- May 13, 2025
The Volusia County School Board recognized the Superintendent's Student Advisory Leadership Team at its recent meeting on Tuesday, April 22.
The team is composed of 28 students from 11 high schools, including Seabreeze and Mainland high schools. Through SALT, students provide input on school issues, topics and recommend agenda items based on needs as a way to include a student voice in the district's execution of its strategic plan. The program was launched in 2023.
"For the past two years, SALT brought many, many great agenda items up — also provided solutions to some of those items and those topics that were presented to us," Superintendent Carmen Balgobin said.
The students meet monthly with district personnel and discuss topics and projects such as transportation for athletics and school clubs, safety and security, technology, and random searches. They also focused on initiatives to address chronic absenteeism, mental health and school cleanliness.
Mainland High School students Kajuan Curry, Autumn Demarest and Joshua Stubbs, along with Seabreeze High School students Sophia Lin and Rain Schneider were among the students in SALT.
