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The Hudson School District continues to grow as the first day of school draws closer. At a recent Board of Education meeting, district Deputy Director Nancy Sweet said registrations at the elementary level are up from last year, particularly in kindergarten and first grade. While...

The Hudson Board of Education gave approval to a series of bids to complete a $2 million addition to the Hudson Middle School. Work begins this month with the project scheduled to be completed by the start of second semester in January 2011. The board also found out that the district's...

The term SMART goals has been around the Hudson School District for the past few years and has been the driving force behind a lot of the work undertaken by teachers and administrators at all levels. At last week's school board meeting, it appeared that work has paid off and paid...

The Hudson Board of Education got its first look at the 2010-11 district budget at its meeting last week. Stressing that all the figures presented were preliminary, Director of Financial Services Tim Erickson said it looks like the budget will increase by about 6.3 percent from...

The Hudson Board of Education approved a 5 cent increase in school lunch prices at last week's July school board meeting. There will be no increase in the cost of milk. Director of Financial Services Tim Erickson told the board that the increased cost was necessary to keep the school...

The Hudson School District will get $1 million in an interest-free bond to use toward the cost of an addition at the Hudson Middle School. Superintendent Mary Bowen-Eggebraaten made the announcement at last week's Hudson School Board meeting. The project was approved by the school...

The Hudson School District and the teachers union apparently will not release a joint statement that was expected after the ratification of the new contract. Prior to the contract vote in late May, both district Deputy Director Nancy Sweet and local union representative and HHS...

The Hudson Board of Education approved a contract with Hoffman of Appleton to design and manage the construction of a $2 million addition to the Hudson Middle School to address overcrowding at the school. According to the contract, the district will pay design and architecture fees...

The Hudson Board of Education approved another round of salary increases at a special meeting June 17. School district coordinators and supervisors received an average increase of 4.69 percent for the 2010-11 school year. All the employees in this category had their salaries frozen...

An editorial regarding teacher raises and the state's Qualified Economic Offer (QEO) in the June 17 edition of the Star-Observer contained inaccurate information. First, after the elimination of the Qualified Economic Offer (QEO), the editorial stated that Wisconsin school teacher...

The teachers in the Hudson School District will get a 6.86 percent increase in wages and benefits for the 2010-11 school year. The new contract was approved at Tuesday night's Board of Education meeting by a vote of 4-2. Board members who voted in favor of the new deal were president...

In last week's story regarding salary increases for Hudson School District administrators, the Star-Observer reported that the district has added administrative positions to the staff in recent years including managers of human resources and financial services, as well as a communications...

Despite an almost 5 percent increase in salary for the upcoming school year, the wages of the Hudson School District's top administrators are only at or below the average of comparable districts in the area according to District Deputy Director Nancy Sweet. The administrators will...