ANDERSON, Ind. —
For an Anderson Community School Corp. board meeting, it was unusually uneventful and swift Tuesday evening.
The school board met in Anderson High School’s auditorium, 4610 S. Madison Ave., in a meeting that only lasted an hour.
New board member Danny McGhee was sworn in with a group of community members there in his support.
McGhee was voted in as the newest board member Jan. 31 to replace Tyrone Vertner, who resigned in December.
Special Services Director Angie Vickery gave a presentation on the services ACS offers and the number of special education students in the school district.
Like the rest of enrollment at ACS — the district lost nearly 1,200 students this year — the enrollment of special education students has also dropped.
Numbers decreased from 1,910 in 2008 to 1,745 in 2011, according to Vickery.
“Overall a slow decline, not a major decline,” she said.
While students are being lost, Vickery said the percentage of special education students in the district is actually growing.
Those students make up 25 percent of the school system’s population, she said.
East Side Intermediate School also recognized Vectren for the $11,565 grant it gave the school this year to purchase interactive white boards containing thousands of applications to help students learn in new ways.
Principal Yvonne Ritchey gave East Side’s yearly report.
In other news, Superintendent Felix Chow said administrative assignments will be made at the end of the week so parents will soon know who their new school administrators are.
Next month the board will look at the attendance policy.
Contact Dani Palmer: 640-4847, dani.palmer@heraldbulletin.com
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Danny McGhee, shown here during a prior interview, was sworn in Tuesday, Feb. 14, as the newest member of the Anderson Community Schools board. John P. Cleary
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