The Community Schools of Frankfort Board of Education approved the second new course for the 2023-24 school year Tuesday night.
“Over the past two months, we’ve added two additional courses — one is a pathway course and the other is an elective within the language arts graduation requirement,” said Superintendent Dr. Matt Rhoda.
Film Literature was the course added Tuesday night and are recommended for juniors and seniors. The previous course added was Civil Engineering.
The board also approved an interim virtual (chief financial officer) Tuesday night by hiring Brandon Penrod to help fill in for the current CFO Leslie Michael, who is February 3 after 33 years within the district.
“I was at a Superintendent Study Council and I met with (Western Superintendent) Mark Dubois,” said Rhoda. “I mentioned to him that our CFO was retiring and I was trying to come up with a good game plan. He mentioned Brandon Penrod, who was a Virtual CFO for them at Western who did their whole budget.”
Penrod will begin February 6 and might go until June. Rhoda said they have one applicant for Michael’s position and are hoping for more.
This past summer, the Community Schools of Frankfort elected to redo all the parking lots at all schools in town. As it turned out, that project turned out to be the tops in the state out of 384 applicants.
“We received the award for the category of governmental construction for Milestone, Community Schools of Frankfort and the designer KJG,” said Rhoda. “So, we got the Indiana Quality Pavement Award.”