DISTRICT GATHERS IDEAS FOR BONUSES.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Mistry is a surname, and may refer to:
This page or section lists people with the surname Mistry. Staff Writer Hoping to get a jump start on its planning, the Las Virgenes Unified School District Las Virgenes Unified School District (LVUSD) is a K-12 school district in north-west Los Angeles County, USA consisting of 14 public schools in the cities of Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Westlake Village, and several small portions of the West Hills section of Los Angeles. has begun discussion on how to spend the Academic Performance Index bonuses promised by the state. During a school board meeting Tuesday Tuesday: see week. night, board members, administrators, school staffers and site councils discussed their ideas on spending the money - which will be be received by 12 of the district's 13 schools based on their high API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. scores. ``Everyone has their own opinion on how the money should be used,'' said Judy Judy is most commonly a female given name, as well as a shorten form of Judith. It may also refer to:
While official amounts are still undetermined, the district estimates that it will receive $700 per full-time employee and $60 per student on each campus. ``We're speculating, but we're pretty close to knowing the amount,'' said Superintendent John Fitzpatrick There have been a number of people named John Fitzpatrick:
After being approached by school site councils eager to plan and use their proposed bonus money, Fitzpatrick recommended to the board adopt specific guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. for the spending of API funding. Recommendations included allowing the site councils to determine how the employee bonuses will be spent while using the per-student funds to bring about more programs based on district goals of increasing student learning. Some felt all the employee money should be used for teacher and staff bonuses, which the state had intended, while others said some of the money could be used for educational programs. The issue, which brought about many commentators and no consensus, is expected to be discussed further in early February. ``It's the first time the school site councils have had a considerable amount of money, it's important that it be planned,'' Jordan said. The need to begin planning stems from state guidelines that call for site councils to approve plans and have their school board approve plans for state approval by May. ``The problem with the state is that you never know when you're going to get the money,'' Jordan said. ``If the plans are not approved by the board, they'll lose the money.'' |
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