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Centerville-Abington Community Schools board meeting, Aug 19, 2026

24 min

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What happened

What happened at this meeting

Centerville-Abington board approves retreat and project requisitions in 5⁠-⁠0 votes 5:01

  • A speaker gave an enrollment update, saying the district was down 19 students overall and that the official count date is October 1st. 7:44
  • A speaker said a new state law requires employers to carry workers' comp insurance for unpaid interns, which would keep students in the work-based learning program from going out to some employers. 18:03
Item by item (10)
  1. Opening and consent items 0:07
    • The meeting was called to order and opened with the Pledge of Allegiance. 0:09
    • No one approached the podium during community comments. 0:30
    • The consent items were approved 5⁠-⁠0. 0:56
  2. Public hearing before negotiations 1:18
    • A speaker said official negotiation discussions cannot start until September 15th and that a public hearing is required first. 1:28
    • The speaker said the hearing would be shown live and actual negotiations would likely take place later in September. 1:28
  3. Update on test scores 2:15
    • A staff member said the district had 100% passing on the iRead score and was one of only 9 public school corporations in Indiana to reach that mark. 2:24
    • The staff member said iLearn scores would be released next month. 2:24
    • The staff member said the district had the highest SAT math scores in the county and the second highest in reading and writing. 3:39
  4. Annual FCA retreat request 4:09
    • A speaker said the annual FCA retreat request is brought back every year so the board can vote on it. 4:13
    • The board approved the FCA retreat 5⁠-⁠0. 5:01
  5. Project requisitions and fundraisers 1:00
    • A speaker asked why there were only 4 project requisitions for the junior high. 1:00
    • A speaker said the requisitions came in slowly because the district was out 3 days after they were due, but that the speaker believed all of them were in. 5:37
    • The board approved the packet of project requisitions and fundraisers from all buildings 5⁠-⁠0. 7:19
  6. Update on enrollment 7:18
    • The speaker said the district lost 6 students to the IUE school and fewer students to online schooling than expected. 7:44
    • A speaker said the district was down 19 students overall, with 553 transfer students, 40 of them in pre-K. 8:05
    • A speaker said the figures were not official and that October 1st is the count date. 11:22
  7. Response to last week's rain 11:37
    • A staff member said the district stored frozen food for Cambridge City Schools in the junior high freezer while that district was out of power. 11:46
    • The staff member said a church in Milton provided several skids of food that the district was storing to deliver to families. 12:27
    • A staff member said about 8 or 9 families were listed on a spreadsheet as seeking assistance, calling it a very unofficial number. 13:13
  8. Additional transfer, donation, development and employment items 16:01
    • The board took up an additional transfer student, an additional donation, an additional professional development request and an additional employment report. 16:30
    • The transfer student, the professional development request and the employment report each passed 5⁠-⁠0. 16:38
  9. State law affecting work-based learning 18:03
    • A speaker said a new law requires employers to carry workers' comp insurance for unpaid interns and that 80% of the district's interns are unpaid. 18:45
    • The speaker said students likely will not get 75 hours for the first semester, which would affect additional state funding. 19:56
    • The speaker said the district had reached out to senators, representatives and the DOE. 20:22
  10. Adjournment 23:27
    • The meeting was adjourned at 7:23. 23:36

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Video: posted by the district as “CACS Board Meeting Live Stream, August 19, 2026 7PM”