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Fall River School Department, Massachusetts

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Fall River School Department is a school district in Massachusetts.

Website evaluation

Main article: Evaluation of Massachusetts school district websites

The good

  • The school's budget is posted and available online. [1]
  • School Committee meetings are published on the district's website. [2]
  • Emails and direct contact information for the school committee [3] and superintendent [4] are available.
  • Though construction bids and contracts over $10,000 are not available, the school district site hosts the contracts for all positions in the school. [5]
  • Contact information for the public records officer is available. [6]
  • Required background checks are elucidated in the application form for the school. [7]

The bad

  • Local tax information is unavailable
  • Audit information is not posted
  • Test scores for the state assessment system are not listed.

Leadership

Fall River Public Schools are lead by a 7-member school committee, lead by the mayor of Fall River, in addition to a superintendent.

School Board

The current school committee consists of the following members[8]:

  • Hon. William Flanagann, Chairperson
  • Mark Costa, Vice-Chairperson
  • Joseph Martins
  • Tim McCoy
  • Robert Maynard
  • Richard Pavao
  • Marilyn M. Roderick

Administrative Officials

The superintendent of the Fall River public schools is Meg Mayo-Brown. [9]

Unions

The Fall River Schools teachers are lead by the Fall River Educators Association. FREA acknowledges its purpose to be:

  • First and foremost to work for the welfare of the school children, the advancement of education and the improvement of instructional opportunities for all.
  • To develop and promote the adoption of such ethical practices , personnel policies and standards of preparation and participation as mark a profession.
  • To unify and strengthen the teaching profession and to secure and maintain the salaries, retirement, tenure, sick leave, and other working conditions necessary to support the teaching profession.
  • To act as the official representative of the classroom teacher within the Fall River School System, to act as spokesman and bargaining agent before the *Fall River School Committee, and to speak for the united teaching profession on matters of education to the community as a whole.
  • To hold property funds and to employ a staff for the attainment of these purposes when necessary.<ref.Fall River Educators Association</ref>

School Budget

Fall River Schools 2012 Proposed Budget (Abridged) [10]
School Operating Budget FY 2011 FY 2012 Change
School Operating Budget $84,300,000 $86,300,000 $2,000,000
General Administrative Services (1000) $635,118 $635,118 -
School Security (3600) $123,184 $123,184 -
Operations and Maintenance (4000) $623,324 $623,324 -
Employer Retirement Contributions (5100) * $3,613,283 $3,902,346 $ 289,063
Insurance for Active Employees (5200)* $18,120,457 $19,388,889 $1,268,432
Insurance Retired School Employees (5250)* $4,573,866 $4,894,037 $320,171
Other Non-Employee Insurance (5260) $175,913 $175,913 -
Debt Service-Short Term Interest RAN\'s (5400) $91,865 $91,865 -
TOTAL EXPENDITURES BY CITY/TOWN $49,207,065 $51,084,730 $1,877,665
TOTAL ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES $133,507,065 $137,384,730 $3,877,665

Academic performance

Fall River School District 2011 MCAS performance
Grade and Subject Proficient or Higher ' Advanced ' Proficient ' Needs Improvement ' Warning/ Failing ' Students Included CPI SGP Included in SGP
DISTRICT STATE DISTRICT STATE DISTRICT STATE DISTRICT STATE DISTRICT STATE
GRADE 03 - READING 40 61 7 11 33 50 39 30 20 9 772 71.3 N/A N/A
GRADE 03 - MATHEMATICS 47 66 7 14 40 52 31 25 22 10 774 72.6 N/A N/A
GRADE 04 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 35 53 7 10 28 43 42 35 24 12 790 67.5 52.5 694
GRADE 04 - MATHEMATICS 25 47 6 15 19 32 53 42 22 11 792 65.4 51.0 696
GRADE 05 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 45 67 8 17 37 50 37 24 18 9 790 75.3 47.0 682
GRADE 05 - MATHEMATICS 37 59 11 25 26 34 32 26 31 15 793 65.3 48.0 683
GRADE 05 - SCIENCE AND TECH/ENG 25 50 4 14 21 36 43 36 32 15 792 62.0 N/A N/A
GRADE 06 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 45 68 7 17 38 51 37 23 18 9 779 73.4 46.0 672
GRADE 06 - MATHEMATICS 39 58 15 26 24 32 35 25 26 16 782 67.0 57.0 674
GRADE 07 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 53 73 5 14 48 59 34 21 13 6 757 79.4 44.0 656
GRADE 07 - MATHEMATICS 33 51 9 19 24 32 33 27 35 22 752 61.0 55.0 654
GRADE 08 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 63 79 9 20 54 59 26 15 11 6 740 83.3 50.0 643
GRADE 08 - MATHEMATICS 35 52 12 23 23 29 32 27 33 21 742 62.3 53.0 639
GRADE 08 - SCIENCE AND TECH/ENG 24 39 1 4 23 35 46 42 30 19 738 59.8 N/A N/A
GRADE 10 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 67 84 15 33 52 51 26 13 7 3 640 86.0 41.5 474
GRADE 10 - MATHEMATICS 52 77 23 48 29 29 30 16 18 7 627 75.3 35.0 466
GRADE 10 - SCIENCE AND TECH/ENG 48 67 7 20 41 47 33 27 19 7 586 73.4 N/A N/A
ALL GRADES - ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 49 69 8 17 41 52 35 23 16 8 5,268 76.3 47.0 3,821
ALL GRADES - MATHEMATICS 37 58 11 24 26 34 35 27 27 15 5,262 66.8 50.0 3,81

External links


References

  1. ↑ Fall River Schools Proposed 2012 Budget (PDF)
  2. ↑ [http://www.fallriverschools.org/agendaslocation.cfm Fall River Schools -- Agendas and Locations.
  3. ↑ Fall River Schools -- School Committee
  4. ↑ Fall River Schools -- Superintendent's Corner
  5. ↑ Fall River Schools -- Contracts
  6. ↑ Fall River Schools -- Student Services
  7. ↑ CORI form
  8. ↑ Fall River Schools -- School Committee
  9. ↑ Fall River Schools -- Superintendent
  10. ↑ Fall River Schools 2012 Budget Accessed 11 Oct 2011 (PDF)


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