The Carroll Community School District (CCSD) Board of Education approved a calendar adjustment at their meeting Monday night to shift the final day of classes to Friday, May 28. According to Superintendent, Dr. Casey Berlau, students have missed an entire week of school so far due to inclement weather, including Monday. Iowa code requires a minimum of 1,080 instructional hours, and Berlau says they are well positioned to meet that, despite the snow days.
Negotiations between the Carroll Community School District (CCSD) Board of Education and the unions representing the district’s employees are officially underway. Last night (Monday), the Carroll Education Association (CEA), which represents teachers, and the Carroll Educational Support Association (CESA), which represents bus drivers and other support staff, presented their proposals to school officials. Kim Klein, a high school language arts instructor, presented first on behalf of the CEA.
The existing teacher contract extends through the end of the current fiscal year, which concludes at the end of June. Kathy Brown, CESA’s chief negotiator, then provided their proposal. The key points of their request are a flat one-dollar increase to hourly wages and an additional 10 cents for every five years employed by the district. Board President, Karen Friedlein, asked Brown for the reasoning behind the one-dollar request.
Next week’s meeting of the Carroll Community School District (CCSD) Board of Education will be starting slightly earlier than usual. Superintendent, Dr. Casey Berlau, says the board has decided to move the regular superintendent evaluation this month to the beginning of the meeting instead of the end.
The evaluation will be held in closed session, but the board is expected to return to open session at approximately 5:40 p.m. The first item of business will be the beginning of contract negotiations with the opening proposal from the Carroll Education Association (CEA).
The district’s administrators will then present updates from their respective buildings, and the board will approve any pending donations and the personnel report. They will then host a second Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 work session and set a date for the public hearing. Berlau says they are still working to finalize figures and the property tax rate, but as it stands, he believes the district remains in a good fiscal
The Carroll Community School District (CCSD) Board of Education has released the agenda for a special meeting next week as they begin preparations on the Fiscal
The Carroll High School Foundation is thrilled to announce the success of their recent Carroll Kindness fundraiser. COVID-19 has required the implementation of social distancing, making a large annual effort like the Tiger Trot difficult if not unfeasible. The foundation members put their heads together and came up with a plan for kindness instead, that had family, friends, community residents and businesses making pledges in exchange for acts of kindness to be carried out by students. With a goal of $30,000 in 12 days, the initiative started out strong, but was still nearly $8,000 short of that goal on their final day. However, the Carroll community shows up to support their own and came through, raising a grand total of $32,127. This money will go directly to the Carroll Community School District and the foundation will use the funds for field trips, accelerated reading programs, new technology and to help instructors enhance their classroom space and materials. The Carroll High Sc