Flat Rock School Board Meeting Tonight-October 12, 2009

UPDATE: The Flat Rock School Board Agenda for tonight (10/12/2009) has been posted.
The Flat Rock Board of Education meets tonight at 7:00 p.m. in the Board of Education conference room (2nd floor, old Flat Rock High School). I haven’t seen an agenda, but a couple of things I would expect to hear discussed:

Update on student [...]

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Coffee with Michigan State Representative Deb Kennedy

I spent this morning having coffee with our State Representative Deb Kennedy. She hosts a monthly coffee at the Flat Rock Cafe. I think it’s a great idea for updating us on her activities in Lansing and listening to issues that are important to her constituents.
The talk, as you can imagine, was all about the [...]

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What is Formative Assessment?

The introduction of formative assessment into our children’s classrooms this year has been a learning curve for parents. There are numerous discussions around Flat Rock dinner tables, “What happened to the homework, what are all these quizzes about, what am I seeing in Zangle?”
I am one of those parents learning this new educational approach. I [...]

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Avoid Long Lines–Get Your Flat Rock Football Homecoming Tickets Early!

The Athletic Department is pre-selling General Admission tickets ($5) for Homecoming. The price is still $5.00, but you can avoid standing in long lines and missing the kick-off by purchasing early!
Tickets will be available during lunch from Eric Painter at the High School and Todd Dishon at the Middle School.
Also, as always Student [...]

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Results of Last Wednesday’s Count Day

Last Wednesday (9/30/2009) was a very important day in the financial future of Flat Rock Community Schools. It was “count day.” This is one of two days when students are counted within the districts to determine the allocation of state aid.
Here is how the News Herald covered the significance of this day:
Wednesday’s count is important [...]

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Michigan Budget Update: Education Funding Still in Jeopardy

Michigan is still without a viable balanced budget. However, the State only shut-down briefly before a continuation was past. A mixed blessing?
This debate and process is certain to be the single biggest impact to your children’s education in the next several years. Why?
You probably already know that K-12 public education is in the cross-hairs to [...]

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Michigan State Budget Update: Cut $218 Per Pupil

As State lawmakers continue to hammer out budget details to balance a $2.8 billion deficit by October 1, 2009, funding for public schools is taking it on the chin. In its current proposed state the State budget will cut $218 of State funding per student.
Let’s put that into perspective…
Based on student numbers provided by Superintendent [...]

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Innovating Education Funding

While the front pages of our newspapers are talking about “green shoots” and “economic recovery” the recession is just now starting to hit our school budgets.
School funding concerns were raised multiple times at the last Flat Rock School Board Meeting. Most notably, shrinking school budgets were cited as the root cause of growing Flat [...]

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Flat Rock School Board Recap (9/14/2009)

Here are the notes I took from the Flat Rock School Board Meeting.
Superintendent Russ Pickell gave an extensive update to the Board of Education and an unusually full audience of parents and Flat Rock teachers.
Flat Rock School Transportation
Transportation for the first week of school went fairly smooth. Some of the transportation highlights:

Transportation was timely [...]

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Join Me Saturday for Run for Ryan

This Saturday, September 12th is the annual Run for Ryan. It’s a great Flat Rock tradition, in memorial to Ryan Sergent. This event is a charitable event sponsored by the Flat Rock Ram Boosters and “Ryan’s Friends.” All proceeds from the race go to support Flat Rock Community Schools athletics and programs.
I’m running again this [...]

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