2 area school personnel will serve on state education panel

Two Hi-Line educators have been named to a 33-member panel that will assist the Montana Office of Public Instruction develop Montana’s education accountability system.

Bart Hawkins, superintendent of North Star Schools, and Reyna Perez, Hays-Lodge Pole’s academy administrator, were named by OPI Superintendent Denise Juneau to serve on the committee that will develop the systems under the new Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaces the No Child Left Behind program.

OPI will transition from No Child Left Behind during the 2017-2018 school year....