Renewal of Campbell levy will keep district on track, officials say

CAMPBELL

Renewal of a 14.4-mill, five-year levy in November will ensure that the Campbell City School District continues to move in the right direction, school officials say.

In the 2014-15 school year alone, the district has made a number of positive changes, said Jennifer Kavouras, chairwoman of the Campbell Levy Committee and a teacher of English as a second language at Campbell.

For one, the elementary and middle schools have been merged into a single entity that provides a more seamless flow of instruction for kindergartners through seventh-graders.

Instructional time at the middle-school level also has been restructured, providing students with core classes — math, science, language arts, social studies — that are a minimum of 70 minutes, instead of 50 minutes.

Plus, additions to the curriculum include a science, technology, engineering and math program that begins in the third grade, and expanded dual-credit offerings, which give students the opportunity to earn both high school and college credit at no cost to them or to their families.

They’re all changes that the district hopes to maintain, Kavouras explained.

Read more about the district and its finances in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.