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By all accounts, the start to the 2014-2015 school year has been an exhilarating one. Thanks to the generous support of our District’s taxpayers, a new elementary school is now serving students on the city’s north side. Some of our District’s Health Science Academy students traveled to the Pine Ridge reservation as part of Gundersen’s Global Partners Program. A new charter high school, the Seven Rivers Community High School opened at the Hogan Administrative Center. Our District’s Construction Academy has taken on a new design-build project to rebuild a home in the Hogan-Wygant neighborhood. Our high school’s Project Lead the Way programs have been re-certified. For the second consecutive year, Northside Elementary School was named a Wisconsin School of Recognition for Beating the Odds. Last week, more than 1200 area seventh and eighth graders, with generous support from the Women’s Fund and the Gundersen Medical Foundation on Excellence, participated in a full day retreat about self-image and personal leadership. More than 3000 parents participated in parent-teacher conferences. Family literacy nights are taking place in each of our elementary schools, strengthening the home-to-school connection. Recently, the La Crosse Chamber Chorale performed original music with lyrics written by our students in their work from the compassion project.
These are your public schools at work — immersed in the community and doing great things in support of our community’s children and their families. As your superintendent of schools, I thank you for your support, and I hope you will join me this week, American Education Week, in thanking our great educators for their un-waving commitment and dedication to our children and our community.
Randy Nelson
Superintendent of Schools””
