The James Logan Courier

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Happy Birthday to our 10th President, John Tyler, born this day in 1790.

Summer School Applications Now Available! Students, do you need to make up a failed class, or improve a pesky “D” you may have on your transcript? Well, summer school applications are now available in the counseling center. Adult School offerings will be limited this summer, so be sure to submit your signed summer school application by April 30th for preferred placement and registration. We have some interesting new offerings available this year, so check it out. See your counselor, Mr. Brar or Mr. Smith for more information.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

Akur Varadarajan, who has more than 15 years of extensive experience in budgeting, financial analysis and school business operations, has been hired as Chief Business Officer of the New Haven Unified School District. The Board of Education confirmed his appointment Tuesday night.

Mr. Varadarajan, Assistant Superintendent of Business Service for the Salinas City Elementary School District for the past three years, will start work in New Haven on April 5.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

Due to the continued volatility of state funding for education, which has forced the District to issue layoff notices to teachers, classified and administrative employees for the 2010-11 school year, the Board of Education on Tuesday night voted to postpone the reopening of Barnard-White Middle School.

The Board approved a staff recommendation to postpone the reopening until such time that financial projections show that the District has the necessary resources to balance the budget without additional layoffs and cuts to programs such as co-curricular activities, site administrative ratios and class-size reduction. Postponement also reduces the possibility that the District would be reopening the middle school at the same time it may be forced to consider -- as outlined in the budget assumptions adopted March 2 -- the closing of an elementary school.

From wikipedia:
William Johnson (March 18, 1901–1970) was an African American painter born in Florence, South Carolina.

In 1944 his wife, Holche Krake, a Danish textile artist, died from breast cancer. To deal with his grief, he took work in a Navy Yard, and in 1946 left for Denmark to be with his wife's family. He soon fell ill himself, from the effects of advanced syphilis, and returned to New York in 1947 to enter the Central Islip State Hospital on Long Island, where he spent the remainder of his life. He stopped painting in 1956 and died in 1970.

See examples of William Johnson's work, free from artcyclopedia.com.