Technology

Welcome back from the Business Office! We hope you have enjoyed your summer break and are excited to start the new school year with you. The goal of the Business Office is to provide the highest level of support and service to District Employees. Please contact our department if you have any questions or suggestions on how we can better assist you.

Benefits Open Enrollment is open from July 10th – August 17th. This is a mandatory enrollment for all employees. The benefits booklet is available on the district website as well as HERE. You can make an appointment for enrollment assistance at https://laporteisd.timetap.com/.

This upcoming school year parents will have the ability to pay for all fees at www.myschoolbucks.com. This is the same website parents use to add funds to their student’s meal account. Our goal is to eliminate cash handling at the campus level and allow Teachers and Office Staff to focus on the students and make school payments easier for parents.

Please remember to turn in approved Absence from Duty forms to the Payroll Department within a week of your leave. This is particularly important as your leave balances need to be updated in a timely manner so that they are accurate in the Employee Access Center as well as to ensure you will not overuse your leave and be docked time. We are working on a project that will automate leave requests so that it will no longer be a manual, paper driven process. Our goal is to roll-out the new leave request process in the next few months.

The Employee Access Center is located HERE. On this site, you can review your payroll checks, salary amount, W2 tax forms and your leave balances. This is an informative site that is available for all employees. Please contact Human Resources if you have a question about your salary and Payroll with any questions about your paychecks or leave balances.

Safety

The district continues to put safety as the number one priority in LPISD. This year you will see the enhanced security measures from perimeter fencing, cameras, to updated control access.

Over the summer each campuses had security resistant film installed at each entry point. Additionally, every phone is the district now has silent panic capability. Staff members can initiate a response with a click of a button. This system is connected directly to our school resources officers and the local police department.

Finally, the district will have an SRO on each campus this Fall. We are excited to continue to create a safe environment for our LP family.