● May 22nd- Digital Device Collection

● May 23rd- Field Day

● May 23rd-May 26th- No Backpacks on Campus

● May 24th- Launch Spirit Night, 4pm-9pm

● May 26th- YMCA Closed in the Afternoon

● May 29th- Memorial Day

This school year all students at all schools in OCPS will need to turn in their OCPS issued device. Over the summer all devices will be reimaged. Device collection will begin after May testing on Monday, May 22nd. This is also a reminder that all fines assessed this school year, must be paid this school year. Below is information on device fines.

Since devices will be collected it is recommended that students save everything saved on their laptop to their OCPS Google Drive.

When a device or accessory is damaged, an incident fee is assessed. The chart below details the device fee structure. Should a non-warranty repair be completed, the incident fee will be applied to the cost of the repair. However, if the repair falls under warranty and there is no cost to repair, the incident fee will be refunded.

The fee structure now accounts for a four-year depreciation schedule of the device (each year ends June 30). The chart below details the depreciation schedule.

The device begins depreciating once it's in use. Devices depreciate along a normal schedule, depending upon the features of the device, the expected life cycle, and normal wear and tear. Normal wear and tear related to the full replacement value—hence the new depreciation schedule above for instances that rise to a third incident. These are the new replacement values based on depreciation.

We appreciate our instructional coach, Yulia Bourkova, an outstanding Advanced Coaching Academy facilitator! Not only did she support the 2022-2023 ACA participants in their learning and coaching endeavors, but Yulia embodies what it means to be a lifelong learner and coach!

Wednesday night we held our Leave Your Legacy event for 8th graders who have met the requirement to move on to high school. It was a memorable night seeing all of our 8th grade Jets and their families at University High School!

Link: https://legacymiddle.memberhub.com/ 

Here are the unemployment rate percentages from Jan. 2000 through Apr. 2023 by level of education:

The 4 colored lines in the chart show the monthly US unemployment rates from the year 2000 through last month depending on education level: Purple line (the lowest line in the chart) = those with a 4-year college degree or higher; green line = AA degree or at least some college; red line = high school diploma only; and blue line (the top line) = less than a high school diploma. The grey shaded areas are US economic recessions.

Economists and non-economists alike have long recognized the value of a college degree—or at least some post-secondary education. Although some people do quite well with only a high school degree, many so-called “blue collar” trades like plumbing, carpentry, automotive mechanics, and manufacturing still require additional schooling beyond high school.

The chart really reveals the importance of educational attainment in several ways. First, those with a college degree or some kind of post-secondary education have much lower average unemployment rates than those with a high school diploma or less. In April 2023, the average unemployment rate for a college graduate was 1.9 percent; for those without a high school degree, the average unemployment rate was 4.8 percent. Second, the effects of a slowing economy and recessions tend to affect the less-educated first. Third, recessions have the largest adverse labor-market effects on the less educated. Peak unemployment rates for those with less than a high school education are much higher than all others across time.

Source: Source: St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank - FRED database