Canfield schools considering starting a day or two before Labor Day

By ROBERT CONNELLY

rconnelly@vindy.com

CANFIELD

The Canfield school district is looking at starting a day or two earlier than this school year, district officials said this week.

“We are serious about having a couple days start time before Labor Day,” said Alex Geordan, superintendent of Canfield schools. He said the talks are early, but the district is looking at the Monday and Tuesday of the week before Labor Day to pass out books and materials.

Geordan said that due to those days being mostly organizational days with students, “having days off there won’t affect students” as much later in the year.

The Canfield Board of Education elected Phil Bova to president of the board and Craig Olson as vice president Wednesday night. Both votes were unanimous.

Board member Lee Frey, who had been president, said, “I think he’ll do a fine job.”

During Geordan’s report to the board, he and Bova discussed recruiting teachers to the district.

“There are fewer and fewer candidates for jobs,” Geordan said. “Throughout the state, there’s going to be a lack of candidates.”

Geordan said that Canfield schools work with real-estate agents when pursuing new teachers from outside the area. That is “to put Canfield in their mind, to not only work here, but live here,” he said.

District officials said work on a new public-address system is close to being finished in the high school. Geordan said crews have been working 2:30 p.m. to midnight to finish the project outside of class time to avoid distracting students.

“It’s about safety more than anything else,” Bova said of the new PA system.