The Worth County R-III Board of Education met on Thursday, September 17, 2020 to conduct school district business. At the end of the meeting, Superintendent Dr. Matt Martz announced his intent to retire at the end of the present school year. The board will prepare and approve a timeline for selecting the next superintendent at the October board meeting.
The board of education heard introductions from three district teachers, Megan Humphrey, third grade, John Lachowsky, HS Social Studies, and Alison Brandt, Family and Consumer Sciences. The administrative team presented information about the opening of school and gave the board an update on items implemented for preventing the transmission of COVID. Chris Healy, District Tech Administrator, presented information on the districts roll out of 1:1 computer accessibility.
“We will assign each student in grades 3-12 a Chromebook beginning on September 28, 2020. These computers will eventually go home daily with students. Our goal with this program is to provide our students with the devices that we will need to use in the event that we have to go remote with our learning,” said Mr. Healy.
In other board business, the board approved a resolution which authorizes the superintendent to contact the county health department requesting that district employees receive essential workers status.
“If we can get this classification, our employees that would be considered a close contact to an active case of COVID would still be able to come to work as long as they take the required precautions and remain symptom free. We would not allow staff having symptoms or that have been asked to isolate to come to work,” said Dr. Matthew Martz, school superintendent. “Our first and foremost concern is the safety of our students and staff.”
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