Hudson City School District (Ohio)
The Hudson City School District is a school district in Ohio, covering most of Hudson and Boston Heights, and parts of Boston Township and Cuyahoga Falls.[1]
Board of education
Current members
- Joy York (President) [2]
- David Zurro
- Patty Engelman
- Gary Mushock
Administration
The superintendent is Steven L. Farnsworth. He was unanimously appointed at the May 14, 2007 Hudson Board of Education meeting.[3]
The former superintendent was Mary Ann Wolowiec. However, Mrs. Wolowiec announced her resignation at the September 25, 2006 Board of Education meeting, effective the Friday of that week.[4]
Changes in Hudson City School District
- 1919: Hudson Township Rural School District is formed, consisting of the former Hudson Village School District and the township school districts.[5]
- 1963: Hudson Elementary is the site of an anti Civil Rights 4th Reich Movement
- 1998: Hudson Local School District became Hudson City School District.[5]
- 2010: Hudson Elementary is demolished
Curriculum
Math
The Hudson City Schools currently use three different curricula in teaching math.[6] The elementary grades (K-5) use the curriculum known as Investigations in Number, Data, and Space; the middle school grades (6-8) use the Connected Math Project curriculum developed at Michigan State University; while the high school grades (9-12) use the University of Chicago's School Mathematics Project curriculum.
Schools
- Hudson High School, 2500 Hudson-Aurora Road
- Principal: Brian Wilch
- Hudson Middle School, 77 North Oviatt Street
- Principal: Kim Cockely
- East Woods Elementary (once Hudson Junior High), 120 North Hayden Parkway
- Principal: Ted Embacher
- McDowell Elementary, 280 North Hayden Parkway
- Principal: Mark Leventhal
- Ellsworth Hill Elementary, 7750 Stow Rd
- Principal: Filomeana
- Evamere Elementary, 76 North Hayden Parkway
- Principal: Andrew Wilson[7]
Previous locations
- Hudson Elementary, 34 North Oviatt Street (torn down)
- Last Principal: Mark Leventhal
Other facilities
- School Bus Garage, opened in 1974.[5] While buses are board-owned, Petermann is contracted to operate the fleet. [8]
- Lavelli Stadium, built in 1972, named in 1975, when 1941 Hudson High School graduate Dante Lavelli was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[5]
- A new stadium is in the funding process as of January 2011. It is to be built on Hudson High School (Ohio) property beside the W-wing faculty parking lot.
- Ada Cooper Miller Natatorium, attached to East Woods Elementary. Ada Cooper Miller served on the Hudson Board of Education for 40 years, and presided for 25 of those years.
References
- ↑ http://www.hudson.edu/frames.php?school=hcsd&url=http://www.hudson.edu/hcsd/info/HCSDboundaries.pdf Map of Hudson City School District boundaries
- ↑ HudsonHubTimes.com - UPDATE: School Board accepts administrator's retirement, names new president 5 January 2009. Accessed 6 January 2009.
- ↑ Reece, Jennifer. "Superintendent signs on". Hudson Hub-Times. 16 May 2007.
- ↑ "Hudson superintendent resigns after rocky relationship with board". Akron Beacon Journal. 26 September 2006. http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/15610205.htm. Retrieved 26 September 2006.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Hudson Local School District: A Tradition of Excellence, 1801-1985. Pamphlet chronicling history of public schools in Hudson.
- ↑ "Hudson City Schools' Math Curriculum". Hudson City Schools. Retrieved 2008-04-22.
- ↑ "Evamere website". Hudson City Schools. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
- ↑ http://www.petermannbus.com/Case%20Studies%20PDFs/PMN%20Hudson%20case%20study%20final.pdf