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I am pleased to welcome you to another exciting school year at Stamford Central School! Through the summer the custodians and central office personnel have been busily preparing for the students’ return to school. The building is spic and span clean, the lawns and fields are well manicured, and the classrooms are ready for students! Kudos to our custodial staff for a job well done!
FIRESIDE CHATS
I will be hosting 5 Fireside Chats throughout the school year for the general public. These will take place in the elementary library and will serve to inform and well as to exchange questions and answers with the public about upcoming Board meeting topics/decisions or procedures and policies we have in place. The dates are: Oct. 12, Dec. 7, Feb. 8, Apr. 12, and June 7 at 6 p.m.
Sharing Services to Enhance Opportunities for Our Students
Last March I wrote a grant based on the work of the three Boards of Education – South Kortright, Jefferson, and Stamford. Over the past three years, these boards have looked at a variety of ways to share services in order to provide a more efficient delivery of services. The grant will pay for an independent study to examine the continuum of services we offer our students and how we may be more efficient in the delivery of those services by sharing some of them. August 20th I received word that we did indeed get the grant, so we will begin the study and we plan that it will take several months to collect the data needed for the independent group to make recommendations to the 3 districts. This is not a full consolidation study; rather it is simply a complete look at all of the possibilities between independence and consolidation. Should the study find data that supports consolidation of at least two of the districts, then we will have that information in order to make a knowledgeable decision. Likewise, should the study find data that demonstrates a consolidation would not enhance efficiency or opportunities for our students; we would have that data as well.
Thank you again for your support. I can’t wait to see you out in our community, whether it be in our classrooms, playfields, out on the playground, in a meeting or out in the community as we embark on another year together.
Warmest regards,
Tonda Dunbar,
Superintendent
