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Advocate for Your Students: Register Today for Joint Legislative Conference Join MSBA — along with the Association of Minnesota Counties, Minnesota Association of Townships, and League of Minnesota Cities — for a day of advocacy Thursday, March 25, at the Crowne Plaza in St. Paul. The day’s schedule includes a panel of legislative leaders, a legislative update from your MSBA lobbyists, and meetings with your local senators and representatives.
Click here for more information, including a complete schedule of events.
Register your school leaders as a team through your district office in our Members Area. If you plan on attending, please fill out this sheet and bring it with you for discussion.
Also, a "Women in Local Government Networking Forum" (in conjunction with the Joint Legislative Conference) is scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 24, at the Crowne Plaza in St. Paul. Click here for more information.
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NEW 2010 School Board Election Timelines Now Available Because of a new law that will move the primary from September to August, election timelines for all districts will change. MSBA, working with the Minnesota Secretary of State's Office, has posted new timelines for school district election officials.
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 Playground Grants Available through MSBA Playground Compliance Program MSBA is pleased to announce the “Outdoor Play Grants” for Minnesota schools. These grants will serve to assist communities to build environmentally friendly, healthy, safe and accessible play areas for their children and are available for a limited time.
MSBA will provide matching cash grants of a minimum of $2,000 to a maximum of $15,000 to eligible candidates who demonstrate a strong desire to improve the overall safety, accessibility and health of their play areas. Any school, government or nonprofit entity is an eligible applicant. Multiple applications from an entity are acceptable.
Click here for more information or here for an application.
Click here for more information on the MSBA Playground Compliance Program.
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 MSBA Offering FREE PaySchools™ Online Demonstrations Because of the huge response from MSBA, MASA and MASBO members, PaySchools™ (online payment system) has set up a recurring schedule of free demonstrations. We invite you to join us for an hour-long demonstration of the PaySchools™ system. Pat Ricci, PaySchools’ National Marketing Director, will lead the discussion and demonstrate the system.
The next PaySchools demonstration is scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday, March 25. Click here to register today.
Future dates are added approximately once a month – check back here for future demonstrations as scheduled.
For more information, click here to visit MSBA's PaySchools Web page or click here to view a PaySchools brochure.
PaySchools™ provides schools with an easy and efficient method to collect fees and receive electronic payments for school lunches, field trips, registrations, prom tickets, apparel, fundraisers, donations and any other school-related fees. PaySchools™ makes it possible for all schools to offer parents the convenience of online purchasing and payment without incurring large administration or setup costs. And there is good news for SMART Finance users. PaySchools™, in cooperation with the folks at SMART Finance, has been customized for Minnesota school districts that use SMART Finance!
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FREE Learn@Lunch webinar to show members how to get information from MSBA's PEERNet system MSBA will offer a free webinar broadcast of "Finding Your Way through PEERNet" at noon Thursday, March 18. PEERNet is your source of information for administrative salaries, licensed salaries, master agreements, grievance arbitrations and more. Register today in our Members Area. If you missed one of our webinars, you can still view it Click this link to access our archives.
MSBA's first webinar, "Keeping Your District in Compliance With the Open Meeting Law," was broadcast October 15. It is now archived for your viewing and will be available to members through May 28, 2010.
The second Learn @ Lunch webinar, "Referenda Lessons and Trends" was broadcast November 19. It is now archived for your viewing, and will be available to members through May 28, 2010.
The third Learn @ Lunch webinar, "New Rules Around Unrequested Leave of Absence" was broadcast Feb. 23. It is now archived for your viewing, and will be available to members through May 28, 2010.
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 2010 MSBA Student School Board Member Scholarship Applications MSBA will reward two high school seniors $3,000 each as part of the continuing MSBA Student School Board Member Scholarship Program.
Eligible students will fill out a short application, write a brief one-page paper and send in two letters of recommendation -- one from a board member and one from a school superintendent, principal or employee who can comment on the student's School Board service. All materials must be mailed or e-mailed to Greg Abbott at MSBA by April 1.
Look for details in the Jan. 29 Boardcaster and the links below:
Click here for the 2010 Student School Board Member Application
MSBA Student School Board Member Scholarship Flier
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2010 MSBA Legislative Platform
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