Pictured is the high school cafeteria as of August 20, 2010. That cafeteria is among the various middle and high school program spaces being renovated & modernized summer 2010, associated with the voter-approved EXCEL capital project. EXCEL stands for Expanding Children’s Education & Learning aid. Areas of focus this summer include the auditorium, high school gymnasium, high school cafeteria, various classrooms in grades 7-12, high school guidance office, the business office and district office. This capital project work will assist with energy efficiency, security & fire alarm systems, hardware and door replacements, interior signage and information technology modernization. It’s likely a community open house will be scheduled for November 2010, providing district residents with a special evening to visit and tour the renovated middle & high school program spaces. Similar work for the elementary grades program spaces is slated for summer 2011.

Breakfast prices for the 2010-2011 school year are as follows: $1.10 for grades K-5, $1.35 for grades 6-12. Lunch prices for 2010-2011 are $1.95 for grades K-5, $2.10 for grades 612. Milk price is 55 cents.

 

The next regular monthly School Board meeting is scheduled for September 14, 2010, 7:00 p.m. 

Click here for highlights from the August 10, 2010 School Board meeting.
 

 

 

Various administrators and faculty members greeted and met briefly May 4^th with a group of nine school administrators from the Republic of Moldova, who are visiting various public schools in America, with some of their visits to schools across the Champlain Valley. The Republic of Moldova is in the central part of Europe in the Northeastern Balkans. Northeast and South Moldova is surrounded by Ukraine, and on the West, Moldova is separated from Romania by the Prut River. Pictured are the visiting administrators, with Superintendent of Schools A. Paul Scott.

Clicking the blue ‘budget’ icon will bring you to the 2010-2011 Peru CSD
budget page, offering perspectives & reports associated with winter and spring
2010 budget development.

Peru Central’s Board of Education set a proposed $42.35M budget plan for voter consideration on May 18, 2010 at the annual vote and election. The proposed budget plan, established at the school board’s April 6, 2010 budget workshop, carries a spending increase of under ½ of one percent. The school board’s budget plan responds to a $1.97M cut in state aid, as of July 1^st. It’s widely forecasted that school districts across New York State will face state aid revenue shortages the next several years.  

The school board’s budget plan calls for a $1.94M scope of reductions across nearly every program and support operation across campus. The school board ‘tuned’ a preliminary draft set of budget reductions, thereby improving the balance, from area to area. All core programs are sustained - and trimmed - in the proposed $42.35M spending plan. Class sizes will be somewhat larger in elementary and secondary grades. Extra-curricular activities, including athletics, are trimmed, as part of budget reductions.

Reductions in district employment for 2010-2011 include: One administrative position reduced from full-time to half-time, one central office position, one operations supervisor position, three teaching assistants, five K-6 common branch teacher assignments, seven fewer full-time faculty positions [counselor, English, mathematics, music, reading, science, social studies], four teacher positions reduced from full-time to part-time [art, business, French, health], two clerical positions, one buildings & grounds position and two part-time school monitors.