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Sulphur Springs ISD board of trustees Kerry Wright (left) secretary and John Prickette listen to information during a recent board meeting. Staff photo by Don Wallace
The Sulphur Springs School board met in a regular season/budget workshop on Tuesday, June 14.
Personnel was discussed in executive session with the following decisions made.
Summer contracts due to midterm hire date includes : Sean Ditto, SPED/SSMS; Kimberly Chisom, READ 180/SSMS; Jamie Young, English 1/SSHS; Matthew Newton, Peter Medlock and Brett Page, teacher-coaches at SSHS.
New personnel included: Justin Cowart, Asst. Superintendent, Secondary; Katharine Cowart, Innovative Learning Specialists, Elementary.
New at Bowie: Amy Horton, Gr. 1 ELAR/SS; Lucinda Perez, Behavior Intervionist; and Jaldyn Schroeder, Title 1 Aide.
For Bush Primary -Laramie Rogers, SPED Aide; Kellie Bost, Gr. 1 Math/Science and Kayla Gresham, E ELAR/SS.
At the Rowena Johnson campus - Gracie Moore, Gr. 1 Math/Science and Skylar Schumate, Gr. 1 ELAR/SS.
At SSES- Joanna Duran, BIL Aide; Karmon Fiddle, Campus secretary; Jamia Hall, SPED Aide; Morgan Price, Instruct. Aide and Lauren Speer, Instruct. Aide.
At the Middle School - Stephanie Phillips, Gr. 7, Math Co-Teacher; Christopher Plumlee, Gr. 8 History; Dana Wallace, SPED Aide; Tammy Pearson, Registrar; Cody Brown, Asst. Band Dir./Percussion; Nancy Rodgers, SPED Resource; Alison Steven, Art.
For SSHS - Jamin Del Castillo, English; Ron Hammond, Social Studies; Stephen Hardy, World History/Coach; Tevor King, Ag teacher; Sarah Leach, Athletic Secretary; Andrew Colton Gresham, Teacher/ Coach; Juliana Ramirez, Spanish; Meredith Rule, SPED Aide and Craig Philo, SPED teacher.
In Special Services - Imelda Smith, Education Diagnostician and Brandy Rhudy, Special Prog. Secretary.
Resignations - Amanda Barrett, Gr. 3 Math/Sci. Teacher; Chandler Macke, Kinder/ ELAR/SS; Tina Phillips, SPED Aide from Bowie Primary.
At Rowena Johnson - Kara Argenbright, Literacy Support; Carson Folmar, Gr. 1 ELAR/SS teacher; Jamie Rhoades, Gr. 2 ELAR/ SS teacher; and Amy Tanton, Gr. 1 ELAR/SS teacher.
At Travis - Title 1 Aide, Lurdes Garces.
At SSES, Elias Garcia, BIL Aide.
At the Middle School - Jeffery Garcia, Asst. Band Director; Cassidy McClure, Gr. 6 Math; Christine Timas, Gr. 7 ELAR teacher; Tina Tipps, SPED Aide; and Kathy Hewitt, ISS Aide.
At SSHS - Neal Parson, Matt Young and Easton Silman, teacher/coaches; Taylor Thompson, Ag teacher and Cedrick Wright, Culinary teacher.
Personnel changes - Tobias Adams from SPED Aide/Middle School to Gr. 7 History/SSMS; Natosha Burns from Gr. 7 Math/ SSES to Grade 6 Math SSES; Robin Castro, from SPED Secretary to Science Teacher/SSHS; Destine Clark, from SPED Aide/SSES to SPED teacher, SSES; Emily Emerine from Head Start3 teacher to Head Start Educ. Specialist; Ericka Fierst, SPED Aide/Johnson to Gr. 1 Math/Sci. Johnson; Xenia Franco, from Gr.1 teacher/Johnson to Gr. 5 Math/Sci. SSES; Cindy Gallo, Gr. 1 DLE/Travis to Gr. 6 ELAR, SSMS; Leah Gore, SPED/Bush to SPED Resource/Johnson; Britni Johnson from Gr. 1 ELAR/SS Bowie to Kinder. ELAR/SS/Bowie; DaMarcus Johnson from Library Aide/Bowie to Technology Asst./SSMS; Lisa Lantz, from Counselor/Travis and SPED Counselor/Bush and SPED; Melinda Page, ELAR/SS Kinder to ELAR/ SS Gr. 2; Megan Postlewait. SPED Aide/Bush; Miranda Scritchfield from SPED Aide to Attendance, SSMS; Lauren Scovally from Gr. 1 DLE/Travis to HS 3 Douglass; Constance Stieber from Title 1 Aide/Bowie to Library Aide/Bowie; Holly Thompson, Res. Spec. Ed/ Johnson to Library Support/Johnson; LaTosha Utt, from Pre-K/Douglass to Kinder. ELAR/Johnson; Melinda Rivera Wilks, from Inst. Aide/SSES to Title I Aide/SSES and Jamie Young from Instruct. Aide/ SSES to SpED Aide/SSES.
In other news from the meeting, no public forum was requested.
Assistant superintendent Jeremy Lopez, gave a report on summer school activity. He said attendance was good at the school and summer day and athletic camps.
Assistant superintendent Lisa Robinson had comments on the on STAAR and EOC testing. She said that results were preliminary. Some tests in some areas were on paper and being graded.
"We are not losing ground," Robinson said. "We're in a better academic position now that we were in 2019. This is promising and we excited moving forward."
The Board was given the following Head Start items for informational purposes only:
Head Start Director’s Report for May
Policy Council Meeting Minutes for May Head Start Financial Report for May.
The board also discusseded several action item.
Along with routine matters before the board, the following were approved:
Continuation of Student Accident Insurance with Texas Student Resources/ Health Special Risk,Inc.
Credit by Exam testing dates for 2022-2023 school year and Region 08 ESC Contracts for 2022-2023 school year.
In the budget workshop portion of the meeting Sherry McGraw presented board members with the first draft summary of the 2022-2023 budget.
Another budget work session will be held at the regular July 11, 2022 meeting.