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Finneytown Local Schools Promotes Long-time Elementary Teacher to Teaching and Learning Coordinator

For 23 years, Troy Edie has been an educator in the Finneytown Local School District. This summer, he was promoted into the position of Teaching and Learning Coordinator for the district, a role he’s been preparing for his whole career.  As a graduate of The Ohio State University with both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Elementary Education, Edie has been teaching in Finneytown his entire career since being hired to teach 2nd grade in 1996.  Since then he has …

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The Start of the Superintendent Blog

Hello Finneytown Fans and Favorites, Terri Noe, superintendent, here with my first ever attempt to blog. Thank you to everyone who came to our Forum last week to here an update on new facilities. Also thank you to all who let me know you couldn’t make it but will check the website for information and want to be involved going forward. As I stated at the forum, the Finneytown Board of Education voted in June to move forward to look …

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FT forun & BOE mtg 6/25

Finneytown Forum Meeting 6/25

Join us for a Finneytown Forum and Special Board of Education meeting on new buildings! Tuesday, June 25th at 6:30 pm in the Performing Arts Center, 8916 Fontainebleau Terrace We will be updating on the flurry of activity happening at Finneytown Local Schools, and what a bond levy will mean for you and your families. Learn more about the special opportunity that we have available to us and how the state is going to pay 60% of the base cost …

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Finneytown Local Schools to Place Bond Levy on November Ballot

Watch the video On Sunday, June 9, 2019, Finneytown Local Schools Board of Education unanimously voted to move forward in the application process with Ohio Facilities Construction Commission and the Expedited Local Partnership Program that would assist the district in designing and building two new school buildings. The board voted this evening, Monday, June 17, 2019, to place a bond levy on the November 2019 ballot that would supply the money for 40% of the cost to construct the schools. …

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Finneytown Seniors Graduate And Look Forward to Their Futures

May is often the month of graduation, and this was no different in Finneytown Local School District. The Class of 2019 graduated on May 30 looking toward their dreams and futures, but also reflecting on their time in Finneytown and the bonds they created. Speakers reflected on the leadership roles taken by the students within the houses, how the teachers have truly influenced them as learners and people, and how the students’ hard work and perseverance has paid off to …

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Finneytown Local Schools Community Generously Award Seniors at the Senior Awards Program

It’s always a bittersweet moment as the seniors are wrapping up their time in the high school and the district. They’ve made their plans, finished their exams, and proven that hard work pays dividends. This Finneytown High School Class of 2019 earned high accolades with achievements, awards, and scholarships at the Senior Award Program on Tuesday, May 21.  At the program, students received a total of $62,250 in scholarship money for the pursuit of post-secondary education. This is outstanding support …

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COSI on Wheels Takes Learning at Whitaker Elementary to a New Level

It’s Simply Chemistry! The was the COSI (Center of Science and Industry) on Wheels Outreach Program that students at Whitaker Elementary School experienced in May. The COSI educator presented the Chemistry Program to students in grades 2-5. Students then had the opportunity to have some hands-on learning as they visited the stations that made slime, experimented with Ph levels using different chemicals, compared the textures of everyday household chemicals under microscopes, experienced first-hand the differences when you have physical and …

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