Charles F. Johnson

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  Published on: 11/4/2007    Last Visited: 11/4/2007  

  Chuck Johnson

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  www.hernandotoday.com/MGB5RWPIY5F.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/29/2007    Last Visited: 8/30/2007  

  And Westside Elementary School principal Charles Johnson admits he's a little puzzled as to why his school has about 80 students fewer than the expected 1,000.
  
  Johnson wonders if taxes and insurance are driving families out of Hernando County.
  
  Whatever the reason, having fewer students than projected isn't always a positive thing.
  
  Sure, it means fewer students in the cafeteria, the library and in art and physical education, Johnson said.
  
  But schools are staffed according to enrollment projections.The farther short a school falls of those projections, the bigger chance that the school will lose teachers to the reallocation process.
  
  "You hate to see that happen," Johnson said.

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  Published on: 8/17/2007    Last Visited: 8/18/2007  

  Westside principal Charles Johnson and a host of Westside teachers say Cody and roughly 250 other students will benefit from the new same-gender classroom program starting at the school this year.
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  "Any little avenue we can give (students) to have a better opportunity to be successful, I want to take," Johnson said Friday as the campus on Applegate Drive began to quiet down again after a two-hour open house.
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  Johnson, who first brought up the possibility of such a program to the school board, says science is on the side of same-gender classrooms.
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  The same-gender classes at each grade level were placed close to one another when it comes time for shared activities, Johnson said.
  
  Johnson and teachers acknowledged that the program might not work for everyone, though, and parents who find that their children aren't benefiting can have their child moved to a mixed classroom.

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  Hernando County District Drops Plan For Same-Sex... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/23/2006    Last Visited: 6/23/2006  

  That school administrator is 30-year educator Charles Johnson, principal of Westside Elementary School.
  
  Johnson planned to mail out letters to parents in July offering them the option to have their children take part in single-sex classrooms.Each grade level, Johnson said, would have one all-girls class and one all-boys class.
  
  Johnson researched the information for more than a year.
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  "A lot of the lower achievement classes seem to be top-heavy with boys," Johnson said.
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  Board member Robert Wiggins looked at the program much like Johnson did: as an academic booster for boys and girls.

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  Hernando Today - Online Edition - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/4/2007    Last Visited: 2/5/2007  

  BROOKSVILLE - June 2006 found Westside Elementary School principal Chuck Johnson sitting on months of research and hopeful anticipation about a program that he wanted to offer pupils.
  
  He learned the best means for the program's success was to give parents the option of volunteering to group their children in classes by their sex.
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  But, it's taken some work for Johnson to return to the same place he was last year to offer the program to his school's families.
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  Johnson, however, wanted to offer the pilot program to his pupils because his research led him to believe that achievement gaps exist between boys and girls.
  
  "A lot of the lower-achievement classes seem to be top-heavy with boys," Johnson said.

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  Hernando Today - Online Edition - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/9/2006    Last Visited: 12/13/2006  

  Originally, Westside Elementary School principal Chuck Johnson and his staff prepared to start teaching students in a same-gender classroom environment for the 2005-06 school year.
  
  Johnson planned to have one male class and one female class at each grade level.He was going to offer the program to parents as an option.
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  With that information in hand, the board reached a consensus to allow Johnson to move forward for the coming school year.
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  Johnson,Westside's principal, was attracted to educating students in a same-gender classroom environment to find out if students' scores would improve on the state assessment test known as the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, or FCAT.
  
  "A lot of the lower-achievement classes seem top-heavy with boys," Johnson said before the school year started.

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  Hernando Today - Online Edition - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/20/2006    Last Visited: 6/21/2006  

  That school administrator is 30-year educator Charles Johnson, principal of Westside Elementary School.
  
  Johnson planned to mail out letters to parents in July offering them the option to have their children take part in single-sex classrooms.Each grade level, Johnson said, would have one all-girls class and one all-boys class.
  
  His decision to try out the same-gender classes wasn't made hastily.He researched the information for more than a year.
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  "A lot of the lower achievement classes seem to be top-heavy with boys," Johnson said.
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  Board member Robert Wiggins looked at the program much like Johnson did: as an academic booster for boys and girls.

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  Hernando Today - Online Edition - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/14/2006    Last Visited: 6/16/2006  

  Westside Elementary School principal Charles Johnson is hoping for those academic improvements in the coming school year.Johnson's school will be the first public school in the county to offer same-gender classes for pupils starting in August.Since the program is in its infancy, Johnson plans for one class of boys and one class of girls at each grade level.The reasoning behind the shift, Johnson said, is that he has noticed achievement gaps among his boys and girls."A lot of the lower achievement classes seem to be top-heavy with boys," Johnson said.After researching, Johnson determined that one way to give boys and girls a better opportunity to learn was to separate them for classroom instruction."I spoke to the superintendent about a year ago," Johnson said.
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  Unbeknownst to both Malcolm and Johnson, about the same time they began to look at the research, other national public school systems began to start same-gender classes on a trial basis.The same gender classes have been deemed a way of grouping kids that has launched a national trend and with it national opposition.It all started in 2004, when representatives from the U.S. Department of Education announced that they were going to amend rules regarding gender-specific education - namely Title IX rules.The rule change allowed more schools to offer single-sex classes, provided equal resources were available for both boys and girls.Johnson, for example, wishes for each grade level at his school to have an all-girls' class and an all-boys' class."The first year is pretty exploratory," Johnson said.
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  "Already we've developed a negative atmosphere for boys," Johnson said when considering how school classrooms don't cater to how the sexes learn."We're sending our little boys up to an all female institution."

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  Hernando Today - Online Edition - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/6/2004    Last Visited: 2/8/2004  

  Chuck Johnson, principal of Westside Elementary School, said he was not at the school when the shots were fired, but after hearing about the shooting, he immediately went to the location.He said there was an after school program going on at the time.There were between 50-100 children at the school and at the Boys & Girls Club, he said.He said it was not long before police responded and had Libertini in custody."The situation was under control in a matter of minutes," Johnson said.On Friday, counselors had been put on alert at the school.None of the children were hurt during the incident.Johnson said none of the children inside the school had seen the shooting.He said during the ordeal students were frightened, but school officials had locked the doors and put the children in a secure location."Anytime shots are fired on a school campus it's a tense situation," he said.

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  Spring Hill Schools - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/2/2006    Last Visited: 8/23/2008  

  Charles F Johnson, Principal5400 Applegate Dr.Spring Hill, FL 34606-4553352-666-1831

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