LA Board Nixes Online School

Langford Area School District’s Board of Directors met last week for their regular February meeting. The board voted to remove Premier Online Academy from the school’s structure for the next school year. Premier was a free online K-12 school run through the LA district that was started this past fall with Ryan Bruns, former LA superintendent, as the online academy’s superintendent as well.

According to Board President Jennifer Gustafson, “With Premier being brought to us from Mr. Bruns, the board decided now that he is not active in the district, we did not feel that they should utilize existing staff nor add staff for the purposes of continuing the program at this time.” Bruns was suspended from his superintendent duties earlier this month.

In other board business, they heard updates on their capital outlay plans including playground plans, the purchase of welding equipment for their classes and the finalization of the purchase of their activity bus. The air-conditioning project is also on tap to begin installation this summer as well.

Gustafson, Bill Jensen and Cory Cole were appointed to the negotiations team for this year. Various policies were approved. As noted in last week’s Journal, Shad Storley was appointed as interim superintendent as well as approved for a contract for that position next school year.

The next board meeting will be Monday, March 13 at 6 p.m.