FIGHT FOR PARENTAL RIGHTS​

• Ensure parents have a say in their child’s education by encouraging communication between parents, teachers, and administrators, and BCSD.

• Promote transparency on the Board to inform parents and taxpayers of spending and school performance.

• Approved resolution affirming decision-making authority of parents over their child’s book access. A parent or guardian may also file a complaint to the Board with the updated KNBA Policy. 

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FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY

• Decreasing district debt while building new schools.

• BCSD started with a zero-based budget while Finance Chairman. We no longer bond toilet paper. We no longer have insurance on schools torn down. We now have a building plan and a facility maintenance plan.

• Held accountable those who have abused our educational system & seeking restitution of millions of dollars stolen from our school district.

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SUPPORT TEACHERS

• Advocated for teachers raises every year while on the board, including a 9% raise for teachers in one year while serving as Chairman of Finance. Plus, advocating for a 5% raise for all employees when the original discussion started at only 1% for all employees.

• Increased first-year teacher salaries to $52,450.

• Reduced millage by 9.9 mills.

• Approved 3% pay increase for all employees (2024).

• Approved 6.5% pay increase (2023).

• Approved salary study (phase one).

• Recruitment/retention incentives for staff and special education teachers.

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IMPROVE SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE

• Allocated - through the sales tax referendum - $25 million for Goose Creek High additions and repairs; $25 million for Hanahan Middle expansion; $2 million for Hanahan High artificial turf.

• Negotiated - through the City of Hanahan 2020 Parks Referendum - partnership with City of Hanahan at the new Williams Lane Park to provide landlocked Hanahan HS with a synthetic turf multi-purpose field and six lighted home team tennis courts. 

• BCSD will contribute $957,000 to upgrade the regulation multi-purpose field to synthetic turf and to install the lighted courts (open to the Public when not in school use).

• At Hanahan High School - Allocated $700,000 on the replacement of school's track and acquired additional property to increase parking.

• New parking at Hanahan High.

• New lockers and weight room improvements for Goose Creek High.

• Renovation at Hanahan Middle. 

• Aug 2023: successfully opened Carolyn Lewis School. 

• Penny Tax approved for school construction.

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SAFETY

• 2024: Purchased weapons screeners for high school events. 

• Aug 2023: Adoption of Standard Response Protocol (SRP) for improved communication of emergency situations.