Some rural school districts struggling to find board trustees
Devin Bodkin, IdahoEdNews.org
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BOISE Lisa Shenton has spent years watching school board elections play out in the Clark County School District 161.
If you can call them that.
Often, no one runs, so trustees are left searching for people to apply. “Basically, it turns into begging,” said Shenton, a former trustee now working as the board’s clerk.
A lack of candidates and applicants has been a longtime issue for the rural East Idaho district of some 120 students, said Shenton.
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Proposed plans for the Early Head Start center to be located on West Broad Street. (Clarke County School District rendering)
Construction crews is set to begin to build an early learning center at Athens, Ga. s West Broad Street school.
The Clarke County School District met with members of the community March 30 to get input on the building plans for the property, which will house an Early Head Start program, designed to serve children from eight weeks to three years old in families who are either at or below the poverty line.
An Early Head Start Expansion Grant was approved for the Athens school system, which will award it $4.4 million in the first 18 months of the grant period. The award will fund salaries and other costs for the operation of the program. With the monies, the program will also be able to add 112 new slots for students who qualify.
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