001[Music] All [Music] right. [Music] We call this meeting the board of schooles to order. If you are able, will you please join us as we stand for a moment of silence and pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Okay, next we have patron concerns and two speakers signed up. Mr. Boswell, do you want to go first? Oh, please stand on that sto look a little wild. Uh, sorry Oakdale, but this is the only time they give us to speak, so this is when I'm going to talk. So, I've been here um a couple times now to discuss Tennyson Elementary School. I brought up the school district
002boundaries and the limited area that's currently going to Tennyson. I also brought up the possibility of giving Tennyson an extra school bus with a pickup location somewhere in Booneville or Lynville to give parents and kids an option to that are looking to attend a small school. Uh, one of the board members also brought it up again in the recent work session you had. Um, so far, however, there's been no further action on any of these ideas. Instead, we seem to continue to find ways to limit and transfer the staff at the small school, which already has limited staffing. The goal of all this seems to be to reduce the cost per student at Tennyson Elementary. It's not to reduce the overall cost of the school system. So, as was also mentioned at the work session,
003there's two ways to reduce that cost. One's to reduce the cost of the staff through reductions and transfers. The other way is to increase the number of students. So, before we make drastic changes to the staffing there, maybe we should explore ways that we could increase the student population. As has been presented at recent meetings, the cost per student considering instructional costs at Tennyson is $17,495. That's based on 60 kids enrolled there this year. Next year's enrollment is less at 50 kids. So that's going to increase the cost per student to almost 21,000. If we were to increase the number of students next year by just 20, the cost would be reduced to about $15,000. So that's $6,000 per student. And you can do those calculations with just a simple calculator and a piece of
004paper rather than a glitchy spreadsheet like we tried to use at the work session. It seems that this path to a reduction in cost per student ought to be something that's pursued first before we change all the staffing at the school. I already mentioned what I thought were the best ways at increasing the number of students. Um, another path that might be feasible is to extend the overlapping areas for just the Tennyson district. That could allow kids that are located in the overlapping areas to and probably have a shorter bus ride to Tennyson to attend whichever school they would prefer. You might be able to accomplish this with just the two buses that are currently in use at the school. In summary, I really appreciate the board's decision to keep the school open, but my
005recommendation is to give the school more flexibility to increase the overall number of kids and fully use the school and staff. We ought to at least try this before making changes to the staffing that could impact the quality of education at the school. Thanks. Thank you, Um, good evening and thank you all for your time. I would first like to say thank you to the board and the board alone for fighting to keep Tennyson open. I've heard you all say that most the most important thing to the central office is the quality of education the children receive. After what the central office has decided to do to our small school, I now know that is a lie. All the central office cares about is the money. I've heard over and over that the cost per
006student at Tennyson is too high. The real question is, are children getting a good education? None of you would know this because most of you have never set foot in our building. You just sit back and let one person bring you all your information, never questioning it. I I suggest you think about that. I know we only have three kindergarters enrolled for next year, but I think you all are missing a key detail. We only have three because the central office has been working hard for two years to shut us down. So when rumors start to fly about the school closing from all across the county, including the central office and the superintendent's mom, we all have to know that that affects us and our enrollment potential greatly. People still don't know that Tennyson will
007be open next year. So please post something on the word county school homepage. We need your help. Two years ago, I wrote Dr. Redmond a letter letting her know the things that I felt needed to be addressed. Not one of these was things ever considered. Before the meeting night, I meet emailed all of you a copy. The parent teachers have made flyers, handed out business cards, but none of this matters if we don't have your full support. After the recent work session my husband and I attended, I finally felt like the board was on our side. However, it is very clear that the central office sees all of this as a business, not as a school district. When we have two people in the central office that only care about the cost of my child,
008it becomes clear that we are not concerned with the quality of their education. How could you look at our of only six full-time teachers and think that the best thing to do is to require the two highest paid teachers to find a new school to work at. They have only been here for a combined 50 plus years. You do away with our librarian and demand our lunch manager to drive all the way across the county to work at another school while still running our cafeteria from a distance. Your plan is to replace the most experienced teacher, our art teacher, with the teacher with zero experience and at the lowest pay scale. Our art teacher teaches sixth grade levels daily, alternating art and music every nine weeks, puts on all the school plays, coaches dance, and
009teaches title in her spare time. I say good luck to the newbie. These are people, not just a dollar sign. They are people that have put their heart and soul into a place that hasn't been easy to work at because for the past 40 years, the central office has treated our school like an afterthought. Instead, you are willing to take a small school that works as a family and rip it apart. All to try and save some money. And how do I know all of this? Because I am a substitute, a coach, a volunteer, the vice president of TPT. And I would like to invite all of the board members to come out to for a day of tennis and to experience this amazing place. Thank you. Thank you. School spotlight. Dr. Redmond. Thank you,
010Mrs. Clever. Tonight we have the Oakdale Oaks with us in the house tonight. So, I would like to introduce Mrs. Jamie Prior, the principal of Oakdale, and she can get us started with our spotlight tonight. Good evening. Um, as Dr. Redmond said, I'm the principal at Oakdale Oakdale. Um, and I am very grateful uh for our students. Um and our staff, our staff goes above and beyond to meet the needs of our uh students and they have come in every day loving big um and making sure that their environment is safe and they're ready to learn. We have some special guests. We have a group of students that are going to be performing for you. Um Mr. K is our music teacher. He's new to our building. Um if you would like to introduce our
011kiddos, we have um he's in charge of our choir. And we'd like to showcase um Mr. Reny. She's going to play a song for you. Good evening, members of the school board. Uh my name is Benjamin Kanig and I am the new music teacher at Oakdale Elementary School, having taught 11 years previously in EBSC and in other locations. The first year at Oakdale Music has been nothing short of magical. Uh we have a full suite of guitars that our fifth graders are learning to play. We have 10 ukuleles that our fourth graders are practicing on in partners with more on the way. We also had the People's Trust and uh Christian Science Trust of Booneville through the People's Bank donate $4,000 to provide us with steel drums to replace the recorders. We love the recorder,
012but it's been around several hundred years. And we wanted to kind of give a new flavor and a new spin on our curriculum. And the wonderful thing about the steel drums, uh the Panyard Company, which is based in Ohio, makes these right here in our country. And it is tuned correctly to all the notes that we would use on our Quaver curriculum that we've invested. so heavily in it. Anyway, so we can just simply transplant the instrument and use the exact same music just with a little bit of a kind of tropical vibe to it. We also had our first talent show and our first afterchool choir that have returned to our school since before CO 19. As a matter of fact, fresh off the heels of the talent show is our closing soloist, Miss
013Serenity Hawkins, and she's going to sing part of her solo that she concluded the talent show with just about 20, 30 minutes ago, which is Diamonds by Rihanna. Shine bright like a diamond. Shine [Music] bright in the beautiful sea. I choose to be happy. You and I. You and I. We're like diamonds in the sky. You're a shooting star. I see a vision of ecasy. When you hold me, I'm alive. We're like diamonds in the sky. I knew that we'd be one right away. Oh, right away. At first sight, I felt the energy of sunray. I saw your eyes shine bright. [Music] You and I, we're beautiful like diamonds in the sky. I so alive. We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky. Shine bright like a diamond. Shine bright like a diamond. Shine bright like
014a diamond. Beautiful diamonds in the sky. Shine bright like a diamond. Shine bright. [Music] Yeah. Before we continue on with our presentation for Oakdale Elementary, we wanted to give you just a little teaser of what the steel drum sound can do to a classical recorder song. So, here's Hot Cross Buns with Blaine Turner and Maline Sinnate. The steel drum edition [Music] All [Applause] right. Thank you, Mr. K and Meline and Blaine. Um, we are very proud of them. It takes a lot of nerve to get up there and sing and Serenity does an amazing job, too. The next I have is our student council. I have Henley and then I have Hattie, Gracie, Brayen, and Meline. And they want to tell you a little bit about Oakville. At Oakdale, we love bait. From drop off
015to pick up, we love being in all aspects of our day. It truly takes a village. At Oaka, our parents push in for extra support. They take groups during center time and work on skills that teacher that the teacher has chosen for them. This helps to make sure kids don't fall behind and to push the kids that already have mastered the skill. We like centers because they are fun and we can work with our peers. Teacher time is one of our favorite centers because we can work with our teacher in a smaller setting and if we need help, our teacher's right there. Not only do we love big in the classroom, we love big in our specials areas as well. Every two weeks, we travel through all three specials during a week we call learning
016extensions. For example, for my class, we start in art and then we go to library and we end in music. Each day, a different grade level attends all three specials. While we are specials, our teachers meet to look over our test and our progress. They talk about how they can improve their instruction and how they can meet our needs better. Like we said, it truly takes a million. Next, we will win time stands for what I need. After diving into the data, our teachers plan lessons based on their skills that are that are on our level. Whether it's closing the gap or pushing further into a standard, it's all hands on deck when it comes to OPA. We love big not only through academics, but through every morning from 8 to 8:20, all classrooms can
017be seen having morning. During this time we learn how to work together, how to problem solve and the basics of a being a good six. We are learning and practicing skills at this time that will we will be able to use aspects of our life through waiver. We are learning how to stand up for others and to better communicate our feelings to our friends. In addition to morning meetings, we have lunch bunch where students are able to eat with different teachers throughout the building. Our SRO even has a group that she eats with weekly. This is a time to also work on social skills and again build a safe environment for our students to thrive. At Oakdale, we know sometimes things can get hard and we will need ways to work through our frustrations. We
018love big by having a safe spaces for us students when things get hard or stressful. Every classroom has an amydala reset area. This is where students can go if they are feeling frustrated or stressed or and just need a break to breathe and reset their brains. We also have a minds and motion room for added movement break. We have a sensory path right outside our cafeteria as well for added movement breaks. We also love big through our Friday tribes. Tribes are when older and younger kids get to socialize with each other and do fun activities together. This year each tribe they made a turkey and put feathers all over with what we were thankful for. We also have tribe competitions. One tribe meeting everyone met in the gym to have a tug of war competition.
019It was a lot of fun. We love big through our community in involvement. Student council led a canned food drive in which we donated many items to the war resource center. The food was also used to help with our Thanksgiving baskets which were put together by our social worker SRO and youth first worker. These baskets went to families in need. Our staff and community members also helped to sponsor families so that we were able to give Christmas presents to families at school. Finally, we love breakth through our celebrations that are fun for teachers and students. Each year we have two title nights where you can bring your families and friends to school. For example, we had a barnyard bash title night. It was a blast. The gym was filled with animals and Mr. K even
020had us line dancing. We also created art using tractors and paint and much much more. Our principal does fun celebrations for our teachers like rock paper scissor competition as well as hiding turkeys around the school for teachers to find for a prize. have a special video here. I love Oakdale because all the teachers here are so nice. So, I love working at Oakdale because it's such a family and all the people here love the kids so much and it's awesome to know that came here and they received so much love while they were here and I'm excited I can be here and show other kids love. I'm happy to be in Oakfield because there's teachers that can help me learn more things that I didn't learn in Peru. So that's why I have I'm happy
021to be here. Why do you like working at I like being a positive influence on the kids. I love interacting with kids, how playful they are and all the staff here so friendly and they genuinely love the kids. I love because you get to draw with your friends at art and sing with your friends at music and you can also go to library and read with your friends and sit by each other and talk and talk sometimes and go to recess and play with your friends and go seeing your teachers um when you go to school and doing That's awesome. Hi, I'm Carly and I I'm in fifth grade, Miss King's class. I love Oakdale because all the teacher are really nice, sweet, and all you can make lots of new friends here. I love
022Oakdale because all the teachers here are so nice. Principal always cleans out fun stuff for us to do. The teachers are so kind and I get to hang out with my friends. for specials. There's always fun crafts and whenever it's lunch, the lunch ladies always make food and it's always really good. I love Oakdale because I love math and my teachers. Hi, I love working at Oakdale because I love watching the students grow and the staff here are so loving and friendly. I like Oakdale because I get to be with my friends. I like like Oakdale because I can do science in my classroom and I like the gym. I love Oakdale because I get to go to recess and play with my friends. We love [Applause] Hope every day each and every one of
023us everyone of our staff members from secretarian to staff and teachers. We feel safe, respected, loved, and ready to learn. We're about to have a good day. Good [Music] day. Good day. Good day in every single way. [Applause] I thought you ladies were the cheer. Also, so the song that they sang is what we uh end our announcements with. Um, so it starts our day off on a bright note. Good job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good job. Thank you for coming. Great. That was great. That was good. So proud of you. Thank you. Love your drums. Nice job. Thanks for coming. Thanks to anyone who's here this evening uh for the spotlight, you're more than welcome to stay for our meeting, but you certainly don't have to. So, if you would like to
024leave, you're welcome to. Otherwise, we're going to move on with the meeting. Dr. Next, we have recognition of And then cohort number three. Yes. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. Uh, tonight we would like to recognize I think we have four or five of our participants with us here, but I will name everybody who was part of the group this year. Um, this is our third cohort of aspiring administrators. So, these are people who are already have their administrative license or they are in the process of getting their administrative license. And we meet usually four times a year. Those meetings are typically half day and we do everything from just uh general leadership development, what it means to be a good leader, different leadership styles, things like that. One of the favorite things I think of this
025group u they like for us to put a scenario in front of them if this were to happen. Sometimes it's a special ed scenario or a finance scenario or um a parent phone call scenario or a a staff issue scenario. So, we like to put those in front of them and then we let them work through it and they try to figure out what they would um what they might do. And they've heard me say this many times. Always look at what things what are we looking at with our scenarios? What does the law say? What does the policy say? Yes. So, we work through those things. Um they also really enjoy our principal panels. I appreciate um typically we have around three principles who come in and they have some Q&A time with them
026so they get some real answers from people who are sitting in those positions right now. And then just last week we held mock interviews with this group for the ones who wanted to participate. So, we went through five or six questions and then we stopped and we just gave them some overall feedback and then went through uh the individual questions and were able to give them some additional feedback along with some possible next steps for growth. Um, so it's been a great fun group. So, at without any further ado, I will announce uh and name the people who are here. I'm just have you stand up when I say your name and then I'll also announce the people who were unable to be here tonight. So, first we have from Castle North Middle School, Mr.
027Josh Bodin. Just staying, please. Uh, from Boomville High School, we have Angie Glattish. Boom Middle School, Brianna Bieber. From Sharon Elementary, Melissa Parker. We have a couple from Oakdale. So, they're like dual roles here tonight. Uh, so from Oakdale, we have Mrs. Holly Meyer. Also from Oakdale, Mr. K. And then unable to be with us tonight, uh, Mr. Pat Harmon from Castle High School, Mrs. Stephanie Roose from Castle South Middle School, and Mrs. Sam Tulie, uh, who's our War County School Corporation special ed coordinator. Um, I appreciate these people who are working their full-time jobs and are eager to learn and grow and it takes some time and then we take them out of class just for a short amount of time. But, uh, it's been worth it and and I hope they feel like
028it's been worth it as well. So, thank you for being here tonight. I'd love to give them a hand. Yes. And you guys are also welcome to say, but you don't have to. That's really exciting to have this opportunity feedback and so forth. That's great. Our next agenda item, consideration of routine business. Dr. Red. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. The routine businesses this evening includes approving the minutes of the schoolboard meeting held on March 17, 2025 and approving the claims and signing the docka for April 14th, 2025. I recommend the board approve the routine items as presented. Second. We have a motion by Mrs. Wilhelm, seconded by Mr. Mosby. We have any discussion? Okay. All in favor, please say I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Next, consideration of items for board action. Dr. Redmond. Thank you, Mrs.
029Glover. Item 8.1, Director of Student Services, Dr. Walter Lambert, is requesting the board to review and approve the updated 2025 2026 student handbook for the elementary students. I recommend the board approve the request as presented. We have a motion by Mr. France, seconded by Mr. Baker. Any discussion? I think one thing is we Dr. Lambert worked with the principles to go through this and a lot of the policy per out and reference that via the so that the links will go back to the website rather than printing it in a massive document. So I appreciate Dr. L's work on this and I think it's a much better product. All in favor say I opposed. Motion carried. Next item, approve the clinical affiliation agreement with Purdue University. Thank you, Mrs. Lever. Director of Human Resources, Dr.
030Doug Gresham is requesting the board to approve a clinical affiliation agreement between the trustees of Purdue University and Warick County School Corporation. This agreement outlines the details which will allow Purdue students enrolled in the department of speech, language, and hearing sciences to partner with Warick County School Corporation for a professional or clinical education experience. I recommend the board approve this agreement as presented. Second. We have a motion by Mr. Baker, seconded by Mr. France. Any discussion? We do. So this is essentially their version of student teaching or our speech language. Sometimes we have agreements for school psychologists. It's just being able to place them in war county during their internship student teaching type experiences. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Next item, approve boys volleyball club. Dr.
031Thank you, Mrs. Glover. Castle North Middle School principal, Mr. John Bertram, has submitted a request to start a boys volleyball club that will be based at Castle North Middle School. I recommend the board approve this request as presented. Motion to approve. A motion by Mr. Mosby, seconded by Mr. France. Any discussion? Yeah, I have a question. Do you know Is this open to all the boy students across the county? They can go there and join the club or this is for the castle feeder schools. Castle feeder school. Yes. Yes. So the at this point they have a staff member who was willing to volunteer to do it. There was a interest in that part of the county. So that's why it's started and landed here. And of course, if we have other schools and students
032who would like to start something at their schools, we are absolutely open to that as well. This is not a paid position. Correct. Yes. Correct. But that is an IHSAA sanctioned sport now. So I I think it's an is it sanctioned or an emerging sport? Boys, I was just ask I thought that one was added. They just approved. girls wrestling and girls. Boys volleyball. So, yeah. So, now it's a for now it's a club. We'll see where it goes. Yes. Any more? All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Next agenda item is approve course additions. Dr. Redmond. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. Director of Learning, Mr. Jason Bischer is asking the board to consider approving the addition of the following high school course offerings for the 2526 school year. The first course
033is called topics in computer science and the second course is called computer science. I recommend the board approve the course additions as presented. Second motion by Mrs. Wilhelm, seconded by Mr. Baker. Any discussion? All all the high all three high schools. It's anytime we pass, anytime we bring one to the board, it's available to all of the schools in the district. All those in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion carry. Agenda item 85, approve supervised clinical practice agreement with UEE. Dr. Redmond. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. Director of Human Resources, Dr. Doug Gresian is requesting board approval to enter into a supervised clinical practice agreement with the University of Evansville. This agreement is to provide education experiences for the clinical psychology program students with the objective of producing competent graduates upon degree completion. It defines the
034basis on which the WCSC serves as a clinical education facility for the University of Evansville students. The agreement has been reviewed and approved by the board attorney, Mr. Cliff Whitehead. I recommend the board approve this agreement as presented. So move motion by Mr. Mosby seconded by Mr. France. Any discussion? So do the do the students job shadow the psychologist or how's this going to work? So each of the programs I think are a little different. Some of them are required to get a certain number of practicum hours. Sometimes that means shadowing. Sometimes it's a release of responsibility. So they may start out observing and shadowing. Then the supervisor, hour person in WCSC will then observe them practicing with students and it just evolves from there. Just like a student teacher comes in with alongside a
035teacher, observes and watches and then sometimes they do lessons together and then eventually the student teacher is teaching the courses. Okay. All right. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Next item, approve renovation project at the war education center. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. Assistant principal, Mr. Todd Armstrong, excuse me, assistant superintendent, Mr. Todd Armstrong, is requesting the board to approve Danco Construction, Inc. as the lowest responsive responsible bidder for the work education center office and classroom renovation project. I recommend the board approve this request as presented. Have a motion for Mr. Baker, seconded by Mr. Mosby. Any discussion? So, the alternate two is not being done at all. Okay. Just keeping the current office space for now. office building. So keeping it there. Thank you. All those in favor say I.
036I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next agenda item, approved donations. Dr. Redmond. Thank you, Mrs. Glover. We have several donations this evening. At Castle Elementary School, a $5,190 donation from Newberg Youth Basketball to purchase a scorers table. At Log Elementary School, a $7,571 donation from the PTO to purchase a roof shade structure from Willie Goat Playground Equipment. At Yankeetown Elementary School, a $1,000 donation from Newberg Youth Basketball to purchase an electric hoist for the basketball goal. At Castle North Middle School, a $600 donation from Newberg Youth Basketball to purchase gym equipment, uniforms, and first aid kits. At Castle South Middle School, a $600 donation from Newberg Youth Basketball to purchase gym equipment such as basketballs, soccer balls, etc. At Tecumpsa High School, a $2,750 donation from Quail Forever to the Tecumpsa Clay Target team to be
037used for supplies. And at Castle High School, a $2,250 donation from Second Nature Landscape to purchase a hypothm plasma cutter for the metals and machine classes. I recommend the board approve the donations as presented. We have a motion from Mrs. Wilhelm, seconded by Mr. Skinner. Any discussion? When I first read the request, I thought they were requesting billy goats on the playground. That might actually be fun. That would be fun. Cut down on some lawn maintenance. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. And again, extremely grateful for these generous generous donations that really help out the individual schools. Thank you so much. Next agenda item, consideration of personnel recommendations. Dr. Gresham. Thank you, Mrs. Mohammed. The human resource office has the following business to bring before the board tonight. Agenda item
0389.1, consideration of employment certified staff. Nancy Berick, special education teacher at Newberg Elementary School for the 2526 school year. Valerie Binkley, ABS, special education teacher at John H. Castle Elementary for the 2526 school year. Julianne Shaw, special education teacher at Oakdale Elementary for 2526 school year. Andrea Bole, counselor at Tumsy High School for 2526 school year. And Andrea Kupler, math teacher at Castle High School for 2526 school year. The following non-certified staff. Angela Wolsey, program assistant at Castle High. Kathy Gford, program assistant at Castle High. Susan Smith, class D maintenance at Bumbo High School. Briana Fetcher, ABS program assistant at Sharon Elementary School for 2526 school year. Britney Jennings, ABS program assistant at Sharon Elementary School for 2526 school year. Following varsity coaches, Joshua Kaine, girls varsity basketball coach at Castle High School. Jonathan Bats,
039boys varsity football coach at Booneville High School and assistant principal Kayla Russell to be the assistant principal at John H. Castle Elementary School. Motion to approve. Second. Motion by Mr. Mosby, seconded by Mrs. Wilhelm. Any discussion? All those in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. Agenda item 9.2, consideration of employment. Jenna Bradshaw, a subprogram assistant at John H. Castle Elementary School. Motion by Mr. Baker, seconded by Mr. France. Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. Agenda item 9.3 leaves. Jessica Baker, exercise science QT at work pathways and career center. Christina Lane, special education teacher at Log Elementary. Stacy McDonald, 4.5 hour cafeteria position at Castle High. Steven Michaels, custodian at Oakdale Elementary. Kylie Thornberry, speech language pathologist. Morgan Greenwell, nurse at Castle
040High School. JC Turner, secretary to administration building. and Caitlyn Valdemz, math teacher at Castle High School. Second. Motion by Mr. Frank, second it by Mr. Skinner. Any discussion? All in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? I'm going to stayain with my daughter and I have a new grandson. Thank you. I think motion's carried. Okay. We have one extension. Yes. Thank you. Agenda item 9.4. Report of transfers. Jimmy Campbell, cafeteria manager at Tennyson Elementary to cafeteria manager at Yktown Elementary. Split time with Tennyson Elementary. Lisa Buyers, art music title one teacher at Tennyson Elementary to elementary teacher at Yankeetown Elementary. Maria Shirley, third and fourth grade teacher at Tennyson Elementary to fourth fifth grade teacher at Elbertville Elementary. Ashley Blandford, 6.5 hour cafeteria position at Bumbo Middle to 5.0hour zero hour cafeteria position at Castle
041North Middle. Agenda item 9.5, report change. Kelly Fortune, multi-responsibility position, currently a clerical aid at WC and bus driver will be going to just clerical aid at WC. 9.6, resignations. Crystalin Williams, facts teacher at Castle High School, resignation effective June 1st, 2025. Cory Canal, business teacher and girls varsity basketball coach at Tumpsy High School. Resignation effective June 1st, 2025. Kateria Hernandez Martinez, special education teacher at Sharon Elementary School. Resignation effective June 1st, 2025. Allison McDonald, first grade teacher at John H. Castle Elementary School. Resignation effective June 1st, 2025. Kenneth Barnett, fourth grade teacher at Chandler Elementary School. Resignation effective June 1st, 2025. Ethan Wilkinson, band director at Castle High School. Resignation effective June 1st, 2025. Latricia Barnes, third grade teacher at John H. Castle Elementary School. Resignation effective June 1st, 2025. Rance Brown, math teacher
042and athletic director at High School. Resignation effective June 23rd, 2025. Lane Steeler, special education teacher at John H. Castle Elementary School. Resignation effective June 1st, 2025. Ellen Riley, ABS, program assistant at Sharon Elementary School. Resignation effective June 1st, 2025. Christopher Lanin, temporary program assistant at Newberg Elementary School, resignation effective March 20th, 2025. Madison Campbell, program assistant at Newberg Elementary School, resignation effective March 18th, 2025. Stephanie Kaine, program assistant, Castle High School, resignation effective April 7th, 2025. Madison Ratliff, temporary abs program assistant at Sharon Elementary School, resignation effective April 1st, 2025. Ronda Schmidt, program assistant at Bundville Middle School, resignation effective April 25th, 2025. Cynthia Ferman, varsity girls and boys swim team coach at Tumy High School, resignation effective April 7th, 2025. Abby Green, program assistant at Castle South Middle School, resignation effective June 1st, 2025.
043Tammy Downing, program assistant at Booneville Middle School, resignation effective June 1st, 2025, and 9.7 retirements. Rhonda Kundiff, custodian at Jensen Elementary School, retirement effective July 7th, 2025. And Mark Poston, custodian of Bloomville Middle School, retirement effective June 1st, 2025. Thank you, Dr. Gresian. Next agenda item is Oh, reports. Dr. Redwin. Thank you, Mrs. Clever. Uh, we have two reports tonight. Our first report will be from Mr. Jason Fischer. Good evening. Student uh learning and growth committee um met recently to discuss uh the i3 testing and the ilearn testing that is currently taking place in the school corporation. Um we concluded the i3 testing in our school corporation at the end of March. Um with the current legislation, we have another opportunity for students to take the exam again at the end of May while school
044is still in session for grade three. And for students who may need uh additional assistance. This summer we will have uh summer school I read3 testing or I read three school pardon me at Chandler Elementary and we will be offering also I read school at Oakdale Elementary for grade two students. Um in addition to that we just began our iLearn assessment uh today. This is the opening of the window throughout the state of Indiana. The IDLearn assessment will uh be given in grades three through eight. We test math in English language arts and all of those uh grade areas in grades three through eight. We also test science in grades four and grade six. And the testing window for the iLearn will be from uh today and it will conclude at on Friday, May the
0459th. So, we have the testing window that just began today and it will conclude May 9th. Um, interestingly enough, that additional I read three testing window that I was discussing that will open the following Monday after the iLearn assessment closes in grades three through eight. This is also um the testing window uh for iLearn biology which all of our freshmen take in the high schools. And we also have the I am window which is also an assessment that some of our students with special needs take. Uh tomorrow we are having um math presentations for our grades 6 through 12 uh here at central services for our teachers to look at uh the math materials that we have been currently piloting in grades 6 through 12. And we will also have u those presentations available on
046Wednesday night. So, we have two sessions of math presentations tomorrow and on Wednesday night. In grades 6 through 12, we are currently considering three providers. And at the high school level, grades 9 through 12, we are looking at two providers at this time. I thought it was I was encouraged that little students in the video, they love the math and they love the science. And I thought that was great. and it's encouraging. Thank you. Our second report tonight is from Dr. Walter Lambert. All right. Thank you. Um in your packet you should have the student transfer uh numbers. So every year we have to submit these to the board so that you recognize that those numbers are what we came up with and then we post these on the website. So this is for all
047um anybody that would be a non-resident transfer to War County. And so that this list shows each grade level and how many students we can take. It's based on capacity, uh number of teachers, things like that. And so we list all the schools that can take students per grade. Um the only school that is close to any nonresident transfers would be Castle uh Elementary. Um every other school um has some capacity to take on students. So we will do that. This will be posted this week. Um and then we will open up the non-resident transfer uh portal uh right about May 1st. That will also include the intracorporation transfer uh portal as well. It's on the same form. Those are for people that hey I live in the Chandler district but yet I want to
048attend uh Oakdale or another school within the the corporation. So we'll open that up on that time. It will close on July 1st. that's also been reported to the state as well. And then um just a side note with these numbers and capacities, if we go over the number, let's say we'll use an example like um Oakdale Elementary and third grade. Let's say we say the number is 10. If we have 20 students want to be in that school, if we can look at our capacity again and take them in, we'll take them in. If we can't, then we have to do what's called a lottery. And again, this is for non resident transfer. These are people that live in other counties. Um, Vanderberg, Pike, wherever. Um, so we would do that lottery. It would
049be a public lottery and then we would pick the 10 names that would be attending and then go forward with that. So, we've never had to do a lottery before. We usually been okay with our numbers. Um, but with transfer tuition no longer being a part of what Indiana allows for the corporation, um, I see that we'll probably get a few more non-resident transfers. We do when we look at them, they have to let us have their records, um their transcripts, their attendance and their discipline records. Attendance and discipline can preclude them from attending our schools. Um if they've been suspended 10 days or more at another school corporation, they are not allowed in. If they've had 10 days or more of absences, they are not allowed in as well. uh we can't say you
050can't come in if you have low grades so or uh a disability or something like that. So um so we'll put that on the um website and everybody can see that and then the form as I said will open up on uh May 1st questions thank you Mrs. Glover, I just had a few things. Okay. Okay. Um, first, as you heard in public comment, uh, we are going to be able to keep the doors of Tennyson Elementary open. We're excited about that and, uh, I believe Mrs. House sent home messaging to parents today, uh, through Synergy email and through a letter that was sent home, um, I think hard copy and agenda books today. So, all of the current families who are attending school there should be aware of that as of today. Um, and
051yes, it has been difficult when we have to have these conversations about how to take cost-saving measures. But I will I would just like to to point out that if you remember after the last work session, one of the first things I said we needed to do was to go back and sit down with Mrs. to see if we can have school in a way that is still student centered, small class size, the things that the Tennyson Elementary community and families love about that school to make sure that we could still accomplish that if we had to um look at some cost-saving measures. And she was able to come up with multiple versions of a schedule that would allow that with fewer staff members. And also just so everybody is aware, we are still looking
052at projected numbers for next year is around 50 students and we will still have five full-time staff there plus the principal who will be there every day next year along with um the ability to help support in the teaching realm as well. So we're still looking at a 10 to one student toteer class ratio. So we are confident that we are keeping the students in the center of these decisions and the community at the center of these decisions and sometimes um it's difficult and hard when we have to take cost-saving measures but sometimes the adults are the ones who have to um we have to be the ones to to move or to understand that when we put kids first sometimes it's hard on us as the adult and it's hard certainly on the staff
053members who were affected. by these decisions. Um but again trying to keep the kids in the school at the center of the decision. So um so we're looking forward to continuing to look at some of the other things that were have been brought to us. Um I know Mr. Armstrong and our team the last couple of weeks have talked about some potential things that we might be able to do with busing. Uh we're looking at some of those other things as well because obviously long term we would love to see enrollment increase at Tennessee initiatives that Dr. Lambert spoke about. Yes, you know that's a possibility as well to grow the enrollment at Tennyson with no transfer tition. That's a possibility as well. So absolutely. Y yes. 33 years ago I was on this board
054and at that time we had to take the principal to halftime. The school corporations made the 33y year commitment to keeping the school open and I don't think that's stopped any now but I would tell the parents to come at Tennyson. I'm sorry that it's we would appreciate all the help you can because it's real easy for us to go some say go to Tennessee. The people that are up there are the ones that should be saying come to Tennessee and all the help we can get from the community would be very helpful because I think the school corporation and the superintendent we're doing everything we can to keep that a viable school as we have for the last 33 years. Thank you. And then just a couple of other things to note. Um, it's
055always fun in the spring because we have our spring musicals and plays and I just wanted to give a shout out to all of our theater students. Uh, last month High School put on 9 to5. I was able to attend that and then last week at Tecumpsa High School they performed Charlotte's Web which was very cute and had a lot of the little elementary students uh part of the play as well and the students did an outstanding job with that. And then this week, Castle is rotating two shows, Almost Maine and Anatomy of Gray. So, I believe I have tickets either Wednesday or Thursday night for that. So, just shout out to all of the theater students and some of the the shows if musicals then also include music students, the the technical students, all
056of those things. Uh it takes a lot to get these shows put together and they always do an outstanding job and I just wanted to give them a shout out in the middle of our season here. And uh in other good news, we are able to this summer, it's a little early, but I wanted to get this on everybody's radar. This summer, we are going to be able to offer summer feeding again to our families. Uh this information will go directly to all of our families through Synergy. The food and nutrition department, Mrs. Ralph, does a great job of making sure it goes straight to our families. But just to put it on your radar, this summer at Chandler and at Oakdale, we will have sun meals, meaning that between the date of May 28th
057and June 20th, that breakfast between 8 and 9 and lunch between 11 and 12 will be open to people who are 18 years of age and younger can go to either one of those sites to have breakfast and or lunch. And then in addition to that, we have the Sun Meals to go. Uh we did this last summer as well. This was a huge hit um at Boomville Middle, Lynville, and Tennyson between June 4th and July 23rd. Um Mrs. Ralph will send out an opportunity for families to sign up. You sign up for it and then you check mark your pickup location and then that is um available to any family who signs up. The times and things are different at each of the schools. Again, that'll go out through an email to the families.
058Um, but that's basically meals, literally meals to go for the week. So, appreciate all the hard work from food and nutrition to see that we were able to do this again. And of course to all of the employees who work this and prep these meals over the summer um to make sure our students and families who need and want to eat lunch or breakfast at school can still do that. So, thank you to the food and nutrition department. And then I think the last thing I wanted to announce um just put another thing to put on your radar. On May 3rd, Freiedman Park and Studio B and Mary Joe Huff are all working together for a it's called Day of Play and Bor County will have a booth there this year. So we'd love to
059see everybody out there. It's designed for uh children between the ages of three and 10. It's a free event and there are a lot of different community groups out there and it's just a day where the park is open and you can bring your children, walk through the park, go to all the different booths and there's like song and dance and music and activities and things for children and it's literally a day of play. What was the date again? May 3rd, Saturday, May 3rd. Fun. So, pack a picnic basket and food trucks. Oh, food truck. Yes. Okay. Lastly, we have other board business. Anything from the board? Yeah, we have a instruction meeting tomorrow morning at 7:30 in administration building. And then on Friday morning at 7:30, we have a personnel committee meeting in the
060administration building. Tomorrow we have a student learning. Is that 11:30? It's not It's not tomorrow. Last week, [Music] please don't rush it. Looking forward to that meeting. I better write that one down. That one. Thank you. April 29th. Thank you. And then also I would like to give a shout out to the War County Farm Bureau. I understand that we had a days earlier. Yes. Yes. I'm not sure when that was, but uh they do a great program for our third graders and that is just an amazing day for our kiddos. So takes a lot of coordination and work on their part and sure certainly appreciate that. Yes. And they also incorporate our FFA students and our A students and it's a really great day for our kids. Yes. Thanks for bringing that up. policy
061committee will next meet May 12th at 5:45. And I' I'd like to give a well first I I just like to commend Toby Lannard who's a student at war pathways setting ENT who was able to use his skills and what he learned in class to help with the medical emergency there until the AMR showed up. And I I'm just so proud of that kid. He's not even my child or student, but I just thought I was just blown away by that and just proud of him and I'd like to see him come if you can. Okay, sure. And then we had a legislative update. We're winding down getting it's getting hairy. So, state uh Senate Bill 287 regarding partisan school board election was not called for a vote last week and has been sent to
062a conference committee for more negotiations. So, there may be another call to action alert. Just keep that on your radar. Uh Sen Senate Bill One, local government finance. House Ways Means Committee passed out a vastly different version of Senate Bill One. Uh the bill as a amended is now over 350 pages long and focus on various tax credits in includes Senate Bill 518 on property tax revenue sharing with charter schools. My sympathies and condolences to whoever has to read those 350 pages to analyze and bookmark those. As it relates to school corporation, the amended bill will result in a substantial decrease in the estimated net property tax revenue for over the 290 school corporations in the state. And for some school corporations, the impact will be a decrease in the increase in levy dollars. uh
063has been sent back to Oh, you can find the link on the schoolboard association's website that has a fiscal impact statement prepared by the legislative services to see how the different schools how how these revenues will impact the different corporations over the next three years. Is that if you want I have if you want the numbers I have them. Um so for us it would be over the three years it would be 5.6 million that we would lose. So you know if you want programs if you want schools if you want to continue the program we have Mory County. I would urge everyone to call your legislators because everybody likes to have less taxes, but less taxes mean less schools, less students, teachers, and less programs. It is not free. And so, I think it's
064really important that people, if you are serious about keeping schools open and kids educated, that you call your legislators and tell them that that's important because they're hearing a whole bunch of people who say it's not. And to be And to be clear, that's okay. Everybody in the vicinity was at the capital today. It was a teacher action day. So what we have to do when they tried to a bill, our pension bill. Yes. Um we had some teachers attend today as well, that event. And um Mr. Baker, just to add on, this also impacts school li or excuse me, libraries, municipalities. It's not just the school system. So, please just do your homework and look into to that bill and um you'll see the impact and you can find those impact statements online. Lastly,
065the Senate Appropriations Committee passed out the Senate version of House Bill 1001 for the state's budget. The Senate's version of the budget does not include the expansion of choice scholarship program to make it a universal program with no income elig eligibility guidelines. Instead, the support formula results in a tuition support increase of about 2 thou 2% per school year rather than the 1% that was proposed by the House. In addition, the new version includes an increase in the per student foundation amount as well as increased funding for special ed and English language learners students by 5% per year. This is the final version of the budget and possibly the best one that they probably the best we're going to get on the table so far. Legislative session ends April 29th. You may or may not
066get another update. Thank you, Mrs. B. Anything else? Thank you. Meetings adjourned. At 5:30, we'll have a work session and the board will meet at 7:30. 7. 7. I did it again. Board meets at 7. Thank you. [Music]