Summary of School Board Meeting from Alamogordo Daily News

Full coverage of the January school board meeting can be found here.

Science Olympiad Regionals to be in Cloudcroft

Regionals for the Science Olympiad will be hosted by Cloudcroft High School this Saturday. Cloudcroft students will be competing in events like the Egg-O-Naut (where a raw egg is launched on a water rocket and is supposed to land unbroken), Mission Possible (think Rube Goldberg contraption), Mousetrap vehicles, etc. It is great fun to watch and volunteers are always appreciated! The event should start around 8 to 9 a.m. and last all day.

Superintendent's Contract Extended

Last night's school board meeting ended with the school board going into executive session to discuss the Superintendent's evaluation. They then called the superintendent into the executive session to discuss his evaluations with him. When they came out of the meeting, the board voted unanimously to extend the superintendent's contract another year, which now gives him 2 1/2 years remaining on the contract. There was no public discussion on the matter, which leads me to conclude that the discussion took place in the executive session. I have sent the following email to each school board member:

"I'm interested in knowing the content of the board's discussion with regards to extending the superintendent's contract for a year. From the agenda, I assumed that the contract discussion would be public, but it appears that the issue was decided in the executive session. Can you explain what went on and why the contract was extended when there was already 1 1/2 years left on the existing contract?"


I anxiously await any reply...

School Board to discuss Superintendent at January 11, 2010 Meeting

The School Board is slated to discuss the Superintendent's evaluations and contract at this meeting. The full agenda can be seen here or, for the FIRST time, on the school's very own web page www.cmsbears.org.