Warsaw Set To Evaluate Haworth
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
Dr. Robert Haworth has been on the job as Warsaw Schools' superintendent only six months, but his first evaluation is already due.
Monday, Haworth offered the school board two options to prepare his evaluation. He said the board could prepare the evaluations and submit them to school board president Ron Yeiter and he could prepare a report, or each board member could give their evaluations to Haworth himself. He asked that the evaluations be completed by Dec. 18.
Evaluations of other Warsaw administrators will be conducted in the upcoming year.
Dan Robinson, school board vice president, said he wanted to do it both ways. He said he wants evaluations to go to Yeiter for an overall report, but also to be given to Haworth so that he can see each evaluation.
While board member Chuck Sauders said he agreed with Robinson, he said he had problems with some of the categories on the evaluation form. Sauders said the form was fine for Haworth's evaluation, but wanted to fine-tune it before using it for other administrators.
Haworth said board members could present information beyond what was asked in the evaluations.
Director of Alternative Services Tony England said adult education will fall under scrutiny this legislative session. Specifically, England said, the legislators may move adult education from the Department of Education into the Department of Workforce Development's new "Office of 21st Century Career Education." With it would go about $24 million in state and federal funds. The money will be used to work with people who are undereducated, not uneducated, he said.
Adult Basic Education served more than 43,000 students in Indiana last year, England said. Warsaw Adult Education had 457 registered students, ranging in age from 16 to 80-something.
England said the school corporation should let legislators know Warsaw already has a good adult education program.
School board member Deb Wiggins said the shift puts more emphasis on work training and less on education. The money will be funneled through Ivy Tech.
England said the shift could decrease adult education effectiveness by 75 percent. He offered the school board a letter to submit to legislators, asking them to keep the funding with the Department of Education.
Jamie Lake, of Kovert Hawkins architectural firm, presented an update on the firm's meetings with faculty and staff of each Warsaw school regarding facilities and buildings. These meetings were held as part of step two of the process, called identification, to further define facility needs and deficiencies. He will provide the minutes of the meetings to the school board in the next few days.
The next will include the presentation of several options for the school corporation. Lake said the options will be grounded in the validity of the information gathered.
In other business, the school board:
• Heard from Haworth that "an alarming number" of students live outside the boundaries of Warsaw School Corp. but aren't paying tuition as required. The problem is being addressed, he said.
• Approved a 2 percent wage increase for all support personnel and a 2.5 percent increase for bus drivers.
Certified, administrative and special services personnel will receive a 1 percent increase. In addition, there will be a non-recurring net stipend of $500 for teachers on the master's degree schedule with 19 or more years of service, as well as a $500 deposit into an annuity for the same group.
Special services employees will receive a 2 percent increase, with administrators receiving a 1 percent increase in base salaries and a stipend based on contract days that averages 1 percent across the group.
The increases are retroactive to July 1.
• Approved a resolution for participation and issuing of warrants with the Indiana Bond Bank for 2007. The school corporation has borrowed money through bonding since 1989 as do most schools in the state.
• Granted Haworth permission to name a new student information system, specifically PowerSchool, for no cost to the school corporation. With student software system CenterPoint being phased out by its parent group, Pearson Educational Products, Pearson is offering PowerSchool for free. Haworth will evaluate one other system before deciding on PowerSchool.
• Heard from Sauders that he would like the school calendar committee to consider adding a day, Wednesday, to Thanksgiving break for next year and the years thereafter.
• Heard from Ana Juarez and Ray Monteith about the Grace College Sus Amigos Leadership Scholarship. The scholarship will be offered beginning next year and is for a student who goes through the Sus Amigos Mentoring program, has a high school cumulative grade point average of 9.3 or top 40 percent class rank, is admitted to Grace by March 1 and completes the FAFSA forms. The students who receive the scholarship will receive $12,500 per year for four years.
• Approved three change orders for the WCHS project for a net increase of $1,538.26.
• Accepted a $500 donation to Madison Elementary School from members of St. Anne's Church for school supplies for needy children.
• Approved personnel recommendations, including: resignation of Dale Beck, James Leeper and Richard Wolfe as wrestling coaches at Edgewood Middle School; resignation of Chris LaLonde as girls golf coach at Warsaw Community High School; hiring of Mike McCammon as the assistant men's swimming coach at WCHS.
• Heard from board member Tammy Dalton that WCHS's presentation of the musical "Guys and Dolls" was a job well done.
• Heard from Yeiter that during his campaign for re-election to the school board, he heard at least one person say they wouldn't buy any more boys basketball season tickets because of Coach Doug Ogle. Yeiter said that disturbs him because by not buying season tickets, fans are not supporting the students.
"I'm wondering if people might reconsider buying season tickets and support the kids," said Yeiter, despite their feelings about the coach.
• Watched a short video promoting the upcoming March 24 EdCom Expo.
• Recognized middle and high school students who were accepted into the Indiana Bandmasters Association Honor Band. Names and more information on appear on the education page 4B.
School board members are Cathy Folk, Chuck Sauders, Gene England, Ron Yeiter, Dan Robinson, Deb Wiggins and Tammy Dalton. [[In-content Ad]]
Dr. Robert Haworth has been on the job as Warsaw Schools' superintendent only six months, but his first evaluation is already due.
Monday, Haworth offered the school board two options to prepare his evaluation. He said the board could prepare the evaluations and submit them to school board president Ron Yeiter and he could prepare a report, or each board member could give their evaluations to Haworth himself. He asked that the evaluations be completed by Dec. 18.
Evaluations of other Warsaw administrators will be conducted in the upcoming year.
Dan Robinson, school board vice president, said he wanted to do it both ways. He said he wants evaluations to go to Yeiter for an overall report, but also to be given to Haworth so that he can see each evaluation.
While board member Chuck Sauders said he agreed with Robinson, he said he had problems with some of the categories on the evaluation form. Sauders said the form was fine for Haworth's evaluation, but wanted to fine-tune it before using it for other administrators.
Haworth said board members could present information beyond what was asked in the evaluations.
Director of Alternative Services Tony England said adult education will fall under scrutiny this legislative session. Specifically, England said, the legislators may move adult education from the Department of Education into the Department of Workforce Development's new "Office of 21st Century Career Education." With it would go about $24 million in state and federal funds. The money will be used to work with people who are undereducated, not uneducated, he said.
Adult Basic Education served more than 43,000 students in Indiana last year, England said. Warsaw Adult Education had 457 registered students, ranging in age from 16 to 80-something.
England said the school corporation should let legislators know Warsaw already has a good adult education program.
School board member Deb Wiggins said the shift puts more emphasis on work training and less on education. The money will be funneled through Ivy Tech.
England said the shift could decrease adult education effectiveness by 75 percent. He offered the school board a letter to submit to legislators, asking them to keep the funding with the Department of Education.
Jamie Lake, of Kovert Hawkins architectural firm, presented an update on the firm's meetings with faculty and staff of each Warsaw school regarding facilities and buildings. These meetings were held as part of step two of the process, called identification, to further define facility needs and deficiencies. He will provide the minutes of the meetings to the school board in the next few days.
The next will include the presentation of several options for the school corporation. Lake said the options will be grounded in the validity of the information gathered.
In other business, the school board:
• Heard from Haworth that "an alarming number" of students live outside the boundaries of Warsaw School Corp. but aren't paying tuition as required. The problem is being addressed, he said.
• Approved a 2 percent wage increase for all support personnel and a 2.5 percent increase for bus drivers.
Certified, administrative and special services personnel will receive a 1 percent increase. In addition, there will be a non-recurring net stipend of $500 for teachers on the master's degree schedule with 19 or more years of service, as well as a $500 deposit into an annuity for the same group.
Special services employees will receive a 2 percent increase, with administrators receiving a 1 percent increase in base salaries and a stipend based on contract days that averages 1 percent across the group.
The increases are retroactive to July 1.
• Approved a resolution for participation and issuing of warrants with the Indiana Bond Bank for 2007. The school corporation has borrowed money through bonding since 1989 as do most schools in the state.
• Granted Haworth permission to name a new student information system, specifically PowerSchool, for no cost to the school corporation. With student software system CenterPoint being phased out by its parent group, Pearson Educational Products, Pearson is offering PowerSchool for free. Haworth will evaluate one other system before deciding on PowerSchool.
• Heard from Sauders that he would like the school calendar committee to consider adding a day, Wednesday, to Thanksgiving break for next year and the years thereafter.
• Heard from Ana Juarez and Ray Monteith about the Grace College Sus Amigos Leadership Scholarship. The scholarship will be offered beginning next year and is for a student who goes through the Sus Amigos Mentoring program, has a high school cumulative grade point average of 9.3 or top 40 percent class rank, is admitted to Grace by March 1 and completes the FAFSA forms. The students who receive the scholarship will receive $12,500 per year for four years.
• Approved three change orders for the WCHS project for a net increase of $1,538.26.
• Accepted a $500 donation to Madison Elementary School from members of St. Anne's Church for school supplies for needy children.
• Approved personnel recommendations, including: resignation of Dale Beck, James Leeper and Richard Wolfe as wrestling coaches at Edgewood Middle School; resignation of Chris LaLonde as girls golf coach at Warsaw Community High School; hiring of Mike McCammon as the assistant men's swimming coach at WCHS.
• Heard from board member Tammy Dalton that WCHS's presentation of the musical "Guys and Dolls" was a job well done.
• Heard from Yeiter that during his campaign for re-election to the school board, he heard at least one person say they wouldn't buy any more boys basketball season tickets because of Coach Doug Ogle. Yeiter said that disturbs him because by not buying season tickets, fans are not supporting the students.
"I'm wondering if people might reconsider buying season tickets and support the kids," said Yeiter, despite their feelings about the coach.
• Watched a short video promoting the upcoming March 24 EdCom Expo.
• Recognized middle and high school students who were accepted into the Indiana Bandmasters Association Honor Band. Names and more information on appear on the education page 4B.
School board members are Cathy Folk, Chuck Sauders, Gene England, Ron Yeiter, Dan Robinson, Deb Wiggins and Tammy Dalton. [[In-content Ad]]