The trustees additionally voted to make a transfer into the electrical automobile discipline when the board voted to pursue grants to purchase an electrical college bus.

Superintendent Kermit Ward mentioned he’s engaged on two grants that may assist fund the acquisition.

“We’ve some buses which are approaching the tip of their service,” he mentioned. “One of many buses that we at the moment use will flip 30 within the spring.”

He mentioned shopping for the electrical bus and charging station can be the correct transfer heading into the long run.

“This makes a lot sense for our district, a district with an growing older fleet,” he mentioned. “The world is at the moment experiencing a climate phenomena which many assume is partly because of emissions, and different human interactions and use of Earth’s sources. We merely wish to do our half to reverse the tendencies.”

Because of a board vote, Clarksville can have girls and boys cross-county and golf groups for the approaching college yr.

The board voted to fund the 4 groups at Ward’s urging to extend extracurricular actions for district college students.

Ward advised the board that the transfer of third-, fourth- and fifth-grade college students to the center college went easily and the power shall be prepared for the scholars initially of the varsity yr.

The board additionally authorised the Head Begin settlement with Detroit ISD, the scholar handbook and the academics’ appraisal calendar for the yr.