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Superintendent and staff outline summer programming and staffing process; district reports strong summer enrollment
Summary
District leaders provided a preliminary summer‑school update, enrollment counts, and a detailed explanation of the staffing and hiring process for replacing retirees and resignations.
Superintendent Dr. Cleveland and district staff reported enrollment and program details for secondary summer school and described the district's process for replacing staff who retire or resign.
At Archer Learning Center, 67 students are enrolled across 72 courses and the district reported three recent Archer graduates with up to eight more expected by the end of summer. The academic choice summer program has 374 students enrolled across 533 course registrations, with 97 students using the full summer to take year‑long courses (90 in computer science, five in U.S. history and two in Algebra I as of the interim report). Don Tyson School of Innovation's "fifth quarter" summer work serves students close to proficiency (20 sixth‑through‑eighth graders in skills camps; four recovering high school health seats; 35 ninth‑through‑11th graders in recovery courses). Harbor High School is hosting grades 8–12 credit recovery this year with 489 students enrolled across 37 courses (359 high school, 130 in an eighth grade component).
On staffing, the superintendent outlined the multi‑step process after a retirement or resignation: district leaders (superintendent, executive team, or directors) first determine whether the position should be refilled or the FTE reallocated, then identify funding sources (district, Title I, grant funds, ESA, special education, etc.), involve the appropriate director or coordinator (special education, athletics, curriculum) in interviews, and forward a recommended candidate to the superintendent for final approval. The new hire report shows 63 hires in the recent period; the superintendent noted roughly half are junior/high school and half elementary/middle school hires and highlighted that many new hires are district graduates.
District leaders said they will provide a comprehensive summer‑school report with final results in August or September. The superintendent and staff emphasized the complexity of matching certification, master schedules and funding sources when replacing staff and described the process for coaching positions and other roles where teaching responsibilities must be retained.
