On Monday, June 9, the Monroe school board:
• Approved an internal transfer for James Cassidy, Monroe Alternative Charter School teacher, to a position teaching social studies at Monroe High School.
• Hired Brock Linde to teach English at Monroe Middle School; Rikki Kazda as school psychologist; Matt Davis as social studies teacher at MMS/MHS; Tyler Smith as MMS/MHS science teacher; Danya Ward as MMS/MHS Spanish teacher; and Erika Kieslin as first-grade teacher at Northside Elementary School.
• Accepted resignations from Teri Williams, kindergarten teacher at Abraham Lincoln school; Britney O'Connell, first-grade teacher at Parkside Elementary School; and Bob Torregrossa, weekend security/custodian.
• Increased the fee for a student athletic pass from $30 to $50. A single game is $4, and the pass allows a student to attend an unlimited number of regular home games throughout the school year. The board also created a non-athletic pass that, for $20, allows students to attend all non-athletic activities at the school such as plays and concerts. Students can purchase a combination athletic/activities pass for $60.
• Learned the district will purchase World Literature curriculum materials for about $7,700. The board also approved spending $13,700 on new World History texts to replace the existing materials at MHS. Director of Curriculum and Instruction Jennifer Thayer said the existing books are old and are difficult for both staff and students to use. The material to be purchased from Prentice Hall is the "best we found" for the World History, Thayer said.
• Agreed to purchase a new wireless GPS clock system for the high school at a cost of $21,417 from Primex Wireless. The price includes 132 single face clocks, 10 double face clocks to hang in hallways, an antennae and receiver. District maintenance staff will install the clocks this summer. Maintainence Supervisor Tom Rufenacht said the cost of the clocks, which will be kept accurate by an atomic clock in Colorado, is cheaper than a wired system. The last time the district looked at a wired system for the school, the cost was $125,000, he said.
- Mary Jane Grenzow
• Approved an internal transfer for James Cassidy, Monroe Alternative Charter School teacher, to a position teaching social studies at Monroe High School.
• Hired Brock Linde to teach English at Monroe Middle School; Rikki Kazda as school psychologist; Matt Davis as social studies teacher at MMS/MHS; Tyler Smith as MMS/MHS science teacher; Danya Ward as MMS/MHS Spanish teacher; and Erika Kieslin as first-grade teacher at Northside Elementary School.
• Accepted resignations from Teri Williams, kindergarten teacher at Abraham Lincoln school; Britney O'Connell, first-grade teacher at Parkside Elementary School; and Bob Torregrossa, weekend security/custodian.
• Increased the fee for a student athletic pass from $30 to $50. A single game is $4, and the pass allows a student to attend an unlimited number of regular home games throughout the school year. The board also created a non-athletic pass that, for $20, allows students to attend all non-athletic activities at the school such as plays and concerts. Students can purchase a combination athletic/activities pass for $60.
• Learned the district will purchase World Literature curriculum materials for about $7,700. The board also approved spending $13,700 on new World History texts to replace the existing materials at MHS. Director of Curriculum and Instruction Jennifer Thayer said the existing books are old and are difficult for both staff and students to use. The material to be purchased from Prentice Hall is the "best we found" for the World History, Thayer said.
• Agreed to purchase a new wireless GPS clock system for the high school at a cost of $21,417 from Primex Wireless. The price includes 132 single face clocks, 10 double face clocks to hang in hallways, an antennae and receiver. District maintenance staff will install the clocks this summer. Maintainence Supervisor Tom Rufenacht said the cost of the clocks, which will be kept accurate by an atomic clock in Colorado, is cheaper than a wired system. The last time the district looked at a wired system for the school, the cost was $125,000, he said.
- Mary Jane Grenzow