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Community Foundation awards grants
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Monroe County Intermediate School District received $68,650 from the Monroe Health Plan Endowment Fund for supporting educator wellness.
Educational staff will now receive evidence-based training, psychoeducation on mental health upon hire, and a physical space in the school building to practice positive, proactive coping skills that will increase learning and self-regulation both personally and professionally.
“Though training is presented to educational staff around Monroe County, including Youth Mental Health First Aid, self-care for the school professional is often the last topic discussed in these trainings. There needs to be a paradigm shift in supporting educator wellness because if our teachers do not have the tools to be regulated, neither will students,” said the Community Foundation.
Support both millages Tuesday
This Tuesday, May 4, will be very important for two of our countywide millages. The longest was set in place in 1997 as the Monroe County Technology Millage and the second is the Monroe County Museum Systems Millage, which began in 2012.
I happened to be involved with both as a member of the Mason Consolidated Schools Board of Education for the Monroe County Intermediate School District countywide Technology Millage and with the museum as a volunteer and Museum Commissioner (today a trustee).
In most county schools there was a of lack new technology unless your luck was to have funding to purchase technology for school buildings. At Mason we were accepting a few donated outdated computers. As a funding plan, we tried three times to pass a technology a millage in 1995-96, but each time we were turned down. Thanks to the ISD in 1997 a Countywide Technology Millage was developed and passed for all nine public school districts, including Mason. This technology education in the internet age does help qualify students for jobs in business and industry.
Renewal of tech millage is huge step in the right direction
The Monroe News
This Tuesday, May 4, Monroe County voters are being asked to renew the Monroe County Technology Enhancement Millage. This levy was first passed in 1997 and has been renewed 4 times since. Though the tech millage does not fund traditional materials nor bricks and mortar projects, its impact upon educational opportunity continues to be truly transformative in this day and age.
The Monroe County Intermediate School District (ISD) was the first in Michigan to pass an enhancement millage for educational technology and remains the only ISD in Michigan to have done so. Originally, the millage was for 1 mill and today is slightly less, .9866 of a mill. If the renewal is approved a homeowner whose home has a taxable value of $100,000.00 will continue to pay $98.66 annually for educational technology in our public schools. It is not a tax increase.
City of Monroe endorses museum millage renewal and increase
The City of Monroe has endorsed the proposed renewal and increase of the Monroe County Museum System’s operating millage.
Monroe City Council on Monday unanimously approved a resolution of support for the proposed renewal of the museum’s current, .10-mill levy, as well as a requested .05-mill increase. Monroe County residents will vote on these two issues on May 4.
If approved by voters, the 10-year millage would generate $991,500 in revenue in its first year. The present levy – which, without increase, would generate $643,648 for the museum - expires at the end of this year.
Earth Day 2021: Pandemic cuts down on paper at local schools
There’s another reason for celebration this Earth Day: Schools are saving trees.
More electronic devices in the hands of students translates to less paper at area schools. In some cases, that reduction has been even greater since the pandemic began.
Bedford Public Schools, Airport Community Schools and St. Mary Catholic Central High School are among the local schools that are reporting a paper reduction.
Bedford
Bedford Public Schools, like other school districts, purchases paper literally by the truckload. Each load is 840 cases. Administrators are finding they are making these purchases less frequently.
ISD shows support for museum millage renewal
The Monroe News
On May 4th, voters in Monroe County will have an opportunity to vote on two issues that have tremendously impacted the community. The Monroe County Museum System and the Monroe County Intermediate School District have two separate millages on the ballot that have the ability to influence education in Monroe County.
We understand that ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ and there are several community members/partners who support the learning ecosystem in Monroe County. The Monroe County Museum System is an organization whose mission is to fuel and cultivate students’ curiosity about Monroe County’s rich and varied history through story and artifacts.
City council offers support for tech millage renewal
The City of Monroe has thrown its support behind the renewal of the county-wide education technology millage, which voters will consider in a May 4 special election.
Council on Monday unanimously approved a resolution of support for the one-mill levy renewal which, if passed, would extend the millage another five years.
State law says the Monroe County Intermediate School District is responsible for collecting the revenue raised by the millage. The ISD and the county’s public school districts, along with New Bedford Academy and Triumph Academy, each receive a share of the revenue based on enrollment numbers.