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KinderCare program out
Staff Writer CROSBY - There will be no KinderCare program in the Crosby-Ironton School District next school year.
The Crosby-Ironton School Board agreed Monday to discontinue the program as part of its already approved budget reductions of about $750,000 for the 2008-09 school year.
KinderCare is a program in which kindergarten students have a place to go on the days they don't have school. The program elimination means the reduction of one half-time elementary teacher.
The board also agreed to eliminate the overload health careers program.
The school board approved $750,000 in reductions at its March meeting, which include eliminating elementary and high school band and choir, Knowledge Bowl, yearbook and prom, which will now take place after school.
The budget reductions include:
¥ Three full-time-equivalent elementary teachers.
¥ A full-time elementary social worker.
¥ Restructuring of the Range Area Alternative Program to operate outside of the regular school day for 3.5 hours, from 3:30-7 p.m.
¥ Reducing the technology budget.
¥ Discontinuing the community satisfaction survey.
¥ Reducing a nurse assistant position by .25 FTE.
¥ Reducing extracurricular funding by $250,000.
¥ Reducing textbook purchases by $90,000.
¥ Reducing supply budgets by $45,000.
¥ Reducing the Schedule C teacher contract by $30,000. All Schedule C courses, like elementary band and choir, high school band and choir, Knowledge Bowl, Eastertide, yearbook and prom, would have to take place outside of the school day. Funds would need to be raised for these programs.
¥ Reducing elective teachers, partial or full, by $60,000.
Jennifer Stockinger can be reached at jennifer.stockinger@brainerddispatch.com or 855-5851.
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