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| April 22,2007 Minutes Groveland Site Council Minutes April 22, 2008 In
attendance: Craig Roen, Jody Murphy,
Annette Hansen, Jessica Pihlstrom, Anneke Krall, Alikce Johnson, Theresa and
Jeff Rivera, Xeng Xiong, Tasha Klepp,
Chris McPartland, Deb Van Neste, Jeremey Lish, Connie Johnson, Ann Hobbie,
Allison Bittner, Sue King , Todd
O’Bert, Emmett Donnelly, Becky Pedersen, Julie Printz, Shannon McParland, Dawn
York, Julie Bach, Maddie McDonald??, Jeff
Sambs, Heather Sundberg, Jean Bergstrom, Jackie Hartman Minutes
were approved. Agenda was approved with
the addition of discussion around the budget and omission of the Celebrate
Groveland item. Principal’s report: Budget –
476 is projected enrollment for next year.
The high projection is due to an assumption that many Homecroft will come
to Groveland. LA students are moving to
other parts of the city where they cannot be bused here. The District
will assign new LA kids to other schools from here on out. Becky has planned for 3 Kindergarten
teachers with a plan to hire an additional teacher if enrollment is high. There’s a plan for one teacher aide. Carolyn Nelson is retiring next year. Priorities
for hiring:
To address
what could be larger classes in second grade, Becky could consider a 2/3 split
by taking 9 children from second grade.
She also presented the option of having a 4/5 split due to the fact that
we presently have 66 students going into the 4th grade and 48 in the 5th
grade. The alternative is to have larger classes but parents and staff felt
larger classes would work for this group of students. Teacher aides can be hired to help out with the larger classes if
the budget allows. From the discussion
it sounded like parents favored larger classes sizes to the split classes. Budget
issues generally come down to a lack of money, declining enrollment and loss of
students to charter schools. A parent
suggested that If parents wish to impact the budget, they should consider
learning more about how to do that by checking out www.parentsunited.com and www.psminnesota.org.
SCIP –
Becky reviewed the plan. A new SCIP
There were concerns voiced about behavior issues. Becky assured us that there will be a behavioral plan in place
next fall to deal with some of these issues.
Becky stressed that overall as a school Groveland has very few behavior
problems. Please contact Becky if you
have specific issues or want to have input on this but she is unable to address
a specific child’s issues with another parent. If you have
concerns with the info in the SCIP please contact Becky. Meeting was
adjourned at 7:15 p.m. | ||||