SAC minutes from
The meeting began
at
Everyone on SAC
was present. Cindi Nastri has joined SAC
as a parent representative and Jean Huston as school support. We are now in compliance with our ratio of
teachers, parents, community and school support.
Ms. Bower added an
additional item to the agenda. Our
operational guidelines did not reflect that SAC is a majority vote not a
consensus so changes were made and new copies were printed out and given to
each member. The change from consensus
to majority is a state mandate.
The next item for
discussion was the School Recognition Money Proposal. Ms. Bower asked Jerry Robinson to explain the
proposal to the rest of SAC since he was a member of the AD Hoc committee that
came up with the proposal. The staff
approved the proposal by a 2 to 1 vote.
New classroom
teachers will receive $200.00 for their classroom while returning teachers can
take all $200.00 for the classroom or $100.00 for the classroom and add $100.00
to their bonus. Support staff can choose
to take the $100.00 as a bonus or use it in their program. 96 full time staff
members will get $840.00 bonus, 4 full-time and 8 part-time staff members will
receive $420.00 and 3 part-time staff will receive $225.00. The bonuses will go to the 2002-2003
staff. Any unclaimed money will go to
the science lab. The statement regarding
unclaimed money was not included in the proposal because the understanding is
that all money will be claimed.
SAC voted and the
proposal past with 13 in favor and 4 against.
Ms. Bower went
over the Strategic Excellence Plan with the SAC. The acronym SWD was explained to the
members. It stands for Students with
Disabilities to coincide with No Child Left Behind language.
The question was
asked if there is money in the SAC budget to pay for teachers to attend
conferences. Ms. Bower stated this is an
SDMT issue.
The question was
raised about getting resources to help improve our SWD test scores since this
is an area in which we are not making progress. Ms. Bower stated that Mrs.
Robinson could help with manipulatives for hands-on learning. She and Mr. Wile will look into having
personnel from the Landings come down and inservice us
on ways to better teach SWD.
The question was
raised about how much money we have in each of the different funds, i.e. Title
I and Title II. Ms. Bower explained that
there are not separate “pots” the money is divided over all the different
categories and each category has a separate code number.
A parent asked
know how ESE is handled at our school.
Ms. Bower, Mrs. Stookey and Mrs. Channing discussed the different models
we have such as full time, resource and inclusion. The children are placed according to their
needs. She was concerned that the ESE students may hinder the regular education
students learning. We assured her all
models meet the student’s needs. The
regular education students benefit by having an extra teacher in the room in
the inclusion models.
Ms. Bower shared
with us that we should be receiving 80 computers from
SAC unanimously
approved the Strategic Excellence Plan.
The meeting
adjourned at
Respectfully
submitted,
Michelle Channing
secretary