SCHOOL BOARD ACTION

Additional school board action at Monday night's meeting.

-The board gave nearly four acres to the city of Cape Girardeau for the extension of Sprigg Street north to Lexington Avenue. In return for the property, which the city offered to purchase for $30,000 a year ago, the school won't have to pay $58,000 for its share of the cost for the street improvement. The school's right-of-way was the final piece of property needed for the Sprigg Street project.

-Representatives of the U.S. Department of Education's office of civil rights will visit Cape Girardeau schools April 24 through 26 to see if there is merit to a complaint filed against the schools. In February, the local NAACP filed a complaint about negative treatment of minorities and other students at Cape Central High School and the junior high.

-The board sold the old Kage School building to Dr. Keith Deimund for $20,110. The school was established in 1854. Deimund plans to establish a trust to help preserve the building.

-Dr. Lanny Barnes, coordinator of Cape Girardeau's A-Plus Schools program and former junior high school principal, resigned. He has been with the school system more than 30 years.

-Each elementary school will compile an honor roll that will be made available to the media. A committee will consider specific criteria to be applied district-wide.

-Summer school is being planned for elementary, junior high and high school students.