RIDGWAY–The Ridgway Space Faculty District (RASD) governing board met on Tuesday night for the March assembly. The agenda included College students of the Month, many experiences from employees and intergovernmental companies, in addition to the Vitamin Group, which gives Cafeteria Providers to the District.
The Ridgway Space College students of the month are Kindergarteners Kinslee MacDonald and Mason Cope, Sixth-Grader Makayla Dwight, and Junior Erik Panebianco.
The Vitamin Group, represented by managers Jodee Raybuck and Allison Henry, which gives dietary providers throughout the RASD, gave a presentation to the Governing Board concerning the working funds being within the optimistic after a extreme deficit final 12 months. Due to the Federal Authorities for offering full reimbursement for all meals, there may be now an over $100,000 surplus within the Cafeteria Account. The Vitamin Group mentioned they appreciated RASD’s understanding in mild of meals provide chain challenges they proceed to face. Staffing and labor shortages, rising prices of fabric and transportation, and distribution hiccups are just some of the continuing disruptions affecting the foodservice business. Because of this, menu choices usually change on brief discover. However they assured the board that there isn’t a scarcity of meals. The Governing Board authorized the contract renewal for the Vitamin Group, with a number of of the scholars of the month talking to their favourite meals on the weekly menu.
The Intermediate Unit 9 Report (IU9) was accepted with no modifications or important bulletins. On the whole, the report outlined the reappointment of employees to committees for the brand new 12 months, with some fundamental housekeeping points concerning budgets and appropriations.
Principal Mrs. Pam Yeager of the FSG Elementary introduced her report on the college to the board. Security drills proceed to be run month-to-month on the elementary college. Along with the month-to-month fireplace drills all year long, and an introduced lockdown drill was held in February with employees and college students. Classroom check-ins had been held by Mrs. Yeager instantly after. These drills educate younger college students the right way to react and behave throughout emergencies, and so they additionally permit FSG to make any wanted changes and handle any considerations. The elementary employees has begun assembly with studying curriculum firms to evaluation pupil and trainer supplies. Along with data from e-Reviews, an impartial nonprofit that publishes free critiques of Okay-12 educational supplies, research-based rubrics shall be utilized to comprehensively analyze the curriculums prior to creating a ultimate advice. Mrs. Yeager and Mrs. Daghir, college counselor, go to all school rooms to handle being an ELKER and areas of want with the coed physique. Subjects embody being sort to 1 one other in addition to the right way to deal with and handle each other. FSG Elementary hosted Dr. Seuss week the week of February 28, the place costume theme days had been offered for the employees and college students. Further literacy actions had been built-in all through the school rooms as properly. Mrs. Raubenstrauch organized a Bee Program for all college students to take part in throughout the month of March. The Mangaroo household from Emporium brings in provides from their farm to teach the scholars on bees and their significance to the ecosystem.
Mrs. Noel Petrosky, Principal of the Center and Excessive Colleges, gave her report back to the board indicating the sleek operation of the college over the previous month.
Senior Julie Peterson, the Scholar Consultant on the board, additionally gave a quick report from the angle of those that attend the colleges every day. She reported a profitable basketball season, college students collaborating in debate and science gala’s, and the submission of Senior Initiatives being accomplished up to now month.
Supertiendant Heather McMahon-Vargas gave her report back to the board. A separate article within the Ridgway File shall be forthcoming concerning the efficiency of scholars district-wide within the state’s standardized testing evaluation. Price range discussions and analytics have continued to be a major focus, with departments requesting modifications of their budgets in response to up to date wants. Expertise, pupil providers, staffing necessities, buildings, and grounds are all requesting will increase to their budgets or the reallocation of funds from one a part of their program to a different for the 22-23 college 12 months. The RASD’s Complete Planning Committee has been assembly since
October 2021 and has undertaken a number of actions, together with a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, alternatives, and threats) evaluation to determine the District’s strengths, weaknesses, alternatives, and threats. The committee mirrored on the knowledge from the SWOT evaluation and a evaluation of information in an effort to determine core values throughout all stakeholder teams. The committee then used the broad listing of core values to determine precedence “frequent core values”: communication, respect,
collaboration-participation, and management. The 22-23 Calendar shall be introduced for the first studying in March on the assembly and tentatively was authorized by the board. Mrs. Heindl’s request to maneuver Mrs. Cowan to the full-time OSS Admin Assistant with out a substitute for the para emptiness. Mrs. Heindl is engaged on methods to briefly cowl precedence areas. This contains school-to-work college students to fill the constructing para sub place that has been vacant because the starting of the 12 months. Mrs. Sidelinger can be engaged on logistics for this example with ESS – Supply for Academics. Two folks have reached out about this place, with two resumes submitted, however no purposes have been acquired because it has been reposted.
The RASD Governing Board authorized a Seneca IU9 Decision to make the most of funding acquired from the group to implement applications authorized by IU9 and the RASD Governing Board.
As a part of the Pennsylvania Departement of Training and the Pennsylvania Division of Well being suggestions, the RASD Governing Board authorized implementing a Naloxone (NARCAN) plan at every of the colleges. The Faculty nurse or different skilled employees members shall be liable for the administration of NARCAN if a suspected overdose of an opioid treatment or unlawful drug is suspected. NARCAN would have only a few negative effects even when it had been improperly administrated to somebody not present process an overdose. With the rising use and abuse of unlawful medication, particularly Fentanyl, it was felt by the board that this program will hopefully by no means be used however may very well be lifesaving.
The subsequent Governing Board assembly will happen on April 5 in a piece session and on April 12 in a full board assembly each on the FSG Elementary Faculty Cafeteria starting at 6:30 pm. The general public is welcome to attend.