Hi all - just curious if any other districts are getting hammered by costs of placing Special Education students out of district. If so, do you have any creative ideas on how to remediate costs? This topic single-handedly caused us to have to…
"We have protocols in place to make sure that any questions get routed through the president of the board. This ensures that the sup’t is not getting slammed with what may be duplicate questions or concerns. It also allows me as the president to…"
"My board is currently reviewing how we handle evaluations. We use a Word doc that has rubrics that most of us know by now. The problem comes when we have a rubric, just as an example, that asks us to review how the sup’t interacts with his/her…"
"As we speak we are considering a 12 million dollar capital project to run all new HVAC to our one building (we’re a small district). I’m very conflicted to be honest. While I believe AC would help students concentrate, there’s probably only a…"
"We also motion and second on everything, including adjournment, going into exec session, going out of exec session, re-entering general session, etc. In our small district many times no one is even there to hear it, but we do it just the same :)"
"This thread is very interesting and a little surprising to me. In our district (which is very small, total of maybe 600 students) the board has the final say on the hiring of both principals and the business administrator. But before a candidate…"
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