_______________________________________________________________________ A piece in E-City Beat last week got me thinking about our local teachers. Most of our Great Falls teachers are really good, honest, hard-working folks who just want to make a difference in the lives of kids and our community. Unfortunately sometimes our teachers don’t get enough thanks for what they do for…
_______________________________________________________________________ Yesterday a concerned reader sent E-City Beat some screenshots of an exchange on Facebook involving a teacher in the Great Falls Public Schools District who uses the FB handle of Tricia Henneberg which clearly says she is an employee of GFPS. Henneberg is Tricia Loucks, listed in the District directory as a Special Ed…
_______________________________________________________________________ Is Great Falls Public Schools rewarding failure when it promotes administrators to higher positions? In the business world, some would suggest that failure is part of the creative process, and it should be rewarded, and encouraged. Why? Because the fear of failure is an inhibiting force that stifles the presenting of new ideas according…
_______________________________________________________________________ All the evidence indicates that the truth fairy made a visit to the Great Falls Public Schools Budget Committee last week when they recommended that no levy be placed before the voters as part of the May 7th school district election. But before you feel free to spend that would-be tax increase, please remember…
_______________________________________________________________________ There are 58,000 stories in this naked city, a few less than in New York City, which was the location for the 1948 Academy Award winning film, and later television series, ‘The Naked City’. The film was shot partially in documentary style on location in the streets of New York. According to Time magazine,…
_______________________________________________________________________ Today E-City Beat received the following letter written to the Great Falls Public Schools Board of Trustees. We are respecting the letter writer’s request to remain anonymous. “To whom it may concern, I have just called my son out of classes for today due to dangerously low temperatures. This is something I should not…
_______________________________________________________________________ After a few anxious days of presumably running around like chickens with their heads cut off, local school district administrators concluded that they needed to further explain, or make excuses for, the horrendous graduation rates report issued by the Montana office of Public Instruction; Great Falls High School 75.8% and CM Russell High School…
_______________________________________________________________________ Today, the Tribune reported what some people learned last weekend; the Great Falls Public School District has only one remaining candidate for the new superintendent’s position. With the assistance of the Montana School Boards Association, (for which GFPS payed MSBA $8,000 of taxpayer money), the field of seven applicants required to respond by the…
_______________________________________________________________________ Great Falls High School 75.8% graduation rate? Are you kidding me? The numbers are actually worse than what we previously reported in an E-City Beat article. According to the Great Falls Tribune this morning, the Montana Office of Public Instruction announced that the combined graduation rate for the Great Falls Public School District is 80.08%….
_______________________________________________________________________ Will the new GFPS Superintendent be the same old, same old? Recently the USA Today Network, aka the Great Falls Tribune, reported that a “Superintendent ‘Meet and Greet’ set Sunday”. The field of applicants has been reduced from seven to three, and the finalists will be presented to the public at the Paris Gibson…