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Board approves JAG agreement, keeps student lunch fees flat and approves substitute driver pay
Summary
The Shawnee Heights Board approved a 2627 agreement with Jobs for America's Graduates (maintaining two high-school and one middle-school JAG teachers), voted to keep student lunch fees flat for 2626–2627, and approved a substitute bus-driver pay structure after executive session. All formal votes recorded as 7-0.
The Shawnee Heights Board approved an agreement to continue the Jobs for America’s Graduates (JAG) program for 2627, a motion the board passed unanimously. Miss Bell described JAG as an evidence-based, accredited school-to-career program that keeps at-risk students engaged through classroom and career experiences; the agreement preserves two JAG teachers at the high school and one at the middle school. A board member asked whether JAG teachers are hired by the state or the district; Miss Bell confirmed they are hired through the state program and assigned to the district and are subject to the district’s background checks.
The board then reviewed the student-lunch program and voted to leave student lunch fees unchanged for the 2626–2627 school year. A board member said the program’s revenues and expenditures were reviewed and staff plan to pursue smaller, incremental changes every other year rather than larger periodic changes; the motion to keep fees flat passed 7–0.
After executive session on a personnel matter, the board approved a substitute driver pay structure as discussed in the closed session; the motion and second were recorded and the tally was 7–0. The transcript records the motions and outcomes; the meeting did not provide numeric pay rates for the substituted-driver structure in open session.
Each of these items was approved by motion and recorded by the chair as passed with a 7–0 affirmation.
