Nell Shellman

'I'm glad to see that we're going to try to take proactive measures to show the community how to respect teachers because they are professionals. They are people. They're human just like us.'

The board spent time considering the impact of school climate on employee retention, parent satisfaction, and student development

Watts reiterated the plan has been amended to keep Gould Elementary open, to refrain from altering the student populations of Butler, Haven, and Hodge Elementaries, and to push back the conversion of Largo-Tibet Elementary into a swing site

The primary issue for many attendees is that the plan includes the dissolution of Gould Elementary, a closely knit community that is 42.2 percent Hispanic, 48.3 percent economically disadvantaged, and 25.8 percent English language learners.

Students and staff would be scattered among three other elementary schools: Haven, Butler, and New Hampstead, with additional administrative placement at the Gould-Mercer-Groves—or GMG—K-12 site slated to open next year in Garden City.

“Our district for a long time has always coupled passing the budget with passing the millage... we have figured out what we are going to get in taxes, and then we budget from that instead of budgeting from our priorities and our goals."

The sandwiches have names like The Nookie, The Great Debate, and The Piggly Wiggly.

'Right now we have very limited flexibility to be able to modify how those ESPLOST dollars are utilized when we face major news announcements like a big mega plant that's exponentially increasing our population.'

'The City of Savannah needs to put on the books several regulations to have a happy medium'

From at-risk school data to Groves ELL student concerns to pre-k funding

From the closure of Groves' ELL program to more discussion of book bans

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