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Supes quiz school board
WARM SPRINGS - During the meeting of the annual joint Bath School Board and Board of Supervisors dinner, supervisor Percy Nowlin presented the following list of 10 questions to the school board and administration and asked for a response in writing:
1) The Weldon Cooper Center projects that Bath will lose 23.5 percent of our school population over the next five years (2011-12); 750 were projected in the budget for this year, with actual enrollment down to 722 or less. Projections are 685 for 2008-09 and 582 in 2011-12. Since the review, this is a decrease of 206 pupils, with the birth projections steady at 25 (per year) for the next several years. What can be done to plan, by attrition, a reduction in staff?
2) What is the current classroom teacher ratio to average daily membership (number of students)? The ratio of classroom and resource teachers combined? Separate ratios for each school.
3) Were you able to install the automatic door at Valley Elementary that we asked about last year?
4) The efficiency review recommended $3.2 million in savings, $902,000 in expenditures to be more effective, for a net savings of $2,306,831. Realizing that not all of these were practical, have you been able to accomplish any of those recommendations?
5) The review cited 163 total employees; have you been able to reduce that number by attrition?
6) Are we fully utilizing the distant learning center (periods per day and night use)? Can you help teachers gain certification and take curriculum courses in the county without going outside? Do we need to establish a second distance-learning classroom to be more effective?
7) Can we conduct a regional survey to see what vocational courses would make our graduates employable?
8) Can you initiate a software program to let the parents monitor their children's progress?
9) What can be done to encourage students and parents to better participate in the free and reduced lunch and breakfast program? This would also increase the Federal Title I funds.
10) Are we doing anything about our football stands and the weight room (for all our students)?
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