(Grand Forks, ND) The Grand Forks School Board is moving forward with budget and teacher cuts. The board discussed the plan last night that would mostly affect art, music, and world languages instruction at all grade levels. Other affected areas include athletics, special education, and supplies. Most of the budget reductions will be made as staff members resign or retire
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By Doug Barrett
The North Dakota Senate has approved the bill that funds K-12 schools.
That includes language on what school districts are to do with the increased state funding.
The Senate is proposing a one percent increase in per-pupil payments in each year of the upcoming biennium. This, as school districts will be receiving federal money due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But comes with strings attached.
Grand Forks Republican Senator Ray Holmberg chairs the Appropriations Committee, and also chaired the K-12 subcommittee. He says that subcommittee – which also included Bismarck Republican Senator Nicole Poolman and Senate Minority Leader Joan Heckaman of New Rockford – approved language that tells local districts 70 percent of the new state money has to be spent on teacher compensation. “In schools education takes place in the classroom and that’s where we want to focus North Dakota money.”
The $70.5 million school would replace West, Wilder and Winship elementary schools and Valley Middle School. Written By: Pamela D. Knudson | 8:08 pm, Apr. 7, 2021 ×
The Mark Sanford Education Center, headquarters of Grand Forks Public Schools. (Grand Forks Herald photo)
Members of a newly-assembled school district committee on Wednesday got their first glimpse of what a proposed K-8 school campus on the city’s north side could look like and how it would function.
The 22-member K-8 Campus Predesign Committee, consisting of parents, teachers, school administrators, former Facilities Task Force members and a School Board member, discussed the educational impact of having K-8 students and staff all at one location, as well as current public perceptions of the project.