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Naming Of Principals' Aides Delayed

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21
Month
August
Year
1969
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The appointfnent of n e vsj assistant principáis at the Anij Arbor Public Schools' four juni ior highs was delayed until next" week because the school board had not been apprised of the appointees in advance. A total of 31 new appointtnents to the professional staff ivas approved. This number includes two new teachers for the emotionally disturbed at Forsythe and Scarlett Junior high schools. These instructors plus others will teach at the1 junior highs' new learning laboratories, designed for youngsters with learning problems. o o The Ann Arbor Board of Education approved an additional expenditure of $2,175 to pay for road improvements at Hurón High School. The board had approved a maximum of $15,000 on July 30, but the bids for the project were higher than the city entineer's estimate. The city and school board are eaoh jpaying for about half of the nrnippt. Sooren Gozmanian, plannere x p e d i t e r f or the p u b 1 i c schools, told the trustees there lis an "outside chance" the road Iwidening and improvements might be done by the time school starts. o o A tour of the new Martin ILuther King Jr. Elementary School, located on Waldenwood Dr., was taken by the trustees during their 5:30 p.m. briefing session yesterday. The school (which features bright colors throughout) will house 500 to Ï550 children and is completely I air-conditioned. n ■■ " The quarterly finance report and the auditor's report were approved. I o o The National Bank and Trust Co wasapprovedastne deposory fo? the June, 1969 bond issue for the city's fifth iunior high school. o o A school tax levy for Dec. 1, 1969, of 32.55 milis for operations and 3.42 milis for debt service for taxpayers outside the city of Ann Arbor, ató a lew of half that amount ior city residents of the Ann Arbor School District, was -approved by the board. Half of the school taxes were already collected Erom city residents tuis sum- mer. o o Four candidates íor director! posts in the Michigan Associa-i tion of School Boards werel Sed by the trustees. Theyl are Andrew. W. Perdue of DroiDrrbertJJaJ [di5e of Port Huron, Mrs.i Dorothy Blakeslee of Benton Harbor and Glenn H. Wolf e of] Macomb County. o o Trustee Cecil W. Warner pro-J posed during the briefing session that the board investígate) the feasibility of beginning a Consolidated central purchasing operation. Warner said the operations would involve those school districts currently particip ating as members of the 6A League and the South Central Conference - Ann Arbor Laning East Lansmg. Batüe Creek, Kalamazoo and Adnan. "The objective of this consoüdation is to obtain pnce discounts through quanüty purchasing," Warner said. Warner's suggestions will be put on the agenda for acüon in the near future. president Harold J. Locket and Trustees Richard M. Woo nd Henry Johnson were absent or last night's 6%-hour meetng Vice President Charles H. Good presided at thesession in Lockett's absence. o o Two gifts were accepted by ' the trustees: a linotype machine for use at Huron High fromMaxweUAUen of the Maxwell Printing Co. of Plymouth, and a Sony video tape recorder] X camera and momtor piusa TWfmsn Electronic Readmg Laboratory with Mark IV pro-l ector and audio visual readingl programs, for use at Forsythe Junior High. The latter gift was1 purchased by the Forsythe Junior High School Student Council. _

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