Special Board Meeting Wednesday, March 11
There have been many questions about the status of field trips that have already been approved, especially international field trips.
The Board scheduled a Special Meeting Wednesday, March 11, and we posted its agenda Friday. After consulting with the Board President Saturday morning, I will be posting an amended March 11 agenda, adding “Status of Field Trips Already Approved” as an action item so the Board can discuss and take action on planned field trips, domestic and international.
Another communication will be coming after the Board meeting.
Regular Board Meeting Monday, March 16
Currently, our response to the coronavirus is appropriate to our local conditions and is consistent with what the Lake County Department of Public Health is telling us to do. At the same time, we have been working on our preparedness in response to various coronavirus scenarios, and there will be an agenda item on the March 16 agenda for us to present those planning efforts to the Board and discuss them. That agenda will not post until Wednesday, but I want you to know that our efforts to prepare for various coronavirus scenarios have been been ongoing and a report of those efforts is coming to the Board March 16.
As we always do, a communication will come after our Board discussion March 16.
I know that communicating to you is important, and I doubt it will be as fast or as substantive as you would like it to be. As you can see, there are planned communications, but events may evolve at a pace that dictate when and what we communicate. Please know that while we are working as quickly as we can on this quickly changing, unprecedented issue, we want to balance those efforts with clear communications using the most up-to-date information, rushing for rushing’s sake helps no one.
We always say that the safety of students and staff is the most important job we have. The health of our students and staff has always been just as important, but now it is at the forefront.
Bruce Law, Ed.D.
Superintendent of Schools
