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RACINE — Racine Christian School, in partnership with Children of the Promise, has provided furniture and supplies to assist Lagosette Christian School in Haiti.

Pete Van Der Puy, head of school, along with former Board member Tim Joosse, disassembled and packed 80 desks into a trailer to bring to Willmar, Minn., to be loaded into a shipping container headed for Cap Haitien, Haiti where the supplies will then be brought to Lagosette to equip classrooms.

Additionally, RCS donated 17 boxes of books to help the school open a new library.

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Watch Now: Zach and Val Fishbain co-founded Spread the Love and this year sponsored five $1,000 scholarships for students from Racine Unified’s three largest high schools with a focus on community stewardship.

Lori Nasci was tired of arresting children. So she became a teacher. Not all teachers go straight from being a student to leading a classroom. Get to know four Racine teachers who followed an atypical path back to the classroom.

Multiple schools have been demolished already. As for building new schools, there aren’t any shovels in the ground nor is there a schedule for when construction might begin.

SOMERS — The University of Wisconsin-Parkside will honor eight individuals with the Distinguished Alumni Award in a ceremony on Friday, July 1…

RACINE — The Academies of Racine Horlick High School candidates for graduation in 2022 are:

PARK HIGH CLASS OF 1960 will be having a 62nd Class Reunion and 80th Birthday Celebration, which will be held Friday and Saturday, July 29-30.…

Former employees and students at Giese Elementary School can take home a piece of the building they used to work at and attend.

BURLINGTON — Burlington High School’s 161st graduating class received their diplomas on June 10.

The Burlington Area School District is being sued by an area woman for closing a meeting that had become unruly. Muskego-Norway is facing a community petition after its school board didn’t approve a book about the World War II-era internment of Japanese people in the U.S. for an English class for unclear reasons. In February, Racine Unified was one of an untold number of school boards nationwide facing a bizarre threat from a community member who wanted to file claims against the school boards “surety bonds,” even though that was a legal impossibility.

Those are three local examples of many that are parts of a growing phenomenon led by adults from across the political spectrum who feel they are being shut out of decision-making about what’s going on inside their community’s schools, even when they don’t have kids attending the schools.

While these situations are unavoidable for those who attend and watch school board meetings, and unavoidable for the public officials whose email addresses and phone numbers are public, it’s almost impossible to tell how much of a difference the efforts are making in increasing transparency, protecting young people from harm or even influencing education in classrooms.

St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1972

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