GALION, OH (CRAWFORD COUNTY NOW) —On Tuesday evening, the Northmor Board of Education held its August board meeting to prepare for the upcoming school year.
Based on current state scores, the district is predicted to be rated 4.5 out of 5 stars. The elementary school received four stars, while the high school received four and a half stars. Official ratings will be released at a later date.
The board set the substitute teacher rates for the school year at $125 per day for days one through twenty, and $135 per day for days twenty-one through fifty-nine. The days must be spent consecutively in the same classroom. The previous rates were $100 per day and $105 per day after day twenty.
Substitute teachers can be hard to find and often choose schools that pay higher rates, so board members wanted to make the district more enticing than other area schools.
The board approved FFA members to attend the ninety-seventh National FFA Convention and Expo in Indianapolis from October 23-25. Students will share a charter bus with Clearfork, Danville, and Ashland Crestview.
A resolution was approved to participate in the META cooperative advertising and to receive bids for school bus chassis and bodies. This does not obligate the district to buy a bus; it just gives the district a foot in the door to do so. The district will be due for a new bus around late spring or early summer.
A donation worth $744.74 was approved for the purchase of books from Modern Woodmen of America to be placed in the elementary library.
The next board meeting is scheduled for September 17 at 5:30 p.m.