LaBrae Local School District

LaBrae Local Schools is excited to announce that the district will be using a new parent app, Stopfinder, for the upcoming school year. Stopfinder is the easy-to-use, all-in-one app that allows you to have the most accurate information about your student’s bus schedule at anytime from anywhere. In addition to displaying your student’s transportation information, Stopfinder includes a private messaging feature that will allow you to communicate directly with the LaBrae Transportation Department. You can also create GeoAlerts for your student, which will notify you when the bus has arrived or departed from any location on your student’s route, including their assigned bus stop and school. GeoAlert Alert Zones can be created for individual students allowing you to customize the Alert Zone based on their bus route.  Parents can even share their child's busing information with relatives and trusted friends.

The email address that is currently on file with the district will be used for Stopfinder setup. Please contact the your child's school office to make a change to your primary email address prior to August 18, 2023.

Stopfinder can be downloaded for free from the App Store or Google Play. Stopfinder will require an invite and registration through the district prior to accessing your student’s transportation schedule. Please watch for a Stopfinder invitation, which will be emailed to your primary email address.  LaBrae will send out the personalized invitation no later than Friday, August 25, 2023.

Please contact Mrs. Carole Misinay, LaBrae Transportation Supervisor, at 330.989.0231 with any questions.

In the interim, please watch this brief video via the following link to learn more about this exciting addition to LaBrae Transportation:  Stopfinder Overview.

The Free/Reduced Meal Application for the 23-24 school year is now available and can be completed online at payschoolscentral.com. If you do not have a PaySchools account, information for creating one can be found under the Quick Links tab in Cafeteria Accounts/Fee Payments. If you submitted an application for your child in the 2022-2023 SY that status will be carried over for the first 30 days of school. To determine if your child is eligible for free/reduced meals a completed application must be received by October 11, 2023. If you do not submit a new application that is approved by the school or you have not been notified that your child is eligible for free/reduced meals, your child will be charged the full price for meals. If you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact Cafeteria Supervisor, Sally Deehr at sally [dot] deehrlabrae [dot] school.

Parents,

In preparation for the upcoming school year the clinic needs a few things in order to help keep students safe at school.

• Please review/complete FinalForms for each of your students prior to the first day of school
• Provide current action plans for students with asthma, seizures, or anaphylaxis as well as needed rescue medications. These need to be in the clinic before school starts. If your student carries their inhaler etc on them during the school day we still need the action plan on file in the clinic.
• If your child has a food allergy make the cafeteria aware. If substitutions are required a doctor’s order is needed if not already on file.  Contact sally [dot] deehrlabrae [dot] school for cafeteria issues.
• Medications that are required to be given daily in school require a written doctor’s order. An adult must bring the medication to school.  Do not send medications to school with students.
• Generic action plans and medication orders are available at the Nurse’s Notes & Forms page.
• Finally, students in grade 7 need to show proof of a Tdap & meningitis shot, Students in grade 12 must show proof of a meningitis booster shot or, if they were over 16 when the first shot was given, the date of the first meningitis shot. Any K student who was not up to date at the time of registration must provide a current shot record.  All students newly enrolled in the district, regardless of grade level, need an up to date shot record on file also.  Immunization records are due by September 30.

Elizabeth Sutliff MSN, APRN, FNP-C
School Nurse
liz [dot] sutlifflabrae [dot] school

Yard signs for display honoring LaBrae seniors are now available for sale at the Board of Education Office between the hours of 8:00 to 3:00.  Signs are $10.  These are a perfect way to publicly acknowledge your graduating senior.  Also, if your child is a senior next year, buying your sign now allows you to display it during the coming school year.  {Signs are paid for by the LaBrae Levy Committee; Karen Ancell, Treasurer}

Students now have access to electronic books and audiobooks from NEOMIN and the Warren-Trumbull Public Library through SORA.  No library card is required.  Students simply use their LaBrae Google log-in and go to Gmail.  Locate the SORA app in the Google “Waffle” at the top right and then check out e-books from the “NEOMIN NE Ohio Management Information Network” library—or add the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library by selecting the menu (3 horizontal lines) in the upper right corner of the screen and adding that library.  Electronic materials may now be checked out.  Happy reading!!!

This year LaBrae is foregoing the printing and mailing of our community newsletter in an effort to reduce expenses.  Please access the newsletter as a PDF below.  Should you have any questions, you are encouraged to contact the Superintendent's Office.

As we prepare for the coming school year, parents need to keep the following information in mind regarding immunization requirements for school attendance.

• Students entering grades K, 7, & 12, as well as students in any other grade who are newly enrolled at LaBrae, have immunization requirements.
• We do not know yet what school will look like in the fall but we must continue to prepare.
• Students entering 7^th grade must show proof of a Tdap & Meningitis vaccination.
• Students entering 12^th grade must show proof of a second Meningitis vaccine. * If the student is older than 16 & has not had the first Menigitis vaccine they will only need one. Please discuss your child’s vaccination status with his/her healthcare provider.
• Shot records are due in the clinic by September 30, 2024.
• Shot records may be mailed to school, faxed to 330-898-7808 ( grades 3-12), or 330- 898-1448 (grades K-2), or emailed to Mrs. Sutliff, the school nurse, at liz [dot] sutlifflabrae [dot] school

Parents, please be aware there are immunization requirements for students entering 7th and 12th grades.  Please see the details in the PDF below.  Immunization records for ALL new students and students entering 7th and 12th grades are due by September 30, 2024.  If you have questions, please email liz [dot] sutlifflabrae [dot] school (Mrs Sutliff).  Make your appointments early to avoid the rush at the start of school.  Thank you.