February

Feb 4: Music Program Grade 4
Feb 8: School Board Meeting 5:30 Senior High
NH Conferences 4:30 - 7:30
Feb 9: CMS/SP Conferences 4:00 -7:00
Feb 11: NO SCHOOL K-5
NH/CMS Conferences
Feb 12: NO SCHOOL K-12
Feb 15: NO SCHOOL K-12
Feb 19 - Snoball
Feb 24 CMS Exploratory Day

Family Access Outage

January 21, 2010

Residents of East Grand Forks School District

East Grand Forks school district suffered a computer systems failure, and back up systems failed to operate properly. Since the failure the school district has assembled back up information from submitted data from Educational agencies and our own hard copy back up, to restore the data lost in the system failure. But the manner in which much of the data has to be restored has taken time.

It is our expectation, that by Tuesday January 26, 2010 the student management system will be functioning as normal for schedules and attendance.

Lunch accounts, beginning balances of accounts along with our record of deposits are being checked with our daily record of student expenditures to assure for accurate account balances.

Financially, all records are being re-entered to restore the data from internal documents and will be restored in out computer systems. No payrolls or payments have or will be affected.

All data will be restored in time and no permanent records have been lost. This system failure has caused significant inconvenience for our parents, students and staff, which we apologize for. 

David E. Pace
Superintendent of Schools

News and Announcements

February 3, 2010

Dear parents,

Our student information system is in the process of being restored. Children continue to eat breakfast and lunch, however payments are not coming in from families. Although exact balances will remain unknown at this point in time, please continue to send money with your child(ren) so that your lunch account balance does not end up being so large.  

At this point  current balances are not up to date as well as current purchases. This is a work in progress and should be current by March.  For those parents that have messages for their child(ren) limiting purchases, please be aware that these messages may no longer exist for the workers to see and may need to be dated. Please update these for your children.  

We are sorry for any inconvenience this has caused.

Sincerely yours,

Karen Pickett
Food Service Director

January 2010

2010 EGF Central Middle Schools Geography Bee Top Ten Finalists and Winners

Seated L to R :  2nd place CoCo P., Winner Joey J.
Standing:  Karli N.,  AJ A., Peyton B., Clarke P., Connor S., Jake O., Jace P., Ruben F.

Sertoma Club of Greater Grand Forks Awards Grant

Livia Zitso, third grade teacher at South Point Elementary, was fortunate enough to receive a $500 grant from the Sertoma Club of Greater Grand Forks for the purchase of an AlphaBetter Desk.  This is a stand-up desk/workstation for kids with a swinging foot rest and adjustable stool.  It is ergonomically correct and is marketed to help increase focus, attentiveness, better oxygen flow to the brain, and help students expend excess energy in a constructive way while learning in the classroom.  Thank you, Sertomma Club, for your generosity!

Employment Opportunity: Director of Business Services

See Employment link for more details

H1N1 Information

will be offering FREE H1N1 vaccinations in our 3 offices

Each Thursday in January

Walk in Basis
January 7th,  1-4pm
January 14th,  1-4pm
January 21st, 1-4pm
January 28th, 1-4pm

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