ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, November 15, 1996 TAG: 9611150028
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-14 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: COMPILED BY PAUL DELLINGER AND LISA APPLEGATE.
* Two key staff positions have been filled by the Pulaski County School Board, with Jane Goette named coordinator of the county's talented and gifted program and Max Cecil, coordinator of pupil personnel services. Goette, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin with a master's in education from the University of Massachusetts, was an elementary teacher in Colorado, Louisiana and Montgomery County before becoming coordinator of Montgomery's programs for the gifted. She succeeds Nancy Ballinger, who left the Pulaski County position for a similar one in Montgomery County.
Cecil, a graduate of East Tennessee State University with a master of science from Radford University, worked previously at a school rehabilitation center, as a job site coordinator for New River Valley Workshop, a probation and parole officer with the Division of Community & Prevention Services, and institutional counselor at the Natural Bridge Learning Center.
* Upcoming:
* The Montgomery County School Board is scheduled to decide whether high school students will face tougher graduation requirements at its meeting Tuesday. Superintendent Herman Bartlett proposed the changes, which would require high school students take more math and social studies classes to graduate with advanced degrees. Some board members have said they worry students would sacrifice vocational, fine arts and foreign language electives to include the new requirements.
The board might also decide how to deal with construction bids for the proposed elementary school in Riner, which came in $2 million higher than expected. Two weeks ago, the board asked school administrators and the building architects to find cost-cutting solutions, like using different materials.
The board will meet at its office on Junkin Street in Christiansburg, beginning at 6:30 p.m.
* Montgomery County residents can speak to the School Board about next year's budget at 7 p.m. Thursday at Christiansburg High School. This will be the only opportunity to speak to the board about school needs before it begins to develop its proposed budget.
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