FARMINGTON
School naming committee seeks members The Farmington school district is looking for residents who are not parents of students to join a committee that will help choose new names for three schools.
When the new Farmington High School opens next year, three schools in the district will be put to new uses. The old high school will become a middle school.; both that building and Middle School West, which now serves grades 8 and 9, will house grades 6-8. Middle School East will become the district's fifth elementary school.
The naming committee will include school principals, six parents and five non-parent residents. The group will meet at 4 p.m. Oct. 8 to organize. Community members, including district staff and students, may submit naming ideas from Oct. 20 to Nov. 2.
TO APPLY TO JOIN THE NAMING COMMITTEE, CONTACT STEVE DIBB AT 651-463-5015 or sdibb@farmington.k12.mn.us today.
New Prague
Task force will consider district space needs A task force of nearly 30 people will meet Tuesday night to talk about long-range facility needs for the New Prague school district.
The group, which represents a cross-section of New Prague, Elko New Market and Lonsdale residents, will use enrollment projections to help craft a recommendation it will present to the school board in January, said Superintendent Craig Menozzi. The district is unlikely to build any new schools in the next few years, but it may need more space for things like athletic fields in the next decade, he said.
The group will meet at 7 p.m. in the lecture hall of New Prague High School. The event is open to the public.
NORTHFIELD
Carleton gets recognition as green campus For the second straight year, Carleton College earned a top grade in an independent evaluation of campus and endowment sustainability.
The school was one of 15 colleges and universities nationwide, and the only one in the Upper Midwest, to receive an A- on the College Sustainability Report Card, released by the Sustainable Endowment Institute.
Carleton and other schools were judged in categories including food and recycling, transportation, and investment priorities. The report card looks at colleges and universities with the 300 biggest endowments in the United States and Canada.
Rosemount-Apple Valley-Eagan
Eastview students earn national recognition Two Eastview High School seniors were named semifinalists last week in the National Achievement Scholarship Program, which awards scholarships to promising black students in the United States.
Sheena Mbachu and Semira Mohammed were among more than 1,600 semifinalists chosen nationwide in the competition, which is run by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Semifinalists earned their status with high scores on the Preliminary SAT, a standardized test through which more than 150,000 juniors requested consideration in the contest.
Mbachu and Mohammed will have the chance to go on to compete for about 800 scholarships worth more than $2.6 million that will be awarded next spring.
Diamond Path teacher gets award Tom Turk, a fifth-grade teacher at Diamond Path Elementary in Apple Valley, was named teacher of the year by the Arc of Minnesota, a private non-profit group that supports people with developmental disabilities.
The Arc will present Turk's award at its annual banquet Oct. 11 in Mankato.
Sarah Lemagie
