State of the District Part 1 – 2014
State of the District Part 1 – 2014
“Citrus School District is not just good… we’re an ‘A’!”
Tuesday we had a special school board meeting to approve the hiring of several newly hired employees. We also had a Workshop Meeting and a Public Hearing to pass the tentative budget for 2014-2015.
The special school board meeting was primarily for the board to approve the instructional and support recommendations made by the Superintendent. As a board we often take the opportunity to ask how many jobs have been filled and by whom. At this meeting Mr. Jonny Bishop, Director of Human Resources, shared that this summer 18 of the newly hired teachers were former Citrus County high school graduates! We enjoy hearing about our wonderful graduates getting an opportunity to return home to teach.
The workshop’s focus was on part one of the annual State of the District. This is the staff’s report to the board on the status of our students, schools, grade levels and more. The big issues you have likely already heard were that Citrus was named a High Performing District by the Florida Department of Education for the 8th year in a row, and Citrus was given an “A” rating by the Florida Department of Education. Citrus was one of only 10 districts in the state with an “A” rating. It addition we learned that our 8th grade writing scores were 3rd in the state, 8th grade math was 5th in the state, our 5th grade reading was 6th in the state, and our 3rd grade reading and 5th grade math were 7th in the state. I would encourage you to take a look at the whole report to see the impressive success of our schools. Follow this link for full report: https://thomastalks.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/State-of-the-District_Citrus-County-Schools-Part-I.pdf
Lastly the school board unanimously passed the tentative 2014-2015 school board budget. The proposed tentative millage rate is 7.3040 mills which is a decrease of 4.05% percent over the previous year’s roll-back rate. As I have shared in the past the state, not the school district, mostly determines the local required effort millage rate. Only the capital budget’s 1.5 mills for capital outlay is decided locally.
Our next Board meeting is August 12th at 4:00pm.
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