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Votes at a glance: Weston County School District No. 1 approves personnel changes, seven-period high school and policy updates
Summary
At its March 31 meeting, the Weston County School District No. 1 board approved multiple staff resignations and appointments, voted to move the high school to a seven-period day for 2026–27, and approved revisions to Policy IKF aligning the district with draft state graduation requirements.
The Weston County School District No. 1 Board of Trustees approved a series of personnel actions, a calendar change for the high school and revisions to district graduation policy during its March 31 meeting in Newcastle.
Among personnel actions approved by voice vote, the board accepted resignations and thanked departing staff: Zane Marty (elementary teacher); Chad Ossinson (K–12 adaptive PE teacher); Marty Ossison (K–5 Title/math teacher); Erin Piezinski (K–12 literacy facilitator); Denise Anderson (food service director); Madison Holden (middle school special education paraprofessional); Christy Lewis (elementary special education paraprofessional); and Melissa Sisk (elementary special education teacher). The board also approved the appointment of James Phillips as lead custodian, effective June 13.
The board approved a recommendation to move the high school to a seven-period day beginning in the 2026–27 school year. Superintendent LaCroix said the change is intended to allow the district to share staff across middle and high school and to preserve programming despite small cohort sizes. LaCroix described a staggered reduction in the maximum number of credits a student can earn in the school day: next year’s seniors would still have a 28-credit maximum, with the cap decreasing by one credit for subsequent cohorts as the schedule transitions.
Trustees approved revisions to Policy IKF (graduation requirements) and added IKF–E (graduation credit requirements exhibit). District staff said the policy language was updated to match terminology in a draft of Chapter 31 (state graduation requirements), including replacing older terms such as “career vocational education” with the draft’s “career technical education,” and changing “foreign cultures and languages” to “world languages.” Staff also said the district will revisit policy language after Chapter 31 is finalized; the draft contemplates multiple measures of competency rather than a single equivalency exam and will affect how districts document graduation standards.
Other routine actions — including approval of the agenda and consent agenda items — were passed by the board by voice vote. Where motions were recorded, the minutes note voice approval rather than roll-call tallies.
No funding or program authorizations linked to these votes were detailed at the meeting; the board recorded no contested roll-call vote on these items during the session.
