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Troy Library shows off end-of-summer programming New offerings include fantasy football league BY BRENDAN LOSINSKI blosinski@candgnews.com
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Members of the Troy community expressed their disagreement with the Troy Board of Education following a decision to alter the honors course for middle school math classes.
Community group calling for recall of school board members after curriculum disagreement
A disagreement over the Troy School District’s curriculum may escalate into recall efforts for four members of the district’s school board. The conflict began in February, when the board began discussing proposed changes to the middle school math curriculum. Previously, the curriculum split students into either an honors course or a standard course beginning in the sixth grade. The new plan would keep the students in the same courses until the start of eighth grade, when they could decide whether they wanted to take the honors route or not.
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A sidewalk chalk program will be offered by the Troy Public Library for children on Saturday, Aug. 12.
“People often move to Troy because of the good schools. We don’t want to lose that by ‘dumbing down’ our curriculum,” said Alex Karpowitsch, an organizer with Keep Troy Honors, a group which was created to maintain the old curriculum. “We want to let the public decide what policies they want their community to take.” A petition was begun by some members of Keep Troy Honors to recall four board members, Gary Hauff, Nicole L. Wilson, Karl Schmidt, and Nancy Philippart. A total of 8,000 signatures for each recalled board member would be needed by Aug. 4 for the recall efforts for all four candidates to make it onto ballots in the autumn. “The vote to adopt the new curriculum was six in fa-
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The Troy Public Library is promoting its new programs for August and inviting the public to join them before the summer ends. Connie Doherty, the library’s head of adult information services, hopes the public will drop by the library or go to its website to see if there’s something that interests them. “We always have programs going on and starting up,” she remarked. “There’s always something coming up.” For the history-minded patron, there is an upcoming presentation on the historic Hamtramck Stadium.