The next superintendent of Cuyahoga Falls schools is coming from a smaller district, but his students are poorer and more likely to have disabilities than the students in the Falls.
Todd Nichols, who heads the Bucyrus City Schools in Crawford County, has been offered the top job, said Falls board President Therese Dunphy.
The school board will vote Monday on a tentative three-year contract to hire Nichols, who was one of two finalists for the Falls superintendent job. The other was Domenic Paolo, superintendent of Fairport Harbor Exempted Village School District in Lake County.
Contract details won’t be known until the board votes Monday on the contract.
Nichols will replace Edwin Holland, who is taking over the Cleveland suburban schools district of Cuyahoga Heights.
Nichols has been at Bucyrus since December of 2007 and also has experience as a principal and a math teacher.
Dunphy said Nichols’ extensive use of student data and technology was one of the reasons he was chosen.
”He brings a very good mix of business and academic strengths to the district,” Dunphy said.
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Well, it is finally here. Final exams have ended, and a week of class reflection and socializing is under way. Commencement is around the corner. Soon, I will be receiving a diploma that symbolizes four years of coursework. Despite this milestone, I am graduating with some reservations.
Months of job-searching have yielded no employment offer. I never expected to still be unemployed a few days before the big day. Apparently, this is not unusual. In speaking with mentors and professors, I have learned that many of them did not have a set job upon graduating from college. They can all relate to my experience and confidently tell me not to worry. “Things will work out,” and, “You will end up where you need to be,” are common lines. Though I want to trust them, I am almost incredulous.
My conversations with classmates have also led to similar discoveries. Except for those seniors continuing their education or working in the finance sector, it seems that almost everyone is waiting for a job offer. Some seniors may have summer plans that take them through late August. Others
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When I woke up the morning of graduation, I looked out my window and immediately went back to bed. The sky was not the perfect shade of Carolina blue I had envisioned but instead a dismal gray with storm clouds gathering. Nonetheless, I found myself hours later standing in the sea of blue robes anxiously awaiting the end of the ceremony and the officialness of being college graduates.
I could not help but think the weather was a suitable metaphor for the mixture of ambivalence and elation I was feeling. It has been a difficult thing to grasp, but at the moment my job search is on hold. Instead of submitting cover letters these days, I am traveling and volunteering in Europe with one of my best friends from college. At the moment, we are working on an organic vineyard in northern Italy.
There are a lot of things that are not ideal about the current situation. If this were a perfect world, I would have secured my dream job in October. Alas, as we all know this is not a perfect world. Thus, I am off traveling not only without the security of returning to paid employment but also the inability to continue my job search from abroad.
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COLUMBIA – University of South Carolina head football coach Steve Spurrier clarifying Thursday that Gamecock defensive back Victor Hampton has not been reinstated to the team.
Spurrier indicated that Hampton’s situation is still under review and he needs to “do some things” between now and the start of the second session of summer school to be reinstated to the team.
Hampton tweeted last week that he had been kicked off the team.
Hampton is a redshirt freshman from Darlington High School.
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Recently, I dipped into the Chinese microblogging world, ruled by 微波 (wēi bó). Like Twitter, it can be completely overwhelming to the uninitiated, especially with the millions of users and the Chinese interface. I wasnt sure how much time or energy I wanted to spend on it, and how much benefit I would end up getting out of it. So here I sit at the edges without throwing myself in.
On one hand, there is a wealth of information out there, and so many people to interact with. I know some non-native speakers who rave about the service, and about how you can say so much more with Chinese characters than with English in the 140 character word limit.
On the other hand, there is a lot of slang and language shortcuts to navigate through, which is very intimidating for the average language learner.
Have you had any luck learning from foreign language blogs or microblogs? Would you recommend one over the other?