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The Glynn County Board of Education is considering cutting six days out of the school year and adding 15 minutes to each school day as a cost-saving measure.
Teachers would have 10 days longer than students for planning, mid-term and post-planning days, similar to what they have now. Currently, students attend school for 180 days and teachers are contracted for 190 days with 10 planning days.
The proposal would save the system $3 million annually.
Mann said he is talking with school administrators in other counties - Camden, Effingham and Candler - to develop a common school calendar.
"We are all working in unison to come up with some kind of similar calendar," Mann said. "We just don't know what's going to exactly happen."
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Lawyers for Glynn County and a resident who has sued in federal court in an attempt to stop expansion of the county jail downtown agreed Monday to enter court-supervised mediation to try to resolve the dispute.
In mediation, parties agree to meet with a neutral third party in private to see if they can find common ground from which to develop an agreement to settle their dispute out of court. If they cannot, they can return to court to litigate their differences before a judge or jury for a binding decision.
In agreeing to try mediation, Glynn County specifically stated that the county commission would not take any action on expansion of the detention center during the mediation period that runs through March 31. That agreement includes a promise that it will not vote on any proposal for architectural design or construction during the period.
County resident Catherine Browning filed suit March 2 to try to stop the long-controversial jail plan when it appeared that a majority of county commissioners who favor downtown expansion were preparing to award a no-bid contract this past Thursday for preliminary design work on an expansion plan at the site of the existing jail, as an alternative to expansion into an adjacent block.
Friday, U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood recommended that both sides enter informal discussions with court supervision on the lawsuit.
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Two Glynn County school police captains have moved their office to the old Glynn Middle School building as a security measure, following the alleged sexual assault of a female high school student there Friday.
Across a practice field from the main Glynn Academy building, the old Glynn Middle School building houses a variety of organizations and activities, including the ROTC program and student testing laboratories that allow students to prepare for tests and to make up missed graduation credits.
Weidhaas said the gymnasium area, where the 16-year-old Glynn Academy student said she was assaulted during school hours, will continue to be utilized.
Some space at the old Glynn Middle School was incorporated into Glynn Academy after the middle school was moved to a new building at 935 Lanier Blvd., Brunswick, at the start of the school year.
The student reported to authorities that she was sexually assaulted by four males in a restroom at the old Glynn Middle School gymnasium.
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