School Principals Get Raises
The GCISD board, meeting in regular session Feb. 9 (Andy Wheeler absent), voted to give school principals Ken Hoskins and John Petree each a raise of $1,500 and to extend their contracts two years. They also voted to extend School Counselor Jan Holland’s contract two years.
Jessica Hoch, representing the senior class, reported that the seniors have remodeled the two-room former home economics suite and made it a student lounge. Furnishings include a game table, ping-pong table, sofa and chairs. Students in grades 9–12 are using the lounge before school and at lunch. Hoch showed the board a plaque dedicating the lounge to future GCHS students. She said Petree and Koby Abney had originally suggested the remodel project.
Petree reported that the secondary school’s failure rate is down since mandatory tutorials began. He said after-school tutorials have begun in preparation for TAKS testing, and a mentoring program will soon begin for at-risk students. Petree said the school is expanding its concurrent/dual-credit program, whereby students earn credit for both college and high school courses simultaneously.
Superintendent Steve Long told the board that four new adjustable backboards have been installed in the school’s “complex.”
Long also reported that the school’s web site http://gcisd.esc18.net now contains board meeting agendas and minutes, plus the board’s policy manual, district and campus improvement plans, school lunch information, athletic schedules, etc.
Enrollment now stands at PK, 15; K–6, 148; grades 7 & 8, 38; and grades 9–12, 91, for a district-wide total of 292.