JAY – School Committee members accepted three leaves of absences, hired teachers and readmitted two high school students expelled last winter. The committee also accepted a milk bid in a joint venture with three other school systems.

Two Jay teachers, Melanie Chasse and Heidi Goodwin were granted one-year leave of absences to do special projects.

Chasse, technology teacher at the Elementary School was offered a position at Apple Computers to work on the Maine Laptop project, said committee Chairman Jim Durrell.

Goodwin has been offered the position of Title I Distinguished Educator at the Maine Department of Education, he said.

“It speaks highly of them and also our district to have two teachers recognized in that manner,” Durrell said.

The school board also granted a leave of absence through Dec. 1 to Dianna Pomerleau, volunteer coordinator.

Committee members accepted Superintendent Stephen Cottrell’s nominations of Patty Schoen to fill the position of Middle School alternative education, education technician III; Jen St. Pierre as elementary special services education technician I; Jeff Jewell as seventh- and eighth-grade social studies teacher and Reed Dyer as fifth- and sixth-grade language art teacher.

The board readmitted two students to Jay High School who were expelled last school year for violating the substance abuse policy.

The board also accepted a milk bid, which was combined with SADs 9, 17 and 43. The accepted bid was from H.P. Hood with a range of prices depending on quantity and flavor, including 8 ounces of white milk just under 14 cents.

dperry@sunjournal.com

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