POLL: Should Middle, High School Students Share a Bus?

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Beachwood City Schools has proposed busing middle and high school students together beginning this fall. The recommendation is part of a revamped plan Beachwood City Schools Superintendent Rich Markwardt proposed to the Board of Education Monday that he said would serve the students better while raising efficiency for the district’s transportation department. Do you think it's a good idea? Take our poll, and tell us more in the comments!

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Nikki Ferrell

9:42 am on Thursday, June 28, 2012

Yes, Lynn - the district asked parents and it looks like there will be 72 next year.   more ›

Beachwood Middle, High School Students Could Ride the Bus Together

Beachwood City Schools proposes revamped bus system for all schools with combined routes, revisions to bell schedules, longer Bryden day

Beachwood’s middle school and high school students could be sharing the same bus next year. Our Facebook fans heard about this first! Beachwood City Schools Superintendent Rich Markwardt proposed to the Board of Education Monday changes to this school year’s bus routes that he said would serve the students better while raising efficiency for the district’s transportation department. READ: Markwardt's Memo to the Community The changes would also lengthen Bryden Elementary School’s day by nearly an hour and change the other schools’ arrival and dismissal times by a few minutes, as displayed in the photo to the right. Markwardt acknowledged the rift between the bus drivers and the school district that peaked in 2010 when the school contracted…

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Beachwood Middle School Students Advance to State Writing Competition

Tabitha Niederer and Molly Rosen placed at Power of the Pen regional competition

Beachwood Students Score High at Destination Imagination

Half of elementary and middle school teams place first

Beachwood Students Excel in Debate, Math, Writing

Check out recent accomplishments from Beachwood students at the district website

Spring is a time for academic competitions, and Beachwood City Schools students have been raking in the hardware with wins at state and regional competitions. Like Jessica Gill, who, as a Beachwood High School junior, took home the school's first-ever state championship trophy from the Ohio High School Speech and Debate League State Tournament. Or Beachwood Middle School's math whizzes, the MATHCOUNTS team, who placed fourth at regionals. Or Molly Rosen, who took first in Power of the Pen (a extracurricular close to my own heart), leading her team to a fourth-place ranking. Click the links above for each story.

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BMS Program Stresses Respect For Peers

Challenge Day comes to Beachwood Middle School

Beachwood City Schools' 7th- and 8th-graders spent a day learning a powerful message last week: respect each other. "You don't really know what's going on with other kids outside of school," said Cameron Umpleby, a 7th-grader who participated in the day-long group seminar that, by late afternoon, felt like a pep rally for respect. Seated in the gymnasium at Beachwood Middle School with the over 100 kids in the 7th-grade class, students took turns at the mic at the end of the day, thanking friends, apologizing to kids they had hurt or pointing out something important that they had learned during the day while their peers held their hands in the air in the "love" sign. After each student's turn, their peers clapped and cheered.  "One of the …

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Back-to-School in Beachwood Is Easy as Point and Click

Beachwood City Schools launched a new site today that puts all your back-to-school info in one place, offers webpages for every teacher

If you have a child in Beachwood City Schools, you can expect the annual information packet to arrive in the mail in the next couple of days. But this year, mail personnel will be thanking the district for lightening their loads. Instead of the 15 to 20 pages of forms, information, lunch menus and calendars parents are used to getting, the packet will be three or four pages long and include a letter from the school principal directing them to the district’s brand new website. At first glance, the site looks very similar to the website users saw yesterday. But the new features are there: namely, a “back-to-school” section that has the volume of information that has been mailed out to every student in the district each year and a couple …

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Get Out: Beachwood High Student Performs at The Grog Shop and Screening of 'Family in Captivity'

Plan your week around these activities for kids and adults

BEACHWOOD HIGH SCHOOL’S OWN CHLOE HERNANE PERFORMS AT THE GROG SHOP Where/When: The Grog Shop/ Sunday, June 26 at 7 p.m. Why Go: Chloe Hernane, who graduated earlier this month from Beachwood High School, will sing with rapper Lil’ Marv in her second live performance there and the last before she goes to The Ohio State University in the fall. Uptowne Buddha, another local hip hop group, will also perform. Price: $5 FAMILY IN CAPTIVITY SCREENING Where/When: Mandel Center’s Stonehill Auditorium/ Monday, June 27 at 7 p.m. Why Go: This documentary follows the family of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who on June 25, 2006, was captured by Palestinian Hamas, a group listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. Department of State. Proceeds …

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Viewfinder: 2011 Spinney Awards for Educational Excellence

275 students get accolades from the city's board of education

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