L’view board accepts teacher resignation

KELSEY CLEMONS/independent correspondent

The Lincolnview Local Board of Education met at its regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday to discuss changes for the 2015-2016 school year.

The board accepted the resignation of Brad Doidge as girls’ varsity softball coach, effective the end of the 2014-2015 season. Doidge still coaches three sports for the district. Also resigning was Kinsey Kay Miller (Dobbelaere) as high school art teacher and high school play sets director. Miller will be going back to her home school of Paulding and the board wished her luck in her new position.

During the meeting, the board made the decision to opt out of career-technical education for the middle school and developed with Vantage Career Center a program for the 2016-2017 school year.

Superintendent Jeffrey Snyder spoke of the middle school physics program that is a potential for the district’s future during his report to the board. The program, he feels, would improve economic achievement in the local schools.

The superintendent noted that a non-profit organization called See the Change helps to fund this project, adding that, if Lincolnview made the decision to go with a middle school physics program, it would be the first school in Ohio to do so.

Snyder also spoke of the dramatic testing changes to take place the 2015-2016 school year. With the decision to remove PARCC testing from schools, students would see a rapid decline in testing from the 2,000 tests taken last year by choosing to go with AIR to administer tests.

In other action, the board also:

• Approved a transportation contract with Christopher Shane Woods and Linda A Homan for the 2015-2016 school year.
• Accepted the annual gym floor advertising payment from Van Wert Federal Savings Bank of $5,000.
• Approved a one-year supplemental summer school contract for Dan Williamson for the summer of 2015

The next meeting for the Lincolnview Local Board of Education will be held at 6 p.m. Tuesday, August 18, in the Neubrecht Lecture Hall.