Warsaw School Board Approves Emergency Resolution To Fix Gym Roof
October 13, 2021 at 1:47 a.m.
Warsaw School Board Approves Emergency Resolution To Fix Gym Roof
By Jackie Gorski-
Chief Financial Officer April Fitterling said the floor in the Tiger Den has just been redone and there are leaks in the roof.
“They are happening in random and new places on the floor and we feel we need to take this to an emergency level and get the roof replaced,” Fitterling said.
The resolution states the chief financial officer, superintendent and facilities director can promptly and timely take all steps to repair and replace the roof. Fitterling said they are seeking more than one quote at this time and the resolution will give them the process of the getting the ball rolling.
Fitterling said she, Superintendent Dr. David Hoffert and Facilities Director Jim LeMasters will start the process with the best quote. They will keep the Board informed as they move forward. She said they want to move forward as fast as they can so there’s no more damage to the floor.
In other business, WCS administrator Dan Graney and Edgewood Middle School Principal Joella Hauselman updated the Board on how summer school went.
Summer school for elementary school was held at Lincoln Elementary School because Lakeview Middle School was undergoing construction.
There were 10 programs during summer school, up from seven. Those programs included Kindergarten Countdown and Kindergarten Reading Readiness program. There were three Dual Language Immersion classes at Lincoln. They also offered a STEM class, Graney said.
At Lincoln, there were 532 PowerSchool students with 50 certified staff members and 50 classified staff members in summer school.
He also talked about the improvement some third-grade students had in their IREAD scores during summer school. This year, they had 43 critical students, who needed to pass the IREAD test. The passing score for the IREAD test is a score of 446. They were able to test 40 of the 43 students. Of those 40 tested students, 33 of them showed growth. The average growth was 32 points with the highest individual growth 111 points. Thirteen of the 40 students were able to pass the IREAD test.
Hauselman said, normally, there isn’t a big gap of whether the student passed or not. They were looking to close maybe 10 or 15 points. Due to COVID-19, those students at summer school were impacted and the school corporation was looking at gaps as big as 100 or 200 points.
Summer school is 15 days long and the IREAD test was given on day 13 so any issues with the testing process were addressed, he said.
Board member Randy Polston asked what the state would do with the students who don’t pass the IREAD test. Graney said he wasn’t 100% sure.
Graney said the test results, from when the students took the test in the spring and when they took it in the summer, are sent to the elementary school principals so the principals can decide what they want to do next. Many of those students go into Response To Instruction. Some students are in the process of testing and that hasn’t happened yet.
Hauselman said the high school summer school program was done at Edgewood Middle School. There were 464 students who did the June credit/credit recovery program and 286 students did the July credit/credit recovery program.
WCS served over 1,443 students during its summer school program, when they added up all students who came in even for one day. That included students who participated in the high school or middle school band or middle school strings during the summer, Hauselman said.
Chief Financial Officer April Fitterling said the floor in the Tiger Den has just been redone and there are leaks in the roof.
“They are happening in random and new places on the floor and we feel we need to take this to an emergency level and get the roof replaced,” Fitterling said.
The resolution states the chief financial officer, superintendent and facilities director can promptly and timely take all steps to repair and replace the roof. Fitterling said they are seeking more than one quote at this time and the resolution will give them the process of the getting the ball rolling.
Fitterling said she, Superintendent Dr. David Hoffert and Facilities Director Jim LeMasters will start the process with the best quote. They will keep the Board informed as they move forward. She said they want to move forward as fast as they can so there’s no more damage to the floor.
In other business, WCS administrator Dan Graney and Edgewood Middle School Principal Joella Hauselman updated the Board on how summer school went.
Summer school for elementary school was held at Lincoln Elementary School because Lakeview Middle School was undergoing construction.
There were 10 programs during summer school, up from seven. Those programs included Kindergarten Countdown and Kindergarten Reading Readiness program. There were three Dual Language Immersion classes at Lincoln. They also offered a STEM class, Graney said.
At Lincoln, there were 532 PowerSchool students with 50 certified staff members and 50 classified staff members in summer school.
He also talked about the improvement some third-grade students had in their IREAD scores during summer school. This year, they had 43 critical students, who needed to pass the IREAD test. The passing score for the IREAD test is a score of 446. They were able to test 40 of the 43 students. Of those 40 tested students, 33 of them showed growth. The average growth was 32 points with the highest individual growth 111 points. Thirteen of the 40 students were able to pass the IREAD test.
Hauselman said, normally, there isn’t a big gap of whether the student passed or not. They were looking to close maybe 10 or 15 points. Due to COVID-19, those students at summer school were impacted and the school corporation was looking at gaps as big as 100 or 200 points.
Summer school is 15 days long and the IREAD test was given on day 13 so any issues with the testing process were addressed, he said.
Board member Randy Polston asked what the state would do with the students who don’t pass the IREAD test. Graney said he wasn’t 100% sure.
Graney said the test results, from when the students took the test in the spring and when they took it in the summer, are sent to the elementary school principals so the principals can decide what they want to do next. Many of those students go into Response To Instruction. Some students are in the process of testing and that hasn’t happened yet.
Hauselman said the high school summer school program was done at Edgewood Middle School. There were 464 students who did the June credit/credit recovery program and 286 students did the July credit/credit recovery program.
WCS served over 1,443 students during its summer school program, when they added up all students who came in even for one day. That included students who participated in the high school or middle school band or middle school strings during the summer, Hauselman said.
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