Superintendent Phyllis Edwards send this note out to the Decatur community yesterday afternoon…

Dear Families,

We hope you are having an exciting pre-holiday season. Our schools are balancing a focus on learning and the eagerness your children feel!

Several systemwide committees have been working at my request:

• Engagement
• Enrollment Trends
• Start and End Time for RMS and DHS
• Transportation Options

Members include parents, students, and CSD employees. Each of these committees are creating recommendations that will be presented to the Board after the new year.

The Start and End Time for RMS and DHS committee has requested the community to offer their perceptions through an online survey. Although this committee is focusing on start and end times for RMS and DHS only, the survey has been launched to all CSD families. We have heard that families would like more time, so the survey has been extended to December 16, 2011. If you need Parent Portal access to reach the survey, please go to your child’s school in person to acquire your login information. Once you reach Parent Portal, select “Inbox” to find the survey.

This committee will continue to focus only on start and end times for RMS and DHS. However, all the data collected through this survey will be used by the Transportation Committee, as well as myself and school leaders, as decisions are made regarding 2012-2013 start and end times for all schools.

Sincerely,

Dr. Phyllis Edwards