FYI from Jim Ballard - February 28-March 6
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Know Your Rights: ‘Tis the Season for Non-Renewal of Employment Contracts
From the Executive Director, Jim Ballard
The next ten weeks is the season for non-renewal for school administrator employment contracts. If your contract is at risk, please call us early in the process. Please, don’t wait. More than once I’ve had members call asking for help and telling me that the Board meeting was scheduled that afternoon! -Click Here to Read More-
Principals Questions of the Week
Do you use Accelerated Reader at your High School?
What type of per pupil funding do you have for your art programs?
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Upcoming Events
March 10, 2009, "Middle Level and the Michigan Merit Curriculum" Webinar - Making a Plan
March 24, 25 & 26, 2009, Are You Sure They're Telling the Truth, Escanaba, Lansing & Auburn Hills
April 4-6, 2009, Annual Student State Leadership Conference, Grand Traverse Resort, Acme
April 29, 2009, MASSP Spring Law Update with Lisa Swem, MELG Building, Lansing
May 7-8, 2009, School Secretaries' Seminar, Soaring Eagle Resort, Mt. Pleasant
May 15, 2009, Schools To Watch
June 2-3, 2009, IB World Schools 4th Bi-Annual Symposium
June 21-24, 2009, Annual Summer Retreat, Mission Point Resort, Mackinac Island
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