Consolidation. Pay-to-Play. Enrollment Fees. All solutions offered by a group of parents in the Marmaton Valley school district as educators try to avoid classroom cuts. USD 256 board members sat down with 60 patrons for advice at a meeting this week. In the past year the district has lost 278-thousand dollars in state aid, and officials are worried about more. It might men the loss of wood shop, art and music, might have to be abandoned. Staff cuts and revised sports programs are on the table. As with most school districts, salaries are the bulk of expenses -- 80 percent in Marmaton valley's case.
The parent proposal for consolidation would not be a formal consolidation but a joining of the administrative team to oversee schools in Uniontown, Moran and Colony. That idea was defered to future talks...it's a long process. Pay-to-play and enrollment fees would raise less than 20-percent of a single teacher's annual salary. But even the presentation of that idea, school officials said, showed the level of community support the schools enjoy.
The parent proposal for consolidation would not be a formal consolidation but a joining of the administrative team to oversee schools in Uniontown, Moran and Colony. That idea was defered to future talks...it's a long process. Pay-to-play and enrollment fees would raise less than 20-percent of a single teacher's annual salary. But even the presentation of that idea, school officials said, showed the level of community support the schools enjoy.
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