Message concerning FlashAlert
Many Midlothian parents and staff are subscribed to receive FlashAlert emergency emails and/or text messages.  Once a year, they must confirm that they wish to continue receiving these messages.

If you wish to continue and have not already done so, please go to www.flashalert.net/login.html and enter your primary email address and password. Check that all your addresses are correct and then select "Click here to send test messages and complete the registration process" to update. If you do not update your account, it will be deleted on September 15.

Please make sure that your cell phone text addresses are formatted correctly with 10 digits (AT&T example: 5035551212@txt.att.net). Or, consider a new, even faster option: Twitter.

FlashAlert now can distribute messages through Twitter. Twitter's relationship with the cell companies mean that our messages go through the cell companies' faster "back door," so we encourage you to use Twitter instead of registering your cell phone in the FlashAlert system. You can register for Twitter by cicking on the blue Twitter logo next to Midlothian's name in your FlashAlert account.

Again, to continue receiving FlashAlerts, please log in to your account and launch a test message by September 15, 2009.

School Board approves 2% pay raise for 2009-2010
Click to view new Pay Ranges for the 2009-2010 school year.

The Midlothian ISD Board of Trustees has approved a pay raise for the 2009-10 school year. For certified teachers, the raise amount for the 2009-10 school year is 2% of the 2008-09 Step 13 (mid-point of the teacher pay scale) resulting in a minimum raise of $925.00. The raise amount for all other pay families (Manual Trades, Clerical/Paraprofessional, & Administrative/Professional) will equal 2% of the 2008-09 mid-point for each pay grade.

Educators: Keep those receipts for your I.R.S. deduction
The Internal Revenue Service is reminding educators to save their receipts for purchases of books and other classroom supplies. They will be able to deduct up to $250 of such expenses again this year, following recently-enacted legislation. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 reinstated the educator expense deduction, which had expired at the end of last year. The deduction has been reinstated for tax years 2008 and 2009. Expenses incurred any time during 2008 may qualify for the deduction, not just those since the Act was signed on October 3. The deduction is available to eligible educators in public or private elementary or secondary schools. To be eligible, a person must work at least 900 hours during a school year as a teacher, instructor, counselor, principal or aide. An educator may subtract up to $250 of qualified out-of-pocket expenses when figuring adjusted gross income. This deduction is available whether or not the taxpayer itemizes deductions on Schedule A. Qualified expenses are non-reimbursed expenses paid or incurred for books, supplies, computer equipment including related software and services, other equipment, and supplementary materials that are used in the classroom.

MISD conveniently has a print shop with two duplicators and two copiers designed to produce large amounts of print jobs. The print shop stores different colors of paper: light blue, light pink, yellow, light green, and goldenrod. All other color of paper, transparencies and card stock must be provided by the sender. We have two different sizes of white paper: 8½X11 and 8½X14. The district encourages teachers and staff to submit print jobs that exceed 20 or pages per master to the print shop.

Intra-district mail
Cover sheets are available at each campus or you can download the coversheet  here. Attach cover sheet and send master copy to print shop.

Email attachment of master copy
Please make sure the cover sheet (see above PDF link) information is provided in the email section.

The center is open to all district employees, and school-aged parents of the district. It is currently licensed by the state of Texas for 125 children, from 6 weeks of age to 5 years. We are recognized as a four-star facility by the Child Care Services division of the Texas Workforce Commission.

Lunch may be brought from home, or purchased from the J.R. Irvin cafeteria at $2.10. We observe the same calendar as the district. We pro-rate Summer Break, Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Breaks (no charge for the times we are closed).

To register your child,  download this form and return to the Laura Jenkins Development Center. Please also view the Supply List.

The daycare is located inside the Laura Jenkins Development Center, 315 East Ave. E, Midlothian, TX 76065, (972) 775-8955 with operating hours 7am to 4:30pm. For further details or to ask questions, please contact Daycare Director Glenda Dooley.