To MCPS officials: Our students need Prescott School - Your facility study needs to include it in district plans

Missoulians need Prescott School to remain a public school in the Rattlesnake Valley.

As predicted by a economist in Missoula who produced a demographic report for the district, our elementary school population has increased and will continue to increase in the next few years. See the link to the report above.

In the summer of 2012 the district built a modular on the playground of Rattlesnake School as the school was at capacity.  The school had been using about 11 para-educators for a while due to the increase in class sizes. (A para-educator is needed in a classroom along with the main teacher if the class size is over a certain number of children due to state standards.)

The cost of the modular was about $250,000.

Why didn't the district consider re-opening Prescott School?

Prescott School Missoula is of the belief that the district, under Chairwoman Toni Rehbein, wished to continue helping out Missoula International School.  Remember that Rehbein was the past president of MIS and also a vice president shortly before being elected to the school board.

Disloyalty, mismanagement, and corruption, as brought forth in the posts on this blog, explain some of what is going on with the closure and lease of Prescott School.  Remember, professionals within our community are on the record stating that this lease has cost the district hundreds of thousands of dollars PER YEAR, thus, overall this lease is costing the district millions of dollars.

Please contact the school board members and let them know you wish to keep Prescott School in the public school system for not only the Rattlesnake children but for all Missoulians - crowding conditions due to sending our students to other schools - effects everyone. 

Our children DESERVE to be able to attend a neighborhood school - a school which many public school children in the Rattlesnake Valley have attended for over a century.


**Michael Beers
P.O. Box 5195

Missoula, MT   50806

Voice Mail – 728-2400 Ext. 4906

Home Phone - 406-728-1630

Email – mbeers@mcps.k12.mt.us

Term Expires – Year 2016

**Rose Dickson
1852 S. 10^th Street W.
Missoula, Montana 59801

Voice Mail - 728-2400 Ext. 4901

Home Phone – 406-214-9467

Email – rdickson@mcps.k12.mt.us

Term Expires Year 2014

 

*Debbie Dupree (represents K-8 Seeley Lake,
Swan Valley, Clinton, Potomac, and Sunset districts)

P.O. Box 88

Seeley Lake, MT   59868

Voice Mail: 728-2400 Ext. 4908

Home Phone - 406-677-3869

Email – ddupree@mcps.k12.mt.us

Term Expires Year 2014

 

*Marcia Holland (represents Hellgate K-8 School District)

2616 Wedgewood Ct.

Missoula, MT  59808

Voice Mail – 728-2400 Ext. 4909

Home Phone - 406-543-6598

Email – mholland@mcps.k12.mt.us

erm Expires Year 2015

 

**Joseph Knapp

100 Broadview Place

Missoula, MT   59803

Voice Mail – 728-2400 Ext. 4903

Home Phone – 406-542-3145

Email – jknapp@mcps.k12.mt.us

Term Expires – Year 2015

**Diane Lorenzen

3860 Fox Farm Road

Missoula, MT  58902

Voice Mail – 728-2400 Ext. 4900

Home Phone 406-549-3995

Email – dlorenzen@mcps.k12.mt.us

Term Expires – Year 2016

 

*James Sadler (represents Target Range and Bonner

K-8 districts)

1220 Clements Road

Missoula, MT  59804

Voice Mail – 728-2400 Ext. 4910

Home Phone – 406-728-4743

Email – jimsadler@mcps.k12.mt.us

Term Expires Year 2015

 

**Michael Smith

112 Rolling Green Place

Missoula, MT   59803

Voice Mail – 728-2400 Ext. 4902

Home Phone – 721-0313

Email – mjsmith@mcps.k12.mt.us

Term Expires Year 2015

 

**Julie Tompkins

417 Woodford

Missoula, MT   59801

Voice Mail – 728-2400 Ext. 4907

Home Phone – 406-241-5396

Email – jtompkins@mcps.k12.mt.us

Term Expires Year 2016

 

*Ann Wake (represents Lolo, Woodman,

and DeSmet K-8 districts)

12043 Pleasant Meadows

Lolo, MT  59847

Voice Mail 728-2400 Ext. 4904

Home Phone – 406- 552- 8063

Email – awake@mcps.k12.mt.us

Term Expires Year 2016

 

**Shelley Wills

3032 Queen Street

Missoula, MT   59801

Voice Mail – 728-2400 Ext. 4905

Home Phone – 406-543-3646

Email – swills@mcps.k12.mt.us   Term Expires – Year 2014

Contact Trustees - (psm cut and pasted the following information and typed out the above trustee info).  If there is a problem contacting any of the trustee perhaps psm made an error. One can check on the district website for the addresses also at www. mcpsmt.org.

The Board of Trustees accepts public comment from students, staff, parents and community members through a variety of avenues. Options include:

Send written comment to Board of Trustees, Administration Building, 215 S. Sixth West, Missoula, Mt. 59801. Comments received will be provided to trustees at their next regular monthly meeting (second Tuesday of the month), or any appropriate meeting that is scheduled sooner.

Email written comment to individual trustees (see email links above).

E-mail written comment to publiccomment@mcps.k12.mt.us. Comments should be addressed to trustees and received by the preceding Wednesday, 4:30 p.m., prior to the Board's regular monthly meeting held on the second Tuesday of the month. Only comments received by this deadline will be included in the regular monthly meeting packet (which is also made available to the public).

Leave a verbal comment to individual trustees on their "voice mail" (see individual voice mail telephone extensions below). * Trustees that sit only on High School Board **Trustees that sit on both Elementary and High School Boards

updated on June 22, 2013, July 20, 2013