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Payson school board adopts budget
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School board makes plans to spend $4 3 million windfall
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The Payson School Board will consider shifting the district to a four-day school week next year.
The move comes in response to a parent and staff survey showing broad support for a four-day school week â with perhaps half an hour of class time added to four days and no class at all on Friday.
The district has been operating with what amounts to a four-day class week off and on all year â both when in distance learning mode and when back to in-person classes. But that schedule has devoted Friday to âreteachingâ and one-on-one intervention to help struggling students. The proposed four-day schedule would not offer such interventions on Fridays â but could open campus to many extra-curricular activities.
A skeptical Payson school board listened to a heartfelt plea to restore district support for international travel by students by allowing donors to claim Credit for Kids tax credits.
Teachers Ginger Liddell and Marsha Fitzhugh implored the school board to help kids raise money for school-sponsored overseas trips by making donations eligible for the stateâs Credit for Kids (CFK) tax credit.
âSo many of our students have never been to another country, itâs an opportunity they wonât have any other way,â said Liddell. âIt is life changing.â
The board listened to a half-hour pitch for foreign travel, but wonât vote on the proposal until its next meeting.
A high cost for plant operations.
High costs for transportation.
And about 14% more students per teacher.
But thereâs less to the report than meets the eye, PUSD finance director Kathie Manning explained to the school board last week.
Well, except for the high student-teacher ratio. Paysonâs got 21 students per teacher on the payroll â compared to a state average of 18 and an average in similar-sized districts of 19.
Oh, yeah â and the low graduation rate â a measly 68%.
The report showed the district in 2020 had an enrollment of 2,312 â a 2% increase in the past five years. The pandemic wiped out that increase and brought the enrollment below 2,000, but those numbers will show up on the next auditor generalâs report. In the meantime, the 2020 figures showed that 16% of Payson students were in special education classes, 2% did not speak English at home, the poverty rate was 26% and 51% qualified for free and reduced lunches based on federal cr
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