8/13/13 - At the Brighton Area Schoolsâ Board of Education meeting Monday night board members decided as their first item of business to take reinstatement of a media technology assistantâs position off the agenda. Some on the board wanted the item at least discussed, if not acted upon. The vote to drop the media assistant reinstatement item from the agenda passed 4-3 with Vice President Bill Anderson, Board Treasurer Jay Krause and Trustee Beth Minert voting no. The media assistant would have come from the ranks of the 20 people laid off at the last board meeting and would be assigned to the high school media center to serve the large number of the high schoolâs 2,000 students who utilize the center and help the new media specialist who will be starting in September. Anderson says a qualified person is needed for the position, particularly with all the new technology that is being installed this summer as part of the $88 million bond issue. During the public comments portion, Media Specialist Margaret Adams told the board they should carefully consider their action,, saying that media positions in district schools are down to unacceptable levels. However, Superintendent Greg Gray tells WHMI that the district has every intention of bringing back as many of those positions as possible, depending on district finances and what enrollment numbers are when school starts on Sept. 3. Gray adds that the item may very well be back on the agenda when the board meets again on August 26. Also on Monday, the resignation of Director of Technology Elson Liu was accepted âwith regret.â Liu has held the tech directorâs position for nearly six years, and, before that, held the same position for eight years in the Howell Public Schools. Liu will be leaving Brighton at the end of August to accept a position with the Plymouth-Canton School District. (TT)
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