Budget information shared at tonights sch brd meeting included about $160,000 left over from FY2014. A part-time position is being added to the finance dept. Capital improvements totaling just over $500,000 are expected to the MS for HVAC, gym, and locker room improvements. This month expenses of almost $39,000 were paid to NCS Pearson Corp. About $4500 was paid for annual memberships to various administrative organizations including the American Association of School Administrators, the District Administrative Leadership Institute, Phi Delta Kappa, and the Urban Superintendents Association of America. In other business, the SOQ Compliance Report was approved. Fluvanna certifies compliance in the following areas: A program of physical fitness available to all students with a goal of at least 150 minutes per week on average during the regular school year. Such program may include any combination of: (i) physical education classes; (ii) extracurricular athletics; (iii) other programs and physical activities deemed appropriate by the local school board. Each local school board shall incorporate into its local wellness policy a goal for the implementation of such program during the regular school year. The school division has a division-wide ratio of pupils in average daily membership to full-time equivalent teaching positions (excluding special education teachers, principals, assistant principals, counselors, and librarians) no greater than the following: Twenty-four to one in kindergarten, with no class larger than twenty-nine; twenty-four to one in grades one, two and three with no class larger than thirty at any of these levels. If your school division is utilizing and complies with the temporary flexibility language in Item 139 of the Appropriation Act related to ratios and your division complies with the class size requirements, please answer yes to this question. A full time teachers aide is assigned to any kindergarten class where the average daily membership exceeds twenty-four pupils. Twenty-five to one in grades four through six with no class larger than thirty-five pupils. If your school division is utilizing and complies with the temporary flexibility language in Item 139 of the Appropriation Act related to ratios and your division complies with the class size requirements, please answer yes to this question. Twenty-four to one in English classes in grades six through twelve. If your school division is utilizing and complies with the temporary flexibility language in Item 139 of the Appropriation Act, please answer yes to this question. The school division assigns instructional personnel in a manner that produces school-wide ratios of students in average daily memberships to full-time equivalent teaching positions of twenty-one (21) to one in middle and high schools. The school division provides all middle and high school teachers with one planning period per day or the equivalent, unencumbered of any teaching or supervisory duties. Sch Brd member Bertha Armstrong has agreed to ask for the release of the spring 2014 staff survey, but she was unable to attend this evenings meeting.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 01:20:22 +0000
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