Vesta Losen re-elected president of Keystone Academy School Board

Vesta Losen, one of the founders of Keystone Academy, was re-elected president of the Keystone Academy Board of Directors at its annual meeting May 12.
Susan Meland was elected vice-president, Connie Shull elected secretary, and Carol Manley re-elected treasurer.
The National Heritage Academy representative, now in flux, is the Freedom of Information Act officer, as well as the AHERA contact. The board’s legal counsel is CS3 which includes longtime board attorney LaRae Munk. Contact for Title VI, Title IX and Section 504 is the school principal.
The board suspended discussion on the 2016-17 initial budget proposal until a final budget is available to discuss. Any action on the proposed 2016-17 budget and the 2015-16 final amended budget was tabled.
An amendment was approved for the student handbook to comply with federal law, changing the name of the “Parent Involvement Policy” to the “Parent and Family Engagement Policy.”
Principal Keturah Godfrey reported that NHA is working on strengthening the Moral Focus program and Keystone is making the moral focus consistent throughout the building.
Godfrey also reported that Dean Katherine Hartsock gave birth to a son, Colin, and she will stay home until he’s in school. They will not refill her dean’s position and will restructure it into a three-dean system.
Godfrey said their third graders went to Lansing earlier in the year and now the fourth graders are going to Lansing. The seventh grade has a trip to Mackinac Island planned and the eighth graders are going to Washington, D.C.