L'Anse Creuse board approves online enrollment plan, keeps school-of-choice limits and votes to expel a student
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Summary
The board approved joining an ISD consortium for PowerSchool Enrollment Express, recommended keeping 2026–27 school-of-choice limits (unlimited K–8, limited 9–10 with 40 seats, plus criterion-based seats), carried several procurement and personnel motions, and unanimously approved the expulsion of student 0384 after a closed-session consideration under the Open Meetings Act.
The L'Anse Creuse Public Schools Board of Education voted on several operational and disciplinary items during the meeting, including adopting a plan to move enrollment forms online, affirming school-of-choice limits for 2026–27 and approving a disciplinary expulsion after a closed session.
Online enrollment District staff presented PowerSchool Enrollment Express, an online registration system integrated with the district's PowerSchool student information system. Staff said the district is one of the few in Macomb County without an online enrollment solution and proposed joining an Intermediate School District (ISD) consortium that provides three-year pricing; the consortium agreement lets the district pay year-by-year while securing the three-year rate.
"We are one of the, possibly, only districts in Macomb County that do not have online enrollment," the presenter said, describing how parents would enter demographic information online while the district would continue to verify documents in person. The board did not state a dollar figure during the presentation; staff described the pricing as a three-year contract billed annually through the ISD consortium.
School of choice Staff reviewed school-of-choice and enrollment data and recommended keeping the same limits for 2026–27: unlimited grades K–5, unlimited grades 6–8, limited seats for grades 9–10 (40 seats total), and criterion-based seats for magnet programs (10 seats for 10th grade and 10 seats for 11th grade). Staff presented data showing 222 new external school-of-choice enrollments in the year reviewed (64 of those were district move-outs continuing with the district) and reported a net gain of 413 FTE students in Macomb County interdistrict exchanges for 2024–25.
Trustee discussion Trustees asked whether the district had turned away applicants under current limits; staff said it had not. Trustee Lipsky suggested amending board operating procedures so the board would not have to vote annually on the school-of-choice determination unless the board later chose to change it. Several trustees said they would accept that change if current data continued to be presented annually.
Discipline and votes The board moved into closed session under the Open Meetings Act, section 8(1)(b), to consider student discipline. After returning to open session, the board announced tabling item d2 (recommendation to expel student 0432) to the next meeting and then voted to expel student 0384. The motion to expel (moved by Mr. De Villa, supported by Ms. Ross) carried unanimously (all seven members voting yes). The meeting record shows votes taken on consent-agenda procurement and personnel items as well; motions to award repair services and preventive maintenance for school kitchen equipment (funded from the food-service fund), bid packages 25-06 and 26-02, and a mechanical commissioning recommendation all carried as recorded on the consent agenda.
Personnel Among employment items the board approved was the termination of a "stomp and shake" coach position after the district reported coaches did not respond to outreach; the board treated employment recommendations as part of the consent agenda and approved them as presented.
Closed session for bargaining and adjournment The board later moved into closed session under section 8(1)(c) for collective-bargaining negotiations, returned to open session around 10:31 p.m., and adjourned after recording the meeting's end.
