Monday, June 21, 2010

Columbia School Board hears enrollment report

At its first meeting after the end of the 2009-10 school year, the Columbia School Board heard a report on enrollment within the school district.
Special Education Director Jennifer Zolenas-West reported at last Thursday's meeting, that 56 students moved into the school district within the past year, many needing special education services. There were also 35 students who moved out of the districts and six, who dropped out needing services.
 In other business, the board:
* The board approved use of the First English Room at the District Administrative Center by the Columbia-Middletown Elks Lodge on Nov. 14 for a district meeting.
* Approved use of the CHS Auditorium, Sept. 30 from 6-9 p.m. for a public presentation on Columboa's Strategic Economic Development Plan.
* Denied awarding a contract for the exterior painting of the district's Administrative Center.
* Accepted the resignations of Amy Greenfield, high school chemistry teacher; Maren Crucitt, elementary kindergarten teacher; James Jones, junior high westling coach and Kelly Santoro, junior high cheerleading coach.
* Hired Tina Warfel as substitute summer school teacher; Robin Youn, safey patrol and student council advisor at Taylor; Bonnie Miller, technology liason, Taylor; John Moody and Daniel Young, junior high football coaches; Danielle Diaz, assistant junior high football coach and Brian Brown, assistant junior high boys' basketball coach.
* Approved the transfer of Brenda Terry from literacy coach to kindergarten teacher.
* Approved the support staff handbook,effective through June 30, 2014.
* Approved a base value format to calculate support staff salaries for the 2010-2011 school year.
* Approved continuation of the football booster club and elementary student activity account.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

the 56 students that moved into the school district this year-do they live in rental properties-then they don't have to pay taxes. they move here just to put kids in school at an outrageous costs to us homeowners.

Anonymous said...

Special Education Director Jennifer Zolenas-West reported at last Thursday's meeting, that 56 students moved into the school district within the past year, many needing special education services.

What is the school doing about this issue? I wonder how many of these "special needs" students actually live in Columbia. I heard the school board president say several years ago that many of the special needs students don't even live in Columbia. That Columbia has such a good program for these students that parents are listing a Columbia addres when in fact they do not even live in Columbia. Why doesn't the school look into hiring someone to go around and physically check on the residency of ALL of our students? It costs 3 times more to educate these students than the ones that are not special needs. I wonder just what percent of our student body is considered special needs?