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MARTINS FERRY The Martins Ferry Board of Education prepared to close out the 2020-21 school year Tuesday.
Staff receiving financial recognition for their work and risks taken during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The board approved a 4 percent base salary increase.
A $1,000 COVID bonus for all teachers, staff, administrators and at-will central office employees effective Aug. 1.
Treasurer Dana Garrison said the staff will receive 4-percent raises for 2022 through 2024.
“The COVID bonus is only a one-time payment of $1,000 per employee, and it’s due to the additional work and in-person teaching … versus remote,” Garrison said, adding teachers, administrators and office staff come to about 122 employees, for a total of $122,000.
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Martins Ferry City Schools Superintendent Jim Fogle explains the district’s new policy for athletic eligibility by following the Ohio High School Athletic Association’s standards rather than maintaining a set grade point average.
By ROBERT A. DEFRANK
Times Leader Staff Writer
MARTINS FERRY Student athletes at Martins Ferry City Schools District will be following the Ohio High School Athletic Association’s standards rather than maintaining a set grade point average if they want to play sports.
On Tuesday’s school board meeting, the board voted to follow OHSAA guidelines for student athletic eligibility and eliminate the current 1.0 grade point average requirement, as well as approving the OHSAA guidelines for the 2021-22 school year and disregarding the fall waiver of requirements.
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MARTINS FERRY Students in Martins Ferry City Schools will have the opportunity to catch up this summer if their educations have suffered due to COVID-19 disruptions.
Superintendent Jim Fogle said programs will be offered in compliance with requests from the state that all school districts devise a plan to help students who have fallen behind due to lack of in-person instruction and missed classes.
“Our administrative team has met, and we drafted a survey that we sent out to our teachers,” Fogle said during Tuesday’s board meeting. “We are proposing a summer tutoring program. We’re looking at doing that the month of June.”
RIGHT: Babe Sidon, a teacher at Ayers Elementary School in Martins Ferry, is vaccinated Wednesday.
STAFF IN Belmont County school districts received their COVID-19 vaccines last week, with health department staff, volunteers and school nurses conducting clinics daily at different sites.
During his Thursday talk, Gov. Mike DeWine said the four-week drive to offer at least the first of two vaccines to all school staff would be met by the vast majority of districts despite snow and ice storms. The overall goal is to have all students back in class full time by March 1.
Belmont County’s school districts have shared that aim and have stressed keeping their students in the classrooms as long as possible. Throughout the week, more than half the staff members in each district were vaccinated. Schools will now look to ways to redress any disruptions in learning this school year.