Supporters urge Portland councilors to support full school budget proposal
The school budget hearing comes after the council s Finance Committee voted last week to require the Portland Board of Public Education to reduce its proposed $5.3 million increase by $1.5 million.
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Dozens of Portland school officials and parents on Monday urged the City Council to send the school’s $125.2 million budget to voters without requiring any additional cuts that would reduce investments in making public education more equitable for students.
The hearing comes after the council’s Finance Committee voted last week to require the Portland Board of Public Education to reduce its proposed $5.3 million budget increase by $1.5 million. The council will hold another hearing before voting next Monday.
Idahoâs COVID-19 case numbers keep going down, but greater Boise area has hot spots
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Three of the four counties under Central District Healthâs jurisdiction are currently competing for Idahoâs highest seven-day moving average incidence rate for COVID-19 cases reported per 100,000 residents.
Elmore County, which includes the city of Mountain Home, owns the highest rate statewide, at 21.8, while Boise County ranks second (16.4) and Ada County third (14.8). Elmore County had a test positivity rate of 9.6% for the week of April 11-17, which was well above the statewide positivity rate of 4.7% for the same week.
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Workers prepare the site for the construction of the new Longfellow Elementary school to be built south of the current school and the Rochester Armory on Marion road April 29, 2021. (Ken Klotzbach / kklotzbach@postbulletin.com)
Construction crews have broken ground on the new Longfellow Elementary, meaning three of the four building projects associated with Rochester Public Schools’ 2019 voter-approved referendum are underway.
Keane McWaters of Knutson Construction recently gave the Rochester School Board an update on the status of the three projects.
“Almost all the referendum projects are under construction now,” McWaters said.
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Joe Graves, superintendent for the Mitchell School District, hands out meeting materials to Mitchell Board of Education members Neil Putnam and Deb Olson in this Mitchell Republic file photo. (Sara Bertsch / Republic)
The Mitchell Board of Education on Monday night approved the annual compensation of several administrators with the Mitchell School District, following an executive session at the end of the meeting.
In addition to the 14 administrator salaries, the board also approved a 3% raise for Joe Graves, superintendent for the Mitchell School District, bringing his salary to $154,403 for the 2021-22 school year. Administrator salaries are considered, adjusted if deemed necessary and approved yearly by the board.