Civil Municipal - April 2024

states,“Thanks to the community’s generosity, three schools will open between September 2025 and September 2027.” The buildings will include safety features like cameras, fencing, and vestibules.A security vestibule gives extra access control at the entrance by using interlocking doors, preventing both sets from being open concurrently. After becoming superintendent of the LSD, Shuldiner met with teachers, principals, and stakeholders to set targets. From this gathering emerged three primary objectives. Goal number one: Increase the 62.10% graduation rate, one of the state’s lowest. “Over two years, we raised that by more than 14 percentage points to 76.37%. That is the highest ever,” says Shuldiner. The objective is to meet 85% before the end of 2025. The dropout rate is at its lowest at 8.67%. Goal number two: Improve attendance rates. In one 241 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 5, ISSUE 04 LANSING SCHOOL DISTRICT