Thursday, January 28, 2010

District 25 Levy

The district would like to make presentations to all school PTA's about the levy in the month of February. Please contact Shelly Allen at the district office to set up a time. This will be an informational meeting. If your PTA would like to choose to vote about supporting the levy or not, that is up to your local PTA to hold a vote.

Our March 4th regional meeting will also have a levy presentation and we will vote as a region whether to support the levy or not. Please come and let your voices be heard!

Legislative Day

Please make plans to attend the state Legislative Day in Boise. It is on Feb. 11th starting at 7:30am and going to about 4pm. Check out the state website through our link on this blog for more information and to register. With very little revenue for our state government to work with, it is very important that our representatives see public education as an essential building block for our future. We can't pay for lobbyist to be at the capital, but we can have a voice. Our region has some money to pay for entrance fees if people need help with that. Please contact me, Brandi Barnes, at 238-2118.

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Parent website to accompany new math program

At our December Region 5 PTA meeting we discussed the new math program. Several parents expressed that this math is different than the math that many of our parents learned growing up and they find it more difficult to help their children with homework. Our panel was very helpful and Mr Hyde from Tendoy was willing to find and share the website that is linked to the new math program so that us as parents can go there and reference any questions we might have. The web site is www.eduplace.com. Hope this is helpful.

Region 5 PTA meeting - December 10, 2009

REGIONAL PTA MEETING – DEC 10, 2009

* In attendance – 15

* Homestay for international students at ISU (exchange students)
· Looking for families – you are compensated $500/month
· Most are Asian and Saudi Arabian
· Contact Rita Haggardt if interested – 282-5201

* Watched endowment land video
· Idaho has 3.6 million acres for endowment land
· Revenue from this land is used to fund schools of Idaho

* Panel Questions discussed
· What program the district has in place to deal with bullying
· 6th graders in middle school, how is it working? School district will discuss this more at their meeting in March
· New math program – a web site linked to new program to help parents is www.eduplace.com
· Discussion on trimester school