Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Mark Boehlke, who has worked in the Shorewood School District since 2006, said he will leave at the end of the school year to serve as assistant superintendent of business and operational services in his hometown of Sheboygan.
Shorewood schools business manager Mark Boehlke will leave the district next month to take a position with the Sheboygan Area School District. Boehlke, who has worked in the district since 2006, will leave Shorewood at the end of the school year to begin a new role as assistant superintendent of business and operational services in Sheboygan, according to a press release from the Shorewood School District. Boehlke said he's sad to leave Shorewood, but excited about the prospect of working closer to home. He said he commutes daily from Sheboygan to Shorewood for work. “I have truly enjoyed my time working for the district and I have had the privilege to work with so many great people over the years,” Boehlke said in a press release. “As …
Friday, May 10, 2013
Shorewood schools will come alive with color as art students show off their art skills, during a week-long celebration of the arts.
Shorewood schools will come alive with color as the district kicks of a week of events celebrating the arts. Events start Monday from 4 to 5:30 p.m. with a gallery night at Shorewood Intermediate School, 3830 N. Morris Blvd., featuring work by eighth-grade, advanced-art students. AP Art Night opens Tuesday night from 5:30 to 8 at Shorewood High School, 1701 E. Capitol Dr. The event will feature a gallery of work created by the school’s most advanced artists. At 6:30 p.m., the students will talk about their work during a slide-show presentation in the youth center before heading back to the high school art rooms for refreshments. On Wednesday, Atwater Elementary, 2100 E. Capitol Dr., will host the Art Extravaganza Art Show from 6 to 8 p.…
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Catch up on Shorewood Patch's top stories in April, which include stories about a former school secretary accused of stealing, Shorewood High School named top high school in Wisconsin and an armed robbery suspect.
Catch up on what's going on in your community by reading our top stories in April. This month our top stories include:
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Over the course of 13 years, federal investigators say the secretary stole more than $300,000 and used it to buy TVs, household items and vacations for her family.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Superintendent Martin Lexmond said no services to students were limited, changed or compromised as a result of the embezzlement of more than $300,000 in special education funds.
Former Shorewood secretary Donna Sternke created convincing, bogus invoices and found a way to circumvent the approval process, avoiding suspicion over the 13 years she allegedly stole $310,000 in special education funds from the district, officials say. “The district worked with three independent auditing companies from 1998 through 2011,” Lexmond said, in a prepared statement Tuesday. “During this time, each company performed an annual audit of the district’s financial accounts, including the funds Ms. Sternke embezzled from, but did not find anything suspicious as it appears Ms. Sternke created false invoices and receipts that were very convincing.” Sternke was charged last week in federal court with issuing unauthorized checks …
Saturday, April 13, 2013
See how the number of students per staff member in the Shorewood School District stacks up against nearby districts and the state.
One thing that always comes up when districts talk about laying off staff, is the student-staff ratio. In general, according to the non-profit group Class Size Matters, a lower ratio is considered beneficial, providing for smaller class sizes and giving students more opportunity for attention from teachers. There were 870,470 students enrolled in Wisconsin public and charter schools in the 2011-12 school year. Those schools employed 3,497 administrators, 31,532 aides and support staff, and 65,446 licensed staff members. (All employment numbers are full-time equivalents; meaning two half-time staff members would count as one.) Average staff-student ratios are as follows: 249 students per administrator, 28 students per aide/support staff, …
Friday, April 12, 2013
Over the course of 13 years, federal investigators say the secretary stole more than $300,000 and used it to buy TVs, household items and vacations for her family.
SHOREWOOD, WI -- A former Shorewood School District secretary has been charged with embezzling more than $300,000 in federal special education funds to buy TVs, household items and vacations for her family. Donna Sternke was charged this week in federal court with issuing unauthorized checks totaling $310,263 over 13 years — from January 1998 to June 2011. In June 2011, the district discovered the unexplained purchase of gift cards for Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells, and she was allowed to resign from her position, according to documents filed in federal court. In October 2012, she admitted to federal investigators to stealing the money. And this week she reached a plea agreement with prosecutors. If convicted, Sternke could face a …
The district will begin collecting signatures Monday, on a letter, and signature pages voicing opposition to Gov. Scott Walker's 2013-15 budget.
The Shorewood School District begin its grassroots campaign against Gov. Scott Walker's 2013-15 budget proposal on Monday when it invites residents to join the effort. The district will begin collecting signatures Monday on a letter voicing opposition to Walker's budget. Signature pages will be available at each of the district’s schools in the main office and the letter itself will be available for signatures in the superintendent office, 1701 E. Capitol Dr. On Tuesday, during a two-hour work session, the School Board, district administrators and teachers drafted a letter addressed to Walker, state Rep. Sandy Pasch, state Sen. Lena Taylor and members of the state Legislature’s Education and Joint Finance Committees, along with a fact …
Thursday, April 11, 2013
The 2013-2014 school calendar has been set, which means you can start planning your family's vacations for winter break and spring break.
The Shorewood School Board has set the district’s 2013-14 calendar. School will begin Sept. 3, the day after Labor Day, and will wrap up on June 12, 2014. Winter break is scheduled from Dec. 23 to Jan. 1, and spring break is scheduled from March 31 to April 4. Spring break falls on the same week for all North Shore schools, except for Shorewood, according to the School Board. The calendar was initially approved Feb. 12, but brought back Tuesday to make minor revisions. That's when officials realized other districts inadvertently chose the same week for spring break. In February, school officials discussed at length aligning spring break with area schools to avoid hardships for families with children in different districts. Superintendent …
Check out the summer activity guide for fun things to do this summer in Shorewood.
Summer is coming and that means recreation. The Shorewood Recreation Department has published its summer 2013 activity guide, which includes everything from a downtown paddling and kayaking program for adults to a rocketry program for the kids. Residents can begin registering online on Monday and non-residents on April 19. Registration by fax, drop box, mail, telphone or walk-in starts on April 29. The Shorewood Recreation and Community Services Department is located at 1701 E. Capitol Drive, Shorewood, WI 53211.
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12:31 am on Sunday, April 28, 2013
There was a board member who recently resigned, who, after the days/minutes fiasco, repeatedly urged McCann to compile a checklist of Wisconsin statutes applicable to schools and ensure that school administrators knew the statutes that applied to them. McCann wouldn't do it. None of the other board members supported that board member's efforts to get the district administrators knowledgable about… more ›