Wednesday, February 6, 2013

We’re not alone.

          As I said in my letters directly to the board members, and in the ones I put in the Echo – we are not alone in facing budget shortfalls! However, I spoke to the superintendents of both Central and Starmont and both of them said that while Whole Grade Sharing is an option for them, their boards have decided against it at this point and instead decided to pursue other options. On the KCTN website, we find the following news about how Central plans to handle the situation. Compare it to our approach of shutting our high school down and condemning our school to closure.


                                                                                                            -Eric
 Central Board
By: KCTN News
 Feb 6th, 2013 
The Central School Board Tuesday considered options to balance the school district budget by June 30, 2015. Board members elected to go to single section classrooms in grades 4-7 for the 2013-2014 school year and to start multi-age classrooms for K-5 in the 2014-2015 school year.
Implementing those measures will reduce one middle school and two elementary positions, saving approximately $200,000. There are 471 students currently enrolled at the school.


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