April 13, 2016 at 7:00 PM - Regular Board of Education Meeting

Rationale: 

Members of the Killingly community are encouraged to share their thoughts with the Board of Education and are invited to do so during this segment of the meeting. When appropriate to do so, members of the Board and the administration may respond to comments. However, in consideration of those in attendance and in an effort to proceed in a timely manner, follow-up discussion may need to take place outside of the meeting setting.

 

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The following KIS students were selected, through a rigorous audition process, to participate in the Eastern Region Middle School Music Festival.  The festival took place on March  5 & 6th at RHAM and both the choir and instrumental performances were outstanding.  We  would to publicly recognize these students  and present them with Certificates of Achievement. They are:

Choir:

Joliana Reynolds
Allison Devolve
Laney Dunn

Band:
Madelyn Sumner
Russell Farnsworth

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Mr. James Hutson, Technology teacher at KHS and the State Director of the Technology Student Association (TSA) will address the board regarding the most recent state conference for TSA, held at KHS.

On Saturday, April 2nd, Killingly High School hosted 20 schools and 220 students from all over CT for the 38 th Annual CT State TSA Conference (Technology Student Association). Approximately 300 students, advisors, judges, parents, and guests attended the conference.   KHS hosted 44 different technology competitions for HS and MS students ranging from Biotechnology, Architectural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Public Speaking, Video Production, Photographic Technology and numerous other events.

Killingly HS was honored to receive several awards such as:
1st place - 3D Mechanical Engineering - Kevin Livernoche
Finalist - 2nd place- VEX Robotics-Johnaton Schings, Gino Ferraj, Aaron Fontaine, Karim Elgebaly
3rd place - Extemporaneous Speech - Sedona Pratt
3rd place - Dragster Design - Phylis Brown
KIS TSA received 1st place in Biotechnology
Three of our KHS students were elected to the CT State TSA Officer Team!
CT State TSA Treasurer, - Reid Dumas
CT State TSA Reporter - Sedona Pratt
CT State TSA Sargent of Arms - Joey Raheb

Rationale: 

Per Connecticut State regulations we are required to put our food services out to a bid process at a minimum every five (5) years.   A total of two (2) bids were received.  A committee was formed, led by our Manager of Business Affairs, Christine Clark. Based on State evaluation criteria the committee has made a recommendation to award the contract at this meeting. 

A draft of the contract will be submitted to the CSDE followed by an executed contract, due by May 30th.  The Board will also receive a copy of this contact for approval.

Rationale:  This grant application requires both the BOE approval and a resolution from the Town Council before the end of the current Fiscal year.

Rationale:  The Superintendent will summarize the monthly financial report as a portion of his monthly Superintendent's Report as attached.

Rationale:  Sally Sherman, Director of the Goodyear Early Learning Center will update the board on the progress of our Pre-K programs throughout the district.

Rationale:  Mr. Rioux will share the work of the Technology Committees at the building level throughout the district.

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There was  a significant overlap between proposed policies, (6172.6) Instruction On-line credit to the Distance Learning Policy and 6172.61.Instruction Credit for Online Courses.


The statutory criteria were already included in Policy 6172.61 (Credit for Online Courses).  As a result, it makes sense for the Board to consider and approve combining these two policies. The single policy governs all credits for online and virtual learning.
 

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