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The Northwest school board will be asked to accept a number of teacher resignations and also approve hiring several new teachers for next school year.
Staff members resigning include Jenna Davis, Chapman kindergarten; Melinda Moural, Northwest special education; Duane Coates, technology coordinator; and JaLena Clement, District 1-R math.
The board will be asked to approve hiring Doug Hermsen, alternative education at Northwest; Ryan Rathke, Northwest math; Turner Trofholtz, Northwest physical education; Rueben Burbach, Northwest strength training; Jenny Jameson, lower elementary, District 1-R; and Vanessa Schmit, upper elementary, District 1-R.
The board also will hear a report on how well the "sick bank" established during the last negotiations with teachers is working. Teachers with available sick days can bank those days for use by another teacher who has run out of sick days or perhaps has an illness that requires more sick days than are normally available.
The board will also hear a report on the new state aid bill, LB988. Under that new law, the Northwest school system will receive $209,000 less than it is receiving in state aid for the current school year.
The amount is also a little more than $1 million less than the amount that was supposedly "certified" to Northwest on Feb. 1. But with state tax receipts expected to decline this year, the amount of state aid to local schools was cut back significantly.
Business manager Sharon Placke said it is too soon to tell how Northwest will deal with the shortfall. But she said using the district's cash reserve and looking at staffing needs, especially for aides, to make sure it aligns with next year's enrollment are early candidates for exploration.
There also will be a report on a proposal to pave the grass area east of the football field and also repave the existing parking lot this summer. Placke said Superintendent Bill Mowinkel has met with engineers about the project.
Mowinkel also will talk about LB1157, which will mean that Nebraska students will be taking a single statewide test in reading, math and science. Grades 3 through 8 will be tested, along with one grade in high school.
The reading test will be administered in two years, the math test the following year and the science test the year after that. Nebraska already has a statewide writing test.
Before the change to LB1157, each individual school district was allowed to develop its own tests or assessments.
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