School District News

Superintendent/School Board Communique from the May 16^th Special Board Meeting

The San Juan Island School District School Board meeting on May 16^th may have been the shortest one this year! Special Education Director Theresa Jimenez provided an updated on this year’s Special Ed programming, successes and challenges. In addition, she presented examples of art and poetry crafted by the students. The presentation may be found on Board Docs under meetings.

To access: Go to the School District Home Page, click the About tab, next to Home. Scroll down to Our School Board, click. Again, scroll down to School Board Agendas and click. Then click on the highlighted Board Docs link, center screen. Once you are there, click on enter public site. Move over to the meetings tab on the top right. Click on the meeting you want to see – in this case May 16. Go down to Special Topics and click on the page icon next to Special Ed update and there are your presentation pieces to view!

It’s not nearly as complicated as this sounds!

The other two topics under discussion for the evening were the hiring freeze and the resignation of Ralph Hahn, former Board Chair.

The hiring freeze was always only temporary due to uncertainty about final funding numbers from the state. The freeze was rescinded.

Director Hahn’s resignation was accepted by the Board.

In other news, SJISD is now accepting applications to fill our vacant director spot. Applications are due by noon on June 6^th. Applications will be reviewed on June 7^th, and finalists will be interviewed Friday June 8^th beginning at 5:00 pm.

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