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Board approves calendar update to avoid remote make-up day; enters executive session
Summary
The board approved calendar revisions swapping a potential remote make-up day for an in-person day and agreed the lost professional development day will be returned to teachers next year; the meeting then moved into executive session for personnel matters with no action scheduled afterward.
The school board voted to approve calendar updates that remove a possible remote instructional make-up day and instead swap an in-service/professional-development day into March, with the moved PD day rescheduled to May. The motion to approve the calendar passed on a roll call vote (yes recorded from Miss Menke, Miss Haywood, Miss Roland Miller, Miss Phillips and Miss Larimer).
Dr. Anstead and Miss Price explained the change and emphasized operational reasons: Miss Price said remote learning "is just difficult for everyone," citing planning, cameras and home-Internet constraints, and noted the district had worked cooperatively with the PEA (teachers' union) to accommodate the swap and to return the lost PD day to teachers the following year.
Board members asked clarifying questions about the threshold for triggering a make-up day, whether the decision would be districtwide, and how minimum-attendance formulas apply; staff explained the formula for required minutes and that the district had not yet triggered statutory minimum-attendance concerns. After approving the calendar, the board moved into executive session to discuss personnel matters (appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion, compensation, and investigation of complaints). A roll call vote approved entry into executive session and it was stated explicitly that no action would follow the executive session.
