Panel: Hire clerks for schools
Suggestion would add staff of 52
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An East Baton Rouge Parish school panel on Wednesday recommended that the school system hire 52 school clerks for elementary schools before the start of the 2008-2009 school year in August.
These new positions would cost about $1.4 million a year if approved by the School Board at its March 20 meeting and would make sure that every elementary school has at least one such clerk.
The school system once had part-time clerks who worked at elementary schools alongside the school secretaries, but most of those positions were eliminated during a round of budget cuts years ago, said Paula Fabre, one of the two assistant superintendents overseeing elementary schools.
In a memo proposing the new hires, Associate Superintendent for Human Resources Elizabeth Duran Swinford said that school secretaries have more demands than ever and need help. She listed 28 different duties that school clerks would assist the secretaries with if they were hired.
Da’Anne Lipscomb, principal of LaBelle Aire Elementary School, was one of 18 elementary school principals who showed up at Wednesday’s School Operations Committee to lend their support to the new hires. She said that her large elementary school has a lot of work for its clerks to do, for instance, adding and dropping almost 30 students just in the past week.
“I don’t know how any school secretary could live without a school clerk right now,” Lipscomb said.
Also Wednesday, the School Board’s Finance Committee recommended replacing the roof of the Central Office, at a cost of about $472,000, and replacing most of a school supply warehouse roof along Choctaw Drive, at a cost of about $512,000. Both roofs are to be replaced starting this summer and should be complete by December.
School employees will continue to work in the two buildings while construction is under way, said Bob Cooper, director of physical plant. Cooper noted that about a fifth of the Choctaw warehouse roof was replaced two years after it was damaged in the wake of Hurricane Rita.
These new positions would cost about $1.4 million a year if approved by the School Board at its March 20 meeting and would make sure that every elementary school has at least one such clerk.
The school system once had part-time clerks who worked at elementary schools alongside the school secretaries, but most of those positions were eliminated during a round of budget cuts years ago, said Paula Fabre, one of the two assistant superintendents overseeing elementary schools.
In a memo proposing the new hires, Associate Superintendent for Human Resources Elizabeth Duran Swinford said that school secretaries have more demands than ever and need help. She listed 28 different duties that school clerks would assist the secretaries with if they were hired.
Da’Anne Lipscomb, principal of LaBelle Aire Elementary School, was one of 18 elementary school principals who showed up at Wednesday’s School Operations Committee to lend their support to the new hires. She said that her large elementary school has a lot of work for its clerks to do, for instance, adding and dropping almost 30 students just in the past week.
“I don’t know how any school secretary could live without a school clerk right now,” Lipscomb said.
Also Wednesday, the School Board’s Finance Committee recommended replacing the roof of the Central Office, at a cost of about $472,000, and replacing most of a school supply warehouse roof along Choctaw Drive, at a cost of about $512,000. Both roofs are to be replaced starting this summer and should be complete by December.
School employees will continue to work in the two buildings while construction is under way, said Bob Cooper, director of physical plant. Cooper noted that about a fifth of the Choctaw warehouse roof was replaced two years after it was damaged in the wake of Hurricane Rita.
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