The St. Mary Parish School Board approved a pilot program Thursday that will promote failing fifth, sixth and seventh grade students to the next grade, provided they attend an extended day program with parental consent.
“The program will radically reduce the retention rate in middle school grades and give these students a high promotion probability of advancing to high school as regular students,” Superintendent Donald Aguillard said.
Starting this month, students who are scheduled to be retained or kept back, would be given the opportunity to be promoted to the next grade, by staying at school an extra hour Monday thru Thursday. Bus transportation will be available.
Aguillard said the program will cost the board $80,000, for two teachers per middle school and eight additional buses to transport students home after the program.
In fiscal matters, the board learned its sales tax collection budget is $93,660 ahead of its sales tax projections of $10.6 million.
In personnel matters, the board accepted the resignations of: Marcus Manuel, an English Language Arts teacher and Mary Vincent. a Math teacher, at Franklin Sr. High; Heny Brown, a crossing guard at M.E. Norman Elementary; Shawn DeRouen, production manager at Patterson Jr. High; and John Sorrell, a computer literacy teacher at Patterson Jr. High School.
The board also accepted the retirements of Willie Edmond, a cafeteria technician at
Mary Hines Elementary - effective Jan 24th, 2009; Jane Bowles, Principal at Franklin Jr. High School - effective June 30 of 2009; Karen Davidson, Principal at Foster Elementary, effective Sept 1, 2009.
And in another matter, the board approved Da’Mon August as a new Math teacher at Franklin Sr. High, and Bobby Stubbs Jr., ROTC Instructor at Morgan City High.
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