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LPS families,
We hope you are enjoying your summer! We are sending a monthly reminder to LPS families throughout the summer. Please read below for important information and reminders.
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Are you looking for a career that makes a difference in the lives of children? Lincoln Public Schools is hosting another interview fair in July for those interested in applying for bus drivers, transportation paras, food service workers, food service manager trainees, head bakers, head cooks and custodian positions.
Friday, July 15
9am – 3pm at Culler Middle School
Open positions include bus drivers, transportation paras, food service workers, food service manager trainees, head bakers, head cooks and custodians.
For more information, go to lps.org/hr/fair.
LPS and the Food Bank of Lincoln work collaboratively to offer meals to children ages 0-18 free over the summer. This year, per federal guidelines all meals must be eaten on site and cannot be sent home with families. Meals are for children ages 0-18 years only. No adult meals or parent meals will be served. For additional information, please check our webpage or contact the school directly.
Registration for Athletics and Activities for the 2022-2023 school year is open! To register your student, please visit the LPS Athletics home page at https://home.lps.org/athletics/packet/ . The process is changing from previous years and will now be completed in ParentVUE. If you do not have a ParentVUE account currently, please contact the main office at the high school where your student is enrolled for assistance creating the account prior to attempting to register.
Parents of children turning five years of age before July 31, 2022 can go to lps.org and click on the red “Enroll Your Student” button. Here you will also find all the information necessary for registering, the required documents needed and answers to frequently asked questions.
Parents who do not have access to the online registration, or wish to register their child in person, should contact their attendance area elementary school as soon as possible.
Questions about kindergarten registration should also be directed to the child’s attendance area school.
Our preschool program is located in many of the elementary schools across the district. Children who are at least 3 years of age on or before July 31, 2022 and who have not yet turned five as of July 31, 2022, are eligible to apply.
At this time we are accepting 2022–2023 preschool applications and necessary documentation online, by email, fax or mail. You may also complete and submit an application and required documents by visiting our office, located at 300 S. 48th Street (enter door #2). Our office hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
For more information and to download the application, please visit our website: https://home.lps.org/earlychildhood/preschool-application/
Is your child looking for a job or other extended learning opportunity? Students can use their Chromebook or LPS Student Portal account to check out our electronic bulletin board by going to lps.org and typing in the keyword “JELO”. (Students must be logged in to their LPS Student Portal to view the board.)
Students in grades 6-12 will find information about a wide variety of opportunities available. This includes activities, camps, jobs and internships. We update the board every Wednesday afternoon.
Are you a business or organization wanting to share your opportunities with LPS students?
If so, please enter the information about your program/opportunity here: www.bit.ly/stujobslps.
Once you submit the information on the form, we will review it to ensure that it fits with our Board policies and regulations before we post it to the electronic bulletin board. Once an opportunity is posted, students in all middle and high schools are easily able to access the information. Please note: anyone outside of the LPS network or without LPS Portal access will not be able to access the eBulletin board.
If you are in crisis and need immediate assistance, these services are available any time of the day or night, any day of the week:
Additional community resources can be found at MyLink – a website (https://mylnk.app) and a mobile app (for Apple and Android – search MyLink). It can be downloaded in a wi-fi environment and then used when wi-fi is not available. Translations are provided in Arabic, Somali, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
The Lincoln Board of Education and ESU 18 will hold meetings on Tuesday, June 28, located in the Boardroom at Lincoln Public Schools District Office, 5905 O Street.
A special work session will begin at 4:30 p.m.
The Lincoln Board of Education Regular Meeting will begin at 6:00 p.m.
The ESU 18 Regular Meeting will begin immediately following the Lincoln Board of Education Regular Meeting.
Members of the public and media may access any of the meetings via live video streaming or by physically attending the meetings, which are subject to all national, state and local limitations on public gatherings associated with COVID-19. Overflow accommodations may need to be implemented to ensure the health and safety of all in attendance.
The agenda for all meetings can be found here: lps.org/board.
There are multiple ways to view the livestream of all meetings:
The Board believes public attendance and participation, when appropriate to the business at hand, is beneficial to the work of the Board and models the importance of civic engagement and civil discourse to the community’s children, but it cannot impede the Board from completing the business of the meeting.
In keeping with Board Policy 8420 and Neb Statute 84-1412(3), the Lincoln Board of Education has established these reasonable regulations to conduct Public Comment:
1. Persons speaking during Public Comment will be called forward individually by the Board Chair to the location identified for such purpose.
2. A time limit of three minutes will be allotted for any speaker unless prior to the beginning of the Public Comment agenda item, the chair sets a different reasonable time frame to be allotted for speakers in order to accommodate the number of persons who have submitted “Record of Appearance” cards. The time limit is per speaker, per meeting and may not be transferred or assigned to other speakers.
3. The chair may endeavor to organize public comment by what agenda items or other issues have been identified as topics by public speakers, adjust for the age of speakers, and/or split the Public Comment agenda item to be conducted in different positions within the Board’s Order of Business. At the discretion of the chair, the speaker may be allotted additional time. Board members may share, address or consider comments from the public during public comment, at the end of public comment or when related business is on the agenda.
4. In order to be called forward to address the Board during Public Comment, each person wishing to speak must obtain a “Record of Appearance” card from staff at the meeting in which they wish to speak. “Record of Appearance” cards are available beginning 30 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the meeting. Those wishing to speak must accurately complete the required sections of the card, and submit it to the appropriate staff member by 15 minutes after the start of the meeting.
5. Individuals will be called forward to speak by name, organization being represented, if applicable, and address. Each individual speaking to the Board will be required to identify himself or herself prior to giving public comment by stating their first and last name and, if applicable, any organization they represent.
6. In cases where more than one person wishes to speak on the same topic, their presentations to the Board may, at the discretion of the chair, be grouped together by topic.
7. If the number of people wishing to speak under the public comment portions of the agenda is large, the chair may rule that a public hearing be scheduled.
8. Persons speaking to the Board during public comment may make printed materials (paper no larger than 8.5 x 11 inches) available to the Board but may not use any other form of media. Public speakers are asked to provide 10 copies of any copies of printed materials presented to the Board.
If at any time persons appearing before the Board do not comply with these or any other Board requirements, it shall be the responsibility of the chair to declare that person or persons out of order and require a change in behavior, delay or recess the meeting, or refuse permission to continue to address the Board, and ultimately may require the person or persons to leave the premises of the Board meeting.
Lincoln Public Schools is the second largest public school district in Nebraska, located in the heart of the plains, renowned for its long-standing legacy of educational excellence and tradition of rigorous academic achievement. The school district is growing and thriving, serving over 42,000 students in more than 60 schools and programs.
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