BOARDMAN School board
Boardman Board of Education approved creation of an alternative school and the hiring of several new teachers for the 2006-07 school year at its Monday meeting. Most of the new teachers are local residents who chose to remain in or return to the Mahoning Valley. The board approved the following:
Recommendation from Wendy Carothers, coordinator of special programs, and David Kornbau, high school associate principal, for an alternative school at Boardman High School at an estimated cost of $47,975. Kornbau said the aim of the pilot program is to keep students in school who cannot function effectively in a traditional classroom. Kornbau said the district will save about $5,200 per each student enrolled in the program if they remain in the district rather than leaving and enrolling in a charter school or other alternative plan outside the district.
Transfer of Kathy Hildebrand from special programs secretary to secretary to the director of instruction, effective retroactively to July 17.
One-year teaching contracts to these new teachers:
Gina Abruzzino, fifth-grade language arts at Glenwood Middle School; Dwendolyn Alexander, music at Robinwood Lane Elementary School six hours per week; Joseph Cleghorn, English at Boardman High School; Terrance James, social studies at Center Middle School; Erin Navarro, fifth-grade language arts at Glenwood Middle School; Steven Shurtleff, English at Boardman High School;
Bart Smith, resource room teacher at Boardman High School.