In an attempt to ensure that students from other districts are not attending the Shelton Public Schools illegally, a reporting hotline has been established effective immediately. Anyone with reason to believe that a young person attending one of the Shelton Public Schools does not live in Shelton is asked to make an anonymous report to the Assistant Superintendent’s office at 924-1023 ext. 306. The caller should give as many details as possible. All calls will be thoroughly investigated by the district’s outreach worker. Any students found to be attending illegally will be mandated to return to their home schools.
Budget Posted
The Summary of the 2008-09 Budget Estimate is posted for your review. The expenditures for the 2006-07 budget year, the current budget, the additional amount of money needed to carry on the same programs we currently have, the amount of money requested for improvements to our programs and the Total Budget Estimate for 2008-09 are shown. The percent of the increase in each line appears in the last column. A brief description of each family of expenditures is provided as well as the reason for any increases or decreases in the family. Copies of the entire budget book are available in the Finance Office at the Board of Education. If you wish to view the 2008-09 Executive Summary - please click here
The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 requires a statewide school accountability system. The state is required to determine if every district is making adequate yearly progress, and the school system is then required to report that information to parents and the community. Six of Shelton’s eight schools made Adequate Yearly Progress. Based on sub-group performance, two of our schools made Safe Harbor. Although progress was made, it was somewhat below the required standard.
Please go here to see the 2006-2007 NCLB Adequate Yearly Progress Report for the Shelton School District.
The Shelton School Readiness Council recently received three substantial grants, all of which received full or partial funding from the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund in Hamden. Through its Discovery Initiative, the Memorial Fund is working with 53 Connecticut communities, including Shelton, and other partners statewide to improve the early school success of young children from birth through age eight. Full article
With bad weather becoming more of a concern, it's important to review our school hours in case of delays and early closings. Once can find this information by going here.
We will post emergency school closings, dismissals, and delays on the district home page and the home pages of each school site. You can find additional cancellation information by clicking on the Information>School Closings link on the navigation bar at left. You can have notices of school cancellations emailed to you by registering on WVIT's website.
A brochure on the proposed 5/6 upper elementary school has been posted to help answer any questions you may have. It was prepared by the Shelton Board of Education ad hoc committee on the Long Range Plan. Please direct questions or comments to committee chairperson Carla Sullivan at csullivan@sheltonpublicschools.org. Download the brochure here.
Do you have a question, concern or comment you would like to share with a Board Member? You can e-mail our members directly from this site. Go to Board of Education - Go to Board Members - Click on the board member's name you wish to contact - type the correspondence - hit send.
