Monday, December 9, 2013
All-state football
The Lincoln Journal-Star All-state football team was announced Sunday.
Carsten Tietz was named All-state defensive back. Honorable mention selections were Andre Berg, Auston Darnell, and Aaron Steichen.
Carsten Tietz was named All-state defensive back. Honorable mention selections were Andre Berg, Auston Darnell, and Aaron Steichen.
Friday, December 6, 2013
Federal Farm To School grant to Center For Rural Affairs in Lyons
(Bancroft-Rosalie School has requested to be included as a pilot school for this project. The project is intended to utilize local farmers as suppliers for the school food service program. Possible supplies include eggs, fruits and vegetables)
The following announcement was released by the USDA today:
The Center For Rural Afffairs “Growing Markets for Farm to School: Networking and training to bring farmers and schools together” will build connections for farm to school programs in rural eastern Nebraska through face‐to‐face networking. Additionally, we will train farmers and school food service personnel in farm product safety and usage, provide individual farm to school facilitation for ten pilot schools, and raise awareness of farm to school, laying foundation for future expansion. The Center for Rural Affairs will hold two farm to school summits in eastern Nebraska. These summits build the personal connections between farmers and schools that we have found to
be essential, while inspiring and informing participants about farm to school possibilities. We
will also hold training sessions in farm food safety and usage for farmers and school food
service personnel, in the form of workshops and webinars. We will select ten schools and
provide individual farm to school facilitation for those schools. Lastly, we will use our robust
media staff to bring statewide and regional attention to our farm to school activities.
School Board agenda Monday December 9
Bancroft-Rosalie Community
School
Regular Board of Education
Meeting Agenda
Monday, December 9, 2013 --- 7:30 p.m. in
Bancroft
1. Call
to Order
2. Roll
Call
3. Read
and approve the minutes of the November 11, 2013 regular board meeting.
4. Treasurer’s
Report
A.
Approve the Bills
B.
Financial Review
5. Review
Agenda
6. Public
Hearing
7. Administrator’s
Reports:
A.
Superintendent’s Report
B. Principal’s Report
8. Old
Business:
A.
9. New
Business:
A. Approve the 2012-13 audit.
B. Approve the 2012-13 annual report.
C. Approve $350 for staff Christmas at Main
Street December 13
D. Replace outside LED lights
E. Approve 2014-15 negotiated
agreement with teachers
F. Recognize
the Bancroft-Rosalie Education Association as the exclusive
bargaining
agent for teachers.
G. Purchase of audiometer for $998
10. Discussion Items
A.
11. Executive
Session.
12. Future Planning- Next meeting- Monday,
January 13, 2014 at 7:30 p.m.
13. Adjournment.
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Financial information from the 2012-13 school year audit
BUDGET
1.
GENERAL FUND
A.
Sources of Income:
Total
Local Property Taxes 2,261,620
Total
Motor Vehicle Taxes 111,539
Total
Other Local Revenues 2,967
Total
County Receipts 9,356
Total
State Aid 711,961
Total
State Special Education 188,949
Total
Other State Receipts 199,907
Total
Non-revenue Receipts 4,284
Total
Federal Receipts 226,836
Total Receipts
3,717,419
B.
Expenditures:
Salaries
1,978,523
Benefits 641,983
Purchased
Services and Utilities 309,089
Supplies
and Materials 170,098
Capital
Outlay 92,405
Debt
Service 300,450
Other
Expenditures 22,729
Transfers
9,548
Total
Expenditures 3,524,825
C.
GENERAL FUND BALANCE
Cash
Balance 8-31-12 973,486
Receipts 3,717,419
Disbursements 3,524,825
Cash
Balance 8-31-13 1,166,080
2. ACTIVITY FUND
Balance 8-31-12 43,394
Receipts 135,932
Disbursements 153,786
Balance 8-31-13 25,540
3.
LUNCH FUND
Balance 8-31-12 14,876
Receipts 155,515
Disbursements 152,448
Balance 8-31-13 17,943
4.
BUILDING FUND
Balance 8-31-12
85,973
Receipts
187
Disbursements
21,153
Balance 8-31-13
65,007
5.
DEPRECIATION FUND
Balance 8-31-12
109,404
Receipts 564
Disbursements 0
Balance 8-31-13
109,968
6.
BOND FUND
Balance 8-31-12 212,058
Receipts 55,664
Disbursement 67,847
Balance 8-31-13 199,875
7.
COOPERATIVE FUND
Balance 8-31-12 41,125
Receipts 19,888
Disbursements 19,927
Balance 8-31-13 41,086
8.
STUDENT FEE FUND
Balance 8-31-12 7,815
Receipts 4,227
Disbursements 3,871
Balance 8-31-13 8,171
9.
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT FUND
Balance 8-31-12
10,534
Receipts
29,545
Disbursements
32,569
Balance 8-31-13
7,510
10. QUALITY CAPITAL PURPOSE UNDERTAKING
FUND
Balance 8-31-12
150,995
Receipts
12,181
Disbursements
160,498
Balance 8-31-13
2,678
11. TAX LEVY
General
Fund 0.985911
Bond
Fund K-8 0.002089
Bond
Fund 9-12 0.018799
Qualified
Capital Improvement 0.004178
Total Levy 1.010977
12. ACTUAL VALUE OF SCHOOL DISTRICT
Dept. of Revenue Unadjusted Valuation Certification- 2012
Agland 182,610,740
Residential
Real Property 26,546,105
Ag.
Improvements and Farmsites 9,557,885
Centrally
Assessed Real and Personal Prop.
4,629,233
Commercial
and Industrial Real Property 3,236,960
Personal
Property 15,209,382
Total Assessed
Value
241,790,305
12.
Average Per Pupil Cost (ADM) $15,206.42
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Eligibility for activity participation
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Omaha Public Schools recently passed a policy requiring students to pass all subjects and maintain a 2.0 (C) average in order to participate in school athletics and activities that are regulated by the Nebraska School Activities Association. According to the Omaha World Herald article today, eligibility will be determines at the end of each quarter grading period. Students on special education Individual Education Plans may not be subject to the policy. The schools provide tutors for students.
The Bancroft-Rosalie eligibility policy states that:
"Students must be present for six periods of school, they can miss 2 full periods during the middle of the day or a time equivalency of 100 minutes to be eligible to participate in a practice session, game or extracurricular event that night unless special arrangements are made with the administration in advance. Arrangements must be made before 7:45 am. On a regular school day students must be in school by 10:00 AM and cannot leave before 1 :50 PM to meet the above criteria.
To be eligible for extra-curricular events or contests, the student must be passing six classes of which they are enrolled. Grades will be taken after the second week of each semester. Teachers will turn in all 7-12 grades by 8:15 a.m. on every Tuesday, at that time a student must be passing 6 out of their 7 classes or they will be put on probation for their first offense, (students will get one probationary week each semester) after that they will be ineligible for all activities the following week. Eligibility will run from Monday to Monday. Students must meet the eligibility status to participate in any activities or contests. Parents will receive a letter from the school when their child is ineligible which will inform them of the classes and the grades that their child is down in. The letter will also include the date of the week when they will be ineligible.
All other eligibility policies as stated by the Nebraska School Activities Association must be in compliance. Students not passing four classes for the semester will be ineligible for the succeeding semester."
Our policy checks grades weekly and students can have one failing grade and still be eligible. Students on Individual Education Plans can be eligible with failing grades as long as they have shown improvement during the week. Bancroft-Rosalie School discourages giving zeros for missing work because a zero does not accurately reflect what the student knows or has learned and we want grades to reflect academic ability. Missing assignments are not an academic problem as much as they are a behavior problem. Therefore, we ask that students with missing work stay after school to complete missing assignments before they are allowed to attend practice.
I think we can all agree that we want high expectations for our students. But I also think that we all believe there is something valuable gained through participation in school activities. For if we don't, then how do we justify the cost of providing coaches, equipment, transportation, and especially the loss of academic learning time when students are dismissed to participate in them. If activity participation is valuable, then withholding participation as a punishment for low academic performance is counter to what we know to be good for students. I prefer our policy, that requires work to be completed before students can participate in practice that day. This policy supports student responsibility and makes academics a priority, but does not keep students from being a part of the activity, whether it be sports, speech, or district music.
I would have a difficult time having an early dismissal for state basketball if I did not believe participation was important for all of our student-athletes and the school.
The Bancroft-Rosalie eligibility policy states that:
"Students must be present for six periods of school, they can miss 2 full periods during the middle of the day or a time equivalency of 100 minutes to be eligible to participate in a practice session, game or extracurricular event that night unless special arrangements are made with the administration in advance. Arrangements must be made before 7:45 am. On a regular school day students must be in school by 10:00 AM and cannot leave before 1 :50 PM to meet the above criteria.
To be eligible for extra-curricular events or contests, the student must be passing six classes of which they are enrolled. Grades will be taken after the second week of each semester. Teachers will turn in all 7-12 grades by 8:15 a.m. on every Tuesday, at that time a student must be passing 6 out of their 7 classes or they will be put on probation for their first offense, (students will get one probationary week each semester) after that they will be ineligible for all activities the following week. Eligibility will run from Monday to Monday. Students must meet the eligibility status to participate in any activities or contests. Parents will receive a letter from the school when their child is ineligible which will inform them of the classes and the grades that their child is down in. The letter will also include the date of the week when they will be ineligible.
All other eligibility policies as stated by the Nebraska School Activities Association must be in compliance. Students not passing four classes for the semester will be ineligible for the succeeding semester."
Our policy checks grades weekly and students can have one failing grade and still be eligible. Students on Individual Education Plans can be eligible with failing grades as long as they have shown improvement during the week. Bancroft-Rosalie School discourages giving zeros for missing work because a zero does not accurately reflect what the student knows or has learned and we want grades to reflect academic ability. Missing assignments are not an academic problem as much as they are a behavior problem. Therefore, we ask that students with missing work stay after school to complete missing assignments before they are allowed to attend practice.
I think we can all agree that we want high expectations for our students. But I also think that we all believe there is something valuable gained through participation in school activities. For if we don't, then how do we justify the cost of providing coaches, equipment, transportation, and especially the loss of academic learning time when students are dismissed to participate in them. If activity participation is valuable, then withholding participation as a punishment for low academic performance is counter to what we know to be good for students. I prefer our policy, that requires work to be completed before students can participate in practice that day. This policy supports student responsibility and makes academics a priority, but does not keep students from being a part of the activity, whether it be sports, speech, or district music.
I would have a difficult time having an early dismissal for state basketball if I did not believe participation was important for all of our student-athletes and the school.
Monday, December 2, 2013
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