The following presentation was shared with the Muncie-Delaware County Chamber of Commerce's Business Education Partnership Committee on June 2, 2017. Dr. Steve Baule presented the information to about a dozen committee members.

1. Update on MCS
June 2, 2017
Delivered to the Muncie & Delaware County
Chamber of Commerce, Business Education
Partnership Committee

2. Knowledge is, in every
country, the surest basis
of public happiness.
George Washington, First Annual Message to Congress,
January 8, 1790

3. Muncie Central named as #58th best
HS in Indiana for 2017
421 Indiana High Schools were considered in the ranking process

4. Muncie Central Class of 2017 earns
more than $7,056,659.00 in scholarship
funds for 4 year schools
Cory Cooper, Class of 2017, was named a
National Merit Finalist. This was MCHS’s
first NMF in some time. He plans to attend
Purdue to study engineering
Class of 2015 earned $4,133,472
Class of 2016 earned $4,670,136

5. Some Staff Recognition
• DiLynn Phelps is to be honored
Saturday, June 3 by the Indy Black
Expo with an Excellence in Education
Award
• Drew Shermeta was honored with an
honorable mention for the BBF
Excellence in Teaching Award; he is
also the MCHS Teacher of the Year

6. Muncie Central
Recognized on May 31,
2017
• The Indiana FAFSA Completion Awards
recognize the top 100 outstanding Indiana
schools with at least 60% FAFSA completion for
the 2017-18 FAFSA year. It is with great
enthusiasm that we recognize Muncie Central as
an Indiana FAFSA Completion
Award recipient. Thank you for your many
contributions to the success of your 2017 high
school senior class’s FAFSA completion.

7. Major Goals in 2017
• Implement our community-based Strategic Plan
 Move towards a more personalized and digitally-rich instructional
program
 Improve the variety and rigor of our curriculum
 Create and strengthen the partnerships necessary to ensure our
students are ready to learn each day and families are able to be
supportive of learning
 Address our fiscal and facilities issues
 Better engage the public
 Begin to develop a coherent corporation-wide professional
development program
• Improve student achievement
• Ensure all students and staff are safe and secure

8. Student Discipline Issues
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Discipline Issues CPS Contacts Probation Referrals Arrests
Overall, MCS discipline
incidents were down over
21% last year & 43% over
the past two years
Juvenile Court referrals
were down 43% over the
last two years
Overall decrease each of
the last two years

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High School Discipline Issues
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Kindergarten Discipline
Issues
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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Middle School Discipline Issues
2016 – Discipline incidents down in every grade PK-8
2017 – Discipline incidents down in every grade 5-12

10. Food Service for Summer
• In partnership with Chartwells, our food
service provider:
• We plan to serve food from June 5 to
July 21 Breakfast and Lunch Daily
• Longfellow
• SMS
• South View
• Kennedy Library (Lunch only)
• MCS food service was in the black for
the first time for several years

11. Scope of MCS for 2018
• Serve children from age 3 to 22 and adults working
towards a HS diploma
• 5620 Traditional Students
747 FTE 2016
597.5 FTE 2017
528 FTE 2018
Administrators 40% reduction
Faculty 19% reduction
Non-certified Staff 43% reduction

12. Athletics
• Overall, we are going through a transition in
athletics and have just hired a number of new
head coaches:
• Scott Pethtel for Varsity Football
• Chandler Thompson for Varsity Boys Basketball
• Ron Howell for Varsity Girls Basketball
• JD Craft for Varsity Wrestling
• Randy Gardner for Varsity Girls Volleyball

13. Dual Credit
• The Early College Program being
conducted in partnership with Ivy
Tech will allow MCHS students to
graduate with a high school
diploma and an associate’s
degree.
• First Central graduates with an
Ivy Tech associate’s degree will
graduate in 2018. 38 students are
currently on track to receive an
AA.

14. MCS Kindergarten and First Grade
Retention DataContinuing a summer
school remediation
opportunity for K & 1
students who would
have otherwise been
retained
81% of those students
advanced to the next
grade
We are expanding to
include 2nd grade this
year 0
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60
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2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018
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Kindergarten First Grade

15. Status of SB 567
• MCS is still working on a deficit reduction plan
Working assumptions are $18M in cuts are necessary
MTA has rejected an offer to save $2M/yr by IU Health
• IEERB Appeal on Fact Finder’s decision 6/13
• Emergency Manager to be appointed by 6/30
• DUAB to hold hearing about the future status of MCS
by 12/1

16. Next Steps for Facilities
• Facilities Committee is working on reviewing
and repricing the deferred maintenance items
• Board will have to determine what they plan to
do about a one v. two middle school solution by
November
• Referendum is possible in May 2018
• Working to sell or rent Mitchell, Storer and
Sutton

17. Grants
• In 2016 staff brought in $1,071,576.09 in grant funding for
MCS
• 87 Faculty & Staff received
• 123 individual grants
• So far in 2017, we have exceeded the previous total,
reaching $1,084,484.56 and still have a few outstanding
applications.
• 65 Faculty & Staff received
• 80 individual grants

18. MCS with our community
partners will provide each child
an individualized, inclusive,
digitally rich education within
the scope of being full service
community schools.
Draft MCS Vision Statement

19. Some Emerging Partnerships
• Burris will be sending students to the MACC for the
first time in many years in 2017-2018
• David Owsley Museum of Art at BSU will be serving
every MCS 4th grader next year
• Purdue Gear-Up grant to provide more support for
middle school students to consider STEM careers
• Working with the YMCA and Boy & Girls Club to
provide before and after care “on site” at MCS
schools

20. Muncie Community Schools Education
Foundation
• Working to establish an education foundation as a
501(c)3 to support MCS programing and student
scholarship opportunities
• First organizational meeting in April 2017
• Beasley & Gilkison have offered to do the set up work pro-bono
 Mark Ervin – the lead on this project
• Currently drafting bylaws

21. Transparency
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1st Qtr 2013 1st Qtr 2015 1st Qtr 2016 1st Qtr 2017
Pages of Documents Provided as Part of Public
Packet prior to Board Meetings
Prior to 10/2015, no public agenda or documents were provided to the public for monthly work
sessions only for “regular meetings;” now all meetings are posted and agendas and packets provided.
Prior to 2015, PL 221 (School Improvement Plans) were not publically adopted by the Board. They
are currently reviewed and adopted annually at a public meeting.
Prior to 2015, the Board generally only received monthly financial statements for the General Fund
and not regularly for all funds. Generally, financial reports of other funds were not available prior to
Board meetings when presented. The Board (and the public) now receives a comprehensive monthly
statement showing all funds.

22. Thank you for your
time and support
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