Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Students at Paulding County high schools may now use cell phones or tablets during class when instructed by teachers.
Paulding County high school students can now use cell phones and tablets in class to enhance lessons. The Board of Education on Tuesday approved changes to the board's policy on the use of electronic devices that now state that students may use electronic devices at the direction of the instructor. The use of electronics outside of instructional time is only allowed by students in grades nine through 12. "[Students] can pull up research [with the devices]," Superintendent Cliff Cole said. "Sometimes a teacher might tell them to go to a specific website." How to monitor use of electronic devices, though, is something that school system officials have been discussing, Cole said. "The teacher will have to be aware and be observant of what the…
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
The Paulding County School Board and Paulding County Board of Commissioners will be holding their regularly scheduled meetings today. See what’s on the agendas, and then return to Dallas-Hiram Patch for more coverage.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
The Paulding County School Board meets this morning at 8:30 in the central office boardroom. Later today, the Paulding County Board of Commissioners will hold its two regularly scheduled meetings—its 10 a.m. work session and 7 p.m. business session. The agendas for both entities’ meetings today are attached in PDF form. Return to Dallas-Hiram Patch for more coverage.
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Friday, September 21, 2012
Like their counterparts in other state agencies, staff members in Paulding County Schools will soon pay higher health insurance costs. The district's cutting of a subsidy toward employee health coverage plans will drive staff members' costs even higher.
Clarification: An earlier version of this story reported that school district employees were set to see premium hikes as high as 768 percent. That percentage does not reflect a rate increase, but rather, the total payment increase some employees will see as a result of Paulding County Schools’ elimination of a subsidy toward employees’ health insurance costs coupled with state-set rate increases. The story below has been corrected to reflect the clarified language. Paulding County School System employees will pay higher health insurance costs next year, but teachers and staff in the county aren’t the only ones being hit by higher rates. That’s one thing district leaders want employees to know as open enrollment in the state health plan …
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The two face felony charges in connection with the early Monday spray-painting of East Paulding High.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Paulding County Sheriff’s Office school resource officers about 2 p.m. Tuesday arrested two 16-year-old boys in connection with the Monday morning vandalism of East Paulding High School. As the two are juveniles, authorities did not release their mugshots nor their names, but according to a sheriff’s office press release, both were East Paulding students who had been suspended from the school earlier in the year and were not allowed on school property. Both were students in the Ombudsman program, the alternative school program used by the school district. The two each face a charge of criminal interference with government property, a felony under Georgia Code 16-7-24. The two also face two misdemeanors—curfew violation, as both are under …
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School district officials as of late Monday had not determined if students were involved in the early Monday vandalism of East Paulding High School.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Nearly a day into the investigation into the latest case of vandalism on the campus of East Paulding High School, officials with Paulding County Schools were still trying to answer several key questions in the case—among them, who was involved in the incident, and how did they make it onto the campus? Possible answers to the latter include the residential areas that touch the school’s boundaries, or the road that connects the high school to East Paulding Middle, according to Associate Superintendent Brian Otott. “What we have been able to ascertain at this time is they did not use the main entrance to the school,” Otott told Dallas-Hiram Patch. “There is access on all sides for anyone who is willing to do something like this to get onto …
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Monday, September 10, 2012
Nearly six months after the school was hit by teen vandals, the school early Monday was the target of graffiti. Those involved in the incident could face felony charges.
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- Jon Gargis
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Monday, September 10, 2012
For at least the second time this year, East Paulding High School was the target of widespread vandalism, as individuals spray-painted several areas of the campus in the early morning hours Monday. According to a release from the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office, about 1:46 a.m. Monday, individuals got onto school property and spray-painted exterior parts of the school, including the auxiliary gym, two hallways, walls of the school and some sidewalks. Messages spray-painted on about 20 areas of the school included “Class of 2015,” “Illuminati,” and “Don’t do drugs, smoke weed.” No damage to the interior of the school was reported. District officials report a clean-up estimate of $1,000 to $1,200. Those involved in the incident could face …
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East Paulding High School
3320 E Paulding Dr, Dallas, GA
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The Paulding County School District this week will begin inviting individuals to take part in an online survey focused on their perception of the school system.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
The Paulding County School District next week will begin inviting individuals to take part in an online survey focused on their perception of the school system.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
As part of their improvement efforts, officials with the Paulding County School District and all of its schools will be sending starting Monday an invitation for individuals to participate in an online survey that centers on the district and its educational mission. The invites will go out Sept. 10-21. According to a news release, the surveys are a means to engage all of the district’s stakeholders—parents, students and staff—in two-way communication. The surveys are aimed at providing school leaders and teachers a lens into the thinking and perceptions of stakeholders. The results will be analyzed to determine schools’ areas of strength and effectiveness, as well as those areas that may need improvement. Survey results will allow school …
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
School system employees will see premium hikes up to 768 percent.
Paulding County School System employees can expect to see a jump in their health insurance premiums next year. That’s due to a rate increase in the state health insurance benefit plan and the school system cutting the $56.92 it pays toward employee premiums. Single employees will see the highest percentage increase with jumps ranging from 112 percent to 768 percent. Single employees with the Wellness United Healthcare HMO plan will see their monthly rates increase from $65.64 to $139.38 while those with the Wellness United Healthcare high deductible plan will see their monthly rates jump from $9.62 to $83.54. Employees with family coverage will see rate increases ranging from 56 percent to 86 percent. For example, employees with the …
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The Paulding County School Board and the Paulding Board of Commissioners will hold regularly scheduled meetings today.
Paulding County Board of Education members could make several changes—mostly minor—to board policies during their meeting this morning. Nine board policies could be rescinded as officials aim to trim duplicate language from the rulebooks. The policies deal with paraprofessionals. “Our board policy had divided paraprofessionals from other classified personnel, but paraprofessionals are classified employees,” said Clark Maggart, the district’s executive director of Human Resources. “Back in 2001, for whatever reason, they created a duplicate policy, and they had a policy for classified employees and a policy for paraprofessionals, but the policies were identical. The Georgia School Boards Association has always recommended that whenever …
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Lynn Hubbard
8:18 am on Wednesday, October 24, 2012
how does this help support a level playing field? Many kids don't have smart phones or tablets. my son is one of them. more ›