LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – Jefferson County Board of Education member Benjamin Gies resigned from the faculty board Monday after accepting a task as a policy fundamental at Kentucky Youth Advocates, Jefferson County Public Schools, introduced in a news launch. Gies, who taught records at East Oldham Middle School and turned into in his first term representing District Four after his 2016 election, wrote in his resignation letter to Chairwoman Diane Porter that he’d make cognizance on early adolescence, K-12 and federal training policy in his new position with the non-profit.
At its July sixteen meeting, the board will declare an emptiness, putting in motion a 60-day technique that permits the remaining participants to choose an applicant to fill the remainder of Gies’s term. Applicants — who should be 24, be a Kentucky citizen for at least three years, be registered to vote within the faculty board district, and have a high college diploma or GED — might be solicited in the course of a two-week duration within 30 days of the vacancy. Gies’s decision to step down from the faculty board got here days after a new regulation took effect, allowing neighborhood faculty boards to fill vacancies instead of Kentucky’s education commissioner. In his resignation letter, Gies is known as the opportunity “too outstanding to skip up” and credited the faculty board and JCPS Superintendent Marty Pollio for their efforts to reinvigorate a school machine “to bear fruit in a more potent and richer Louisville.” “I view my new 
position as a continuation of my carrier to public training and the children of the commonwealth extra typically,” he wrote. “While this selection is tough,
I consider in Dr. (Marty) Pollio and our board group to keep the most excellent work we’ve achieved collectively at some stage in my term in the workplace.” Porter, in a declaration, thanked Gies for his career on the seven-member board and stated the ultimate members “will paintings diligently to rent a qualified candidate to fill his seat. Online schooling is teaching and studying via computers and Internet connections. Transfer of knowledge and abilities does no longer mean head-to-head interaction. It is a distinct shape of traditional teaching in which you examine within the classroom with a teacher in front of you. In online training, you revel in gaining knowledge via technology and even advance your gadgets and curriculum education.
