On Wednesday, Evangeline Parish School Board members learned that the district received a 5.26 out of seven for its overall rating of its early childhood programs.
This is the first year that the state rated early childhood programs, which for the Evangeline Parish school district includes pre-schools, head start, and two locally owned day cares.
Title I Supervisor Penny McDaniel said, “We are thrilled to share that our early childhood performance profile score is a 5.26 which is proficient.”
The scores received by the state for each school is based on classroom observations, student teacher ratio, Tier 1 curriculum, and whether the school uses a quality assessment to determine a child’s strengths and needs.
After sharing the overall score for the district, McDaniel then enlightened the board on the schools that performed the greatest in the district.
McDaniel said, “Two sites in the district that scored excellent, which means they scored between a six and a seven, were W.W. Stewart and Vidrine Elementary. We also have one of our sites that scored the highest in the entire state, and that was Vidrine Elementary.”
During the meeting, Superintendent of School Darwan Lazard shared that a new initiative has started in the district where the custodians who improve the safety at their school and keeps their campus the cleanest will be recognized each quarter.
While addressing the board, Lazard also made a request to go one step further and not just recognize these custodians, but reward them and the school’s principal with a $25 gift card to Walmart.
The board had no objection to Lazard’s request.
The superintendent then shared that for the first quarter of the school year, Basile and Mamou High’s custodians were chosen as the winners.
The last major discussion had during the meeting involved a five year leave on a Xerox copy machine for $76,375.56.
This copy machine would be used to print Eureka Math modules for the entire district.
As of right now, the district has to use standard copy machines to make prints. However, according to Assistant Superintendent Mike Lombas, these copiers “cannot handle the load that is required.”
Lombas said, “We are looking at over four million pages per year to print the modules necessary for each child to have for Eureka Math.”
The copier Lombas requested the board lease will be able to print the required amount of pages for Eureka Math and it will also bind the pages of each module together automatically.
Even with its price tag, the board approved the lease.
The next two board meetings have been set for December 13, 2017 and January 14, 2018.
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ELIZABETH WEST