中文学校一周简讯 10/23

中文学校的家长们,你们好!

不知不觉学期已经快过半。学校的各项工作都进入正常轨道。

上个周末在孙旭峰主席的召集下,召开了本学年第一次董事会,主要是商议本学年的财政预算。根据十月九日的统计,语言班注册人数一共364名,比去年略微下降。本学年的学费收入约为11.6万美元,比去年略微上升,盖因为注册文化兴趣课的人数增加。学校开支主要分为三大块:老师以及校务人员的工资和补贴为64%,学校的固定开支(租金,保险,财务审计等)为22%,其他各种项目(故事会,期末庆祝,老师培训等等)为14%。今年的收入和去年大致持平,开支也大致相同。财政预算得到全体董事会会员赞同,全票通过。如果你想知道预算细节或有其他问题,请联系我或孙旭峰主席。我想重点指出我们教师的工资在过去五年内没有涨过一分钱。正是她们无私的奉献,才能让学校以如此低的成本维持运转。在这里我向所有的老师表示衷心的感谢。

1.      讲故事比赛
一年一度的大家讲故事比赛定于11月8日在华社隆重召开。讲故事比赛一年比一年受欢迎,参赛学生不断增加。故事内容和表演形式也花样纷呈。具体的细节请看附件。如果你有什么建议或问题,请联系家长会主席徐健(jxuonline@gmail.com)。

2.      毕业以及奖学金
请毕业班的同学开始着手准备申请奖学金程序。今年学校从不多的项目基金里拨出1000元用于奖励在中文学校的优秀毕业生,以表彰他们多年在中文学校的学习,对社区的贡献,以及每个人所取得的优异成绩。申请程序可以在学校网站下载(http://www.albanychineseschool.org/Schoolhandbook/2015-2016/CS_Scholarship_2015-2016.pdf

3.      第十七届世界华人学生作文大赛
第十七届世界华人学生作文大赛截稿日为12月31日, 所有参赛习作必须在12月6日前由各班老师统一交给参赛组织者何沈文老师。根据以往经验,各位任课老师可以有针对性的利用平时的作业鼓励学生写作发挥,聚沙成塔。希望年底我们有一大批高质量的文章参赛。

本期简讯到此。谢谢大家关注,星期天见!

陈峰

中文学校校长2014-2016

Dear Chinese School Families,

We are almost half way through this semester now. I hope most of new families have gotten familiar with the school routines. The school council has conducted its first meeting last Sunday with focus on school budget and registration update. We have also discussed a few new initiatives how to make school update or policy changes more accessible to the parents. You will be hearing from me or council chair more on this regard once we finalize the action plan. Before I talk about other school events, let me provide you an update on school budget first.

Based on enrollment as of Oct. 9th, the procured tuition revenue is about $116K.  We have 364 students enrolled in language classes, slightly lower than that of last year. But tuition revenue is a bit higher because more students registered for the culture classes. Based on the total tuition revenue and projected other incomes, the 2015-16 school budget covers a total expense of $113K, including teachers and staff compensation (64%), fixed operational cost (22%) and program cost (14%). The cost structure is almost same as last year. The budget has been unanimously approved by the council members. Here I want to highlight that the compensation rate for teachers has been flat for the past five years without a penny increase. We really owe the balanced budget to our teachers. I want to thank each one of the teachers for your spirit of volunteering, dedication, and continuous service to the Chinese community.

There are a few other things that may need your attention for students of different grades.

1.      Chinese Story Telling Contest at CCC
The annual Chinese Story Telling Contest will be held on Sunday, November 8th, at the CCC building (1:00PM – 4:00PM).
Every year we have a lot of participation, various programs and stories. It is a great platform for your kids to showcase their staging performance and win from a large pool of prizes. Please see attached flyer for more details and contact PTA Chair Jian Xu (jxuonline@gmail.com).

2.      Scholarship and graduation
For those of you who plan to graduate in the spring of 2016, this is the time to apply for Chinese School scholarship. Application procedures can be found in 2015 handbook or can be downloaded at http://www.albanychineseschool.org/Schoolhandbook/2015-2016/CS_Scholarship_2015-2016.pdf.
There is total $1000 allocated for the scholarship fund this year. It is meant to recognize outstanding graduate students of Chinese School for their continuous effort in Chinese language learning, participation in Chinese school, contribution to Chinese community, and academia achievement.

3.      Composition competition
The 17th International Chinese Essay contest has been announced in July with details attached. The deadline is Dec. 6h to submit compositions to Teacher Shenwen He. Every language teacher is encouraged to utilize their weekly writing assignment and have their students participate in this competition. We usually see parent involvement is helpful and promoting a good outcome.

See you this weekend.

Sincerely,
Feng Chen
Principal, Chinese School 2014-2016

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