The Peru Gazette

Peru Central’s Board of Education launches its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, March 8th at 6 PM at the school district’s community room, adjacent to the main entrance of Peru High School. An executive session associated with particular matters leading to employment, collective negotiations, and advice of counsel from the school attorney, will take place immediately following the 6 PM start. The school board is slated to reconvene for public session business at approximately 7 PM. It’s anticipated the school board will:

• Commend particular students and teachers for distinctive academic accomplishment this school year;
• Launch the school board’s third budget development workshop, featuring discussion of the Governor’s proposed $2.6M cut in 2011-2012 state aid for Peru CSD;
• Discuss a plan of approach to prepare for the impacts of such a loss of state aid to Peru CSD, while maintaining strong programs, July 2011, forward;
• Discuss the impact on real estate value, industrial development, growth of the region’s workforce and increased importance of strong public education programs for the children of this school community, given the Laurentian Aerospace Corporation’s $175M project, located within Peru CSD boundaries;
• Receive a briefing from the Primary School Principal on year-to-year gains in student achievement for English language arts and mathematics.
• Attend to the full range of school district governance, personnel and finance matters as is customary at the regular monthly meetings of the Board.
  

As is customary practice at Peru Central, an information packet will be available to district residents who attend the school board’s meeting. The intent of the information packet is to encourage district residents to follow along as the school board attends to key matters and topics that evening.