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The Washoe County School District and CannonDesign are hosting conversations about possible changes for schools in the North Valleys and downtown Sparks areas.
Update 10:30 p.m.: The Washoe County School District made fewer cuts to programs for gifted programs than was first proposed earlier this year.
The school board voted to keep three school-within-a-school programs for children identified as gifted. Programs will remain at Caughlin Ranch, Roy Gomm and Hunsberger elementary schools through the next school year. The district had first proposed reducing the program to just one school.
The school board also voted to direct staff to come up with options for a regional approach to locations for the 2022-23 school year.
The school board also voted to unanimously keep four gifted programs at middle schools after proposing to reduce the locations to three. Programs at Pine, Sky Ranch and Swope will remain and the district will develop a pilot program for gifted students at Clayton Middle School.
School Board President Angie Taylor said it is not as easy “as flipping a switch now that more students are allowed in classrooms and on school buses. It s transportation. It s nutrition services. It s allocations. It’s 75 percent max in each classroom, and getting students in. It s substitutes. It s all of that, Taylor said about the difficulty in changing school models with three months left in the school year.
Taylor said while the district has rolled out plans for how athletics will work, staff will have more information about how academics could change under a loosening of restrictions.
At last month s school board meeting, trustees did ask district staff to work toward doing as much as possible for seniors, including looking at options to have them back in classrooms five days a week.