LIBERTY School board weighs task force's suggestions

Board members have discussed each suggestion.
LIBERTY -- An alliance of parents, teachers, students and community members has had a say on school issues; the rest now is up to school board members.
The Liberty Schools Task Force, formed earlier this year to address parental and faculty concerns, has finalized its suggestions for improving the school system and forwarded those suggestions to the board.
The board will analyze those suggestions at an upcoming meeting.
The task force was divided into four subcommittees -- partnership, academic, safety and discipline, and a committee for the E.J. Blott School. Each subcommittee has spent several weeks drafting a list of recommendations and suggestions for board members.
What's on list
The completed list included about three dozen suggestions. Among them were:
UNewsletters for all three schools.
UMore parental involvement.
UDismantling the block scheduling system for math and foreign languages in the high school.
UA thorough study of the academic and economic effects of the trimester schedule.
UExplore a fair way to weigh and/or recognize the increased level of difficulty of higher and advanced course work in determining class rank in the high school.
UFormation of a parent/significant adult parent group to work with students in need of academic support.
UIncrease the elementary school's achievement test scores by 5 percent by 2007.
Board members spent several hours going over each suggestion during two meetings this week. The board will revisit the suggestions May 10.