November 2024

There was a party 30 years in the making at NMC Health recently - celebrating the payment of the initial bonds used to build the medical center issued in 1994.

It’s not often high school students are given the opportunity to tour a nation-wide fast-food restaurant chain’s corporate headquarters, but that’s what Les Padzensky did for students last Thursday.Padzensky was recently named the Butler Community College’s, (BCC), Director of the Redler Institute of Culinary Art.

From pandemic screen-learning to Education School disregard for content, American schools are rapidly reducing the learning required for achieving a high school diploma or a college degree.To previously accommodate the extremely rare super-student we previously called a “Doogie Howser,” or today a “Young Sheldon,” we allowed those rare individuals to jump grades in elementary and high school and occasionally graduate college before they were eligible to drive.Then two decades ago, the “dual credit” system allowed high school juniors and seniors to go next door to sit in genuine college courses on a local campus, earning bona fide college credit that also counted toward high school graduation.