"Hi Ed,
In Npt ENpt, of our last 3 supes two were hired already with the degree. The other never acquired one. For our most recent hire (last year) we did consider his advanced degree when offering the salary. I hope this helps. ‘Sorry for the late…"

"Hi Paul, One thing that has worked for us is to bring the training to the district. The NYSSBA leadership development team runs some very useful custom board retreats (and no, I am not getting paid for that endorsement)."

"Likewise, we have a motion to adjourn thinking that the board can't do anything unless a majority agrees. But, I was recently following board minutes of another district and saw that the President declared the meeting adjourned. It made me think of…"

"The district I work for had this same issue. Luckily at last minute one of our math teachers offered to teach Physics and we used the other science certified teachers to teach one class outside of their cert area and pulled it off. Also, Erie 1…"

"I don't have any suggestions, but I am truly sorry your district is in this predicament. We are a small district also, and are still missing a science teacher. One of our Board members is a retired science teacher and graciously agreed to volunteer…"

"In addition to many of the replies here, this year the Superintendent's report includes a section for the response to last month's public comments. That way all the members of audience hear the answer."

"Our board has also discussed paying teachers extra for additional assignments when subs are not available. We are quite split as to whether this is good practice."

"We just re-approved our "extra class" payment of $25 (6-12). Prior to this year, there was no cash compensation for this type of coverage.
EDIT TO ADD: I should have included where that amount came from: Our daily sub rate is approx $125 (varies…"

"We wrote a letter asking our town to opt out. A few months prior we had children in our district get sick from eating cookies laced woth cannabis. Since NY state hasn’t put out any guidelines on how to protect school age children from the edibles we…"

"Our town council voted to opt-out of selling cannibis, but may approve it in the future. I attended two public hearings held by the town council. About 50 people attended the first meeting and opinions were very divided and emotional. There were…"

"Hi Ed. No one has brought this up at our school board meetings. But, I attended a couple of our town board meetings where our town board decided to opt-out of the cannibis dispensary law -- so they won't be permitted in our town. I guess that means…"

"Not yet but we would have to have a board discussion and vote around this issue if it is something the board wished to pursue."