Lafayette County School District, Florida

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Lafayette County School District is a school district in Florida. The school system has a total attendance of 1,078 students project for the 2009-2010 school year. The Florida Department of Education provides a list of past, current, and future school enrollment totals for each district.

[edit] Website evaluation

Main article: Evaluation of Florida school district websites

[edit] The good

  • Union contract is posted.[1]
  • Student Progression Plan is available.[2] Testing schedule posted.[3]
  • School board meetings are posted on the calendar.[4]
  • Board members are listed with contact information.[5]
  • Public records contact is posted, no other information is available.[6]

[edit] The bad

  • Budget is not published.
  • Site does not have a search function.
  • Does not provide information on taxes, meeting minutes and agendas, administrative officials, vendor contracts, audits, and background checks.

[edit] School Board

The school board controls school property, establishes, organizes, and operates the schools of the district, including: establishing schools, adopting enrollment plans, providing for school elimination and consolidation, cooperating with school boards of adjoining districts in maintaining schools, maintaining the school year schedule and other more specific duties as outlined in the Florida statute. [7]

It operates, controls and supervises the district's public schools as well as determines the rate of school district taxes, with the option of two or more school districts operating and financing educational programs together.

Below are the school district board members:[8]

School board member District Term Term expires
Glenda Hart District 1
Henry McCray District 2
Robert Koon District 3
Terry Fillyaw District 4
Jerry Hill District 5

[edit] Teacher Contracts

The Lafayette County School Board and the Lafayette Education Association negotiated an agreement for 2008-2009 on wages, hours and other conditions of employment.[9]

[edit] School Budget

The total budget for the 2008-09 year for Lafayette was $9,085,915.35. Of this total $5,245,227.52 was dedicated to employee salaries and $1,427,919.27 to employee benefits.[10]

School revenue was allocated as such:

  • State: $6,318,808.22
  • Local: $1,345,810
  • Other: $1,421,297.13

Currently, the district enrolls 1,082 students in their schools.[11]

The school also received $122,353 from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan.[12]

[edit] Academic performance

For 2008-09 Lafayette County school district received an "A" for the first time in the past five years.[13]

[edit] 2007-2009

Below is a chart of the school's grade based on the student's performance of the statewide test called the FCAT.[14]

School Level Grade: 2007-08 Grade: 2008-09
Lafayette Elementary Elementary B A
Lafayette High School Combination B B

[edit] Unions

[edit] School choice

See also: Florida school choice

According to a recent survey, Lafayette County currently has no charter school opportunities, even though Florida has 378 charter schools statewide.[15]

[edit] Lobbying

Main article: Florida taxpayer-funded lobbying

The school district pays membership dues to the Florida School Boards Association, a taxpayer-funded lobbying association.[16]

[edit] External links

[edit] References

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  1. ↑ LEA Agreement
  2. ↑ Student Progression Plan
  3. ↑ Testing
  4. ↑ Calendar
  5. ↑ School Board Members
  6. ↑ Public Records Contact
  7. ↑ School board powers and duties, Florida statute
  8. ↑ School board members
  9. ↑ 2008-2009 Agreement
  10. ↑ Lafayette County 2008-09 school budget
  11. ↑ Lafayette County School District Information
  12. ↑ [Recovery government website
  13. ↑ Suwannee Democrat, An ‘A’ for Lafayette schools, June 22, 2009
  14. ↑ Florida School Accountability Reports
  15. ↑ [http://www.floridaschoolchoice.org/Information/Charter_Schools/Directory/Default.aspx Florida Charter School List by District
  16. ↑ Florida School Boards Association members list


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