Students in the West Carroll Special School District will continue to do virtual learning at home on Fridays for at least several more weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the Jan. 11 Board of Education meeting, a majority of board members voted to extend virtual Fridays through March 12 on the recommendation of Director of School Dexter Williams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
West Carroll schools went to a four-day week for in-person attendance following Fall Break back in October on Williams\u2019 recommendation with approval from the school board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Williams, virtual Fridays give teachers a bit of a breather from having to both teach attending students in the classroom and provide distance learning for students who are either quarantined or have opted to do distance learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Board member Misty Mitchell made the motion to extend virtual Fridays, and she and board members Kim Smith, Jeremy Jackson, and David Hilliard voted in favor of the motion. Board member Patrick Lindsey voted against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The board will revisit the issue at the March meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In other business:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022The board acknowledged the resignation of primary school cafeteria worker Lucy Hanks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022The board voted to table a review of the director\u2019s contract until June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022The board voted to bid out lawn care services for the next school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022After considerable discussion, the board opted not contract out school janitorial services, though they agreed to look into possibly hiring more custodians and increasing pay and providing other assistance for custodians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022The 2021-22 school year calendar was approved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022First reading approval was given to six board policy updates, including updates dealing with fundraising activities, charter school applications, textbooks and instructional materials, physical examinations and immunizations, medicines, and local COVID-19. The board went ahead a gave final approval to the policy update on local COVID-19 and tabled the first reading on a policy update regarding interrogations and searches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022Williams advised the board that the school district will be receiving a second round of federal COVID-19 relief funding, which will be larger at around $1.38 million and less restrictive than the $234,000 received in the first round back in the spring of 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Students in the West Carroll Special School District will continue to do virtual learning at home on Fridays for at least several more weeks. During the Jan. 11 Board of Education meeting, a majority of board members voted to extend virtual Fridays through March 12 on the recommendation of Director of School Dexter Williams. West…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":13288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,306,242,305,260],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsleaderonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}