Butler R-V Board of Education meeting
New Business
The board heard reports from Marci Beckley about Special Education and Early Childhood Special Education.
The board considered a request to use the parking lots by the Bear Backers for the Bear Backer Race.
The board heard a report from the superintendent about legislative issues that have been filed.
SB 706, sponsored by Jane Cunningham attempts to pull funding from public schools for private schools and Charter schools, by providing vouchers to attend these schools. Private schools and Charter Schools have no accountability, can limit who they serve, and are not required to test students on performance. The bill also has a component where unaccredited school will pay tuition to neighboring schools, expands virtual schools, dissolves the Missouri High School Athletics Association, ties teacher evaluations to student performance and removes the consideration of seniority to school districts that are downsizing.
HB. 1526 Attempts to repeal teacher tenure, adopts a model for all schools on performance based teacher evaluations, which 50% of evaluations will be based on student performance.
The board of education has set the Ribbon Cutting ceremony for the track at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday February 18th. The date will mark the time when the public can begin using the facility.
Build level reports were given by Kirk Hannah and Stacey Lawson.
Closed Session:
The board approved the retirement requests of Lynne McLain and Holly Rabourn with congratulations and regret.
The board rehired the district administrators for the 2012-13 school year.
-courtesy FM 92 the Bullet
