Xenia Community School News

Xenia Educational Endowment Fund awards classroom grants to teachers
Xenia Community Schools plans to survey residents about districts financial status
Xenia Community Schools sets dates, locations for annual Summer Food Service Program

Xenia Educational Endowment Fund awards classroom grants to teachers

A Xenia Community School teacher was honored at the recent June Xenia Board of Education meeting for receiving a classroom grant from the Xenia Educational Endowment Fund (XEEF).  Xenia Board of Education and XEEF member Ron Roth presented Simon Kenton Elementary School teacher Jenny Paxson a grant valued at $599.10 for her Listen to Reading program. The Xenia Educational Endowment Fund was organized in 1985 as a nonprofit organization to support programs that encourage achievement of the highest standards for Xenia students. XEEF is governed by a board that consists of representatives from the Xenia Education Association, the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Education.

Xenia Community Schools plans to survey residents about districts financial status

Local residents may receive a telephone call in the coming weeks to determine their understanding of the financial challenges faced by Xenia Community Schools in preparation for a tentative renewal levy on the November ballot.

We respect the financial challenges faced by everyone in our community, Supt. Jeffrey K. Lewis, Ed.D., says, and we want to be respectful to taxpayers as we continue to struggle with the challenges posed by the State of Ohio funding system.  The state funding system is archaic and poses a very real risk to the survival of all school districts.

No district funds were used to raise for the telephone survey.
 
Three levies will expire by December 31, 2011, Dr. Lewis says, and one could tentatively be on the November 2010 ballot. 

There has been some confusion about the November ballot, he adds.  Xenia Community Schools will not have three levies on the November ballot as shared at a recent Xenia City Council meeting and in the Xenia Daily Gazette.  At this time, only one levy is tentatively scheduled for the November ballot and it is a property tax.

The Xenia school district recently made approximately $2 million is budget cuts for the 2010-2011 school year to cope with reduced funding sources.

Xenia Community Schools sets dates, locations for annual Summer Food Service Program

Xenia Community Schools announces the sponsorship of the Summer Food Service Program for Children. 

Free meals will be made available to all children 18 years of age and under or persons between the ages of 19 to 21 who are determined by a state or local public educational agency to be mentally or physically disabled. 

Meals will be provided at Central Middle School Cafeteria, 425 Edison Blvd., Xenia, with breakfast served between  7:45 to 8:30 a.m. and lunch between 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Meal will be served Monday through Friday beginning June 21 and continue until July 23. No meals will be served on Monday, July 5.

All meals must be eaten on the site, children's meals may not be given to an adult. Adults may purchase meals, however, for $2.75.

The meals will be provided without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, age, or disability, and there will be no discrimination in the course of the meal service. 

Any person who believes he or she has been discriminated against in any USDA related activity should write or call immediately to the U. S.
Department of Agriculture, Director, Office of Civil Rights, Room 326-W, Whitten Building, 14th & Independence Ave. S. W., Washington DC 20250-9410; (202) 720-5964 (voice or TDD).