BUCYRUS—On Monday evening, the Wynford board of education held its monthly meeting.
Board member Levi Hartschuh discussed Representative Riordan McClain’s recent trip to Mohawk, where the school administration is looking to enlighten the public and local politicians on how public schools are funded.
McClain currently sponsors House Bill 290, also known as the “Backpack Bill.” The bill allows for state funding to follow the students wherever students decide to go–meaning that some students could attend private schools on state funding when approximately forty-eight percent of a public school’s funding comes from state resources.
Hartschuh stated that another bill they should keep an eye on is Senate Bill 1. “We should definitely be concerned about it because it is taking away from the state board of education and putting one person in power and having a complete overhaul and both of these things, in my opinion, are anti-public schools,” Hartschuh said.
Senator Reineke, a representative of our district, sponsors the bill, which would change the Ohio Department of Education, take away power from the state school board, and create a Director of Education, which would be an appointed position, not elected.
In the new business section of the meeting, no motion was made to approve supplemental contracts for the head and assistant high school volleyball coach. The search is back open.
Interact advisor and high school science teacher Julie Rexroad updated the board on the many activities Interact Club has done so far this year: helping Rotary Club plants shrubs and bushes at Aumiller, hosting interact week that included a sock drive, creating cards for members in nursing homes, and making cat and dog toys for the humane society; helping nine families out at Thanksgiving with meals; helping three families at Christmas by angel tree shopping; ringing the Salvation Army bell; and helping decorate the Rotary float.
In March, thirty students in Interact club will be going down to the Ronald McDonald House in Columbus to work with a chef to prepare food for the families staying there.
Interact club consists of around fifty students between ninth and twelfth grade.
The science department is getting a brand new weather system to replace the old one. The system will include a new camera at the school and a new station. The school’s old one went out last April.
There will be no school for freshmen, sophomores, and seniors only on February 28 while juniors take the ACT. The elementary and middle school students will have school as normal.
The next board meeting is on March 20 at 5:30 p.m.