
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 11, 1994                   TAG: 9405110100
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: PULASKI                                LENGTH: Short

BOARD GETS REPORT ON INNOVATIVE SCHOOL PROGRAMS

The Pulaski County School Board will hear reports tonight on a variety of innovative programs under way at some of its schools.

Principals from Northwood and Claremont elementary schools will report on how education strategies under continuous progress programs have worked this year, and on their plans under the programs for next year.

Two staff members from Dublin Elementary School will report on plans for its new math/science/technology demonstration project in the 1994-95 school year, including staff training, a description of the curriculum and organization of the project.

Walt Shannon, the school system's business manager, will brief the board on a proposed school-based decision procedure as part of its site-based management emphasis.

Superintendent Bill Asbury will give information on the recent Virginia Supreme Court ruling against the Coalition for Equity in Educational Funding, of which Pulaski County is a member. The coalition of mostly-rural school districts had been seeking a decision requiring a more equal basis of funding school systems.

The board also will consider its summer school program and schedule, and a 1994-95 school calendar.

by CNB