-6 graders to 5 day a week in-person instruction and move 7-12 graders to 4 day a week in person instruction. March 15th is the […]

Board of Education To Hold 9 Hour Coherent Governance Training Session On 02/19/2021

The Board of Education is holding a work session on 02/19/2021 from 8am to 5pm. They’ll be undergoing “Coherent Governance Implementation Training and Policy Development”. There was some discussion at the last meeting of Jim Clemons, the newest Board of Education member, attending this meeting […]

Renaming Lincoln Elementary Would Mark The First Time AASD Has Removed A Person’s Name From A School To Replace It With Another Person’s Name

In light of the proposal to rename Lincoln Elementary School after Ron Dunlap, I reached out to the Appleton Area School District to find out what the district’s history is in regards to renaming schools. It appears that this would be the first time that […]

Appleton Area School District Board of Education Discusses Renaming Lincoln Elementary the Ronald C. Dunlap Elementary School – Home of the Lincoln Lions

During the 02/08/2021 Appleton Area School District Board of Education meeting, the Board considered, as an information item, the proposal to rename Lincoln Elementary to the Ronald C. Dunlap Elementary School – Home of the Lincoln Lions. Per Superintendent Judy Baseman, Ron Dunlop died October […]

Board Of Education Responds To The Report That Fs and Incompletes Are Up Considerably Compared To Previous Years

The Board of Education met 02/08/2021, and after reviewing the shockingly high number of Fs and incompletes by Appleton Area School District high schoolers in the first semester the floor was opened for questions. At the end of the presentation on grades, Superintendent Baseman had […]