Local Foster parents honored

by MATT HUGHES

J-E Editor

Sue and Alan Haynes of Sebree were recently honored by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services for being very special parents. They were named Outstanding Service Recipients for their work as foster parents, something they have been doing since 2009.

“We had just moved to Webster County, when our daughter was in a wreck,” Sue Haynes said. “Her best friend died in that accident. She had wanted to grow up to be a social worker, so we got involved in this in her honor.”

School Board sets SBDM allocations

by MATT HUGHES

J-E Editor

On Monday night, Webster County School Superintendent Rachel Yarbrough and Deputy Assistant Superintendant Georgiann McCord presented school board members with an altered School-Based Decision Making council (SBDM) allocations for the 2015-2016 school year.

SBDM, which consists of a mixture of parent, teacher and administration members at each school, handles the hiring of faculty within their school. Each year the school board presents the council with enough funding for a specific amount of teachers, based on the number of students expected to be enrolled in the fall and the classroom capacity set by the state. That allocation does not include staffing for Special Education classes, which comes from a different allocation.

Murphy appointed to KSBA board

by MATT HUGHES

J-E Editor

Webster County will now have a voice in one of the largest groups of elected officials in the commonwealth of Kentucky. 

At the annual Kentucky School Board Association (KSBA) conference last week in Louisville, KSBA president Allen Kennedy appointed Webster County Board Member Venita Murpy to fill a vacancy as Second Region regional chairperson on the Kentucky School Boards Association (KSBA) Board of Directors.