The Partnership Plan for Stillwater Area Public Schools

“The finance committee reviews the form 990 and associated documents and distributes its recommendations and form 990 to the full board of directors for approval prior to filing.”

“Each year, board members review their individual board contract and conflict of interest policy. Both documents are signed and filed. If there is a conflict (whether personal or business), board members are required to abstain from voting on the issue.”

“The board evaluates information about the executive director's salary for similar sized organizations in the twin cities area. A search committee solicits and evaluates candidates' resumes. The search committee interviews candidates and makes recommendation to the full board, which makes an offer to the top candidate.”

“The board evaluates information about the executive director's salary for similar sized organizations in the twin cities area. A search committee solicits and evaluates candidates' resumes. The search committee interviews candidates and makes recommendation to the full board, which makes an offer to the top candidate.”

“These documents are available upon request.”

“To connect the community and its resources to stillwater area public schools to support exceptional learning experiences for all students. We accomplish this by providing enhanced programs and innovative activities to benefit students and teachers.”

“Volunteers utilized to carry on the operations of the organization.”

“The partnership plan's mission is to connect the community and its resources to stillwater area public schools to support exceptional learning experiences for all students. We accomplish this by providing enhanced programs and innovative activities to benefit students and teachers. We have three primary ways to distribute funds for this purpose. 1. Classroom grants - awarded to teachers with great ideas to make learning more meaningful and engaging for students. During the 2023-24 school year, the partnership plan allocated 27 classroom grants and 3 sponsorships totaling 38,904. 2. Big impact grants - these are on-going programs affecting large numbers of students. These can be in a specific grade and/or across an entire school or multiple schools. The partnership plan funded 14 of these types of projects over the 2023-24 school year totaling 145,980. These projects included all of our third year of grants towards the mental health initiative, stem projects, arts and theater projects, our continued support of the pathways program and more. 3. Miscellaneous- our work doesn't stop with the typical grant. We provide a small grant, that we call a new teacher grant, to every teacher who is new to our district to help them start up their classroom. In the 2023-24 school year, we awarded a total of 8,900 to 63 new teachers. We provided 5 scholarships in the 2023-24 school year: two teachers received a harcey walmar scholarship for continuing education (1,000) and we also awarded 6,000 in scholarships to graduating seniors. Finally, we honored 9 teachers and staff with a 1,000 grant each, to give to the school of their choice within the district as recognition of their excellent service to the school district through partnership awards (9,000). The partnership plan continues to be an effective and efficient organization, earning the guidestar silver seal of transparency again for 2024. There are three part-time staff, equaling 1.5 fte.”

“Donated service expenses -7,595”