Have you received your ballot for the Nov. 8 General Election? To assist you in making informed choices for the school board race, members of the QUEST/PAGE ABC Board developed a brief list of questions for the Puyallup School Board candidates. We wanted to gain a better understanding of each candidate’s stance on highly capable [...]
Who is ABC? ABC, the Academic Booster Club, is a group of students, parents, teachers, and administrators who have joined together to help meet the unique needs of our highly capable children. We provide support for teachers in the QUEST and PAGE programs by helping to pay for continuing education on topics related to gifted [...]
We encourage you to lend support by volunteering! Many opportunities for involvement exist in the Academic Booster Club. We have a need for parents to serve on the board and to help with several committees. Whether you have a little or a lot of time to offer, we can use your help. For information please [...]
For the 2011-2012 school year forward, Academic Booster Club has decided to purchase SMART Boards for the 5/6th grade classrooms that do not have them (Pope, Brouillet, and Maplewood) as we believe the 5/6th grade curriculum, particularly math, will be enhanced using SMART Boards. The first SMART Board has been ordered and ABC will purchase [...]
Thank you for participating in the 2011 Academic Booster Club On-Line Silent Auction! Winning bid amounts are listed below the items, and winning bidders are being contacted via e-mail. In more than one case, two identical high bids for an item were received, so the first high bid received won the item. Items that did [...]
The relative calm in our advocacy efforts is about to come to an end. Thursday will bring a new state financial forecast, and we expect to see the first budget proposal from the Senate Democrats shortly thereafter. You may recall that the Governor proposed eliminating all state funding for highly capable programming in her 2011 – [...]
