School district policies topic of Monday workshop
Members of the Rogers City Area Schools Board of Education will be having a workshop Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the Grambau Education Center to continue the process of updating the district policies. Since the fall, a committee consisting of chair Patty Pike, Mike Marx, and Jo Bush-Glenn, as well as administrators, have put in long hours working on the 10 sections of the policy.
The board is switching from the Michigan Association of School Board policies to the organization NEOLA, and has been receiving assistance from consultant Paul Mancine, the former superintendent of the Alcona Schools.
?They certainly were not a rubber stamp,? said Mancine of working with the committee. ?Perhaps more often than not, they did not take some recommendations that I had, because it wasn?t tuned to your (Rogers City?s) particular situation.? Mancine appeared before the school board February 10.
?They worked hard,? he said. ?We had some long meetings.? A couple of the sessions were six to seven hours. ?They were very diligent and very thorough,? Mancine said.
The conversion process has entered the final phase and Monday?s workshop is being conducted to go over input from board members not on the committee. ?It?s clean up at this point,? said superintendent Ed Schultz.
The switch was to take 18 months, but Schultz said the committee may complete its work in half the time.