The Athens City School District Board of Education had its last regular meeting of the school year last night, discussing Title I funding, technology assessment and employee insurance.
For the 2003-04 school year, the district received $600,000 from Title I, a federal program that provides assistance to disadvantaged students in the form of free and reduced lunches and other programs. Superintendent Carl Martin said Athens will receive $48,000 less for the upcoming school year.
Title I funding helps keep classes small and helps pay for a special reading program and literacy collaborative, Martin said.
We're going to lose services for the kids
he said.
The board members will work in the next few days to figure out how to deal with this cutback, Martin said.
In other discussions, board members approved a contract between the district and Highsmith Technology Consulting, a Wisconsin-based firm that will perform a technology assessment on all the buildings in the district. Highsmith is expected to analyze the network equipment, the operating systems and software and other technology.
Also, board members approved insurance rates presented by district Treasurer Matt Bunting. Currently the district is self-insured, but after losing $350,000 in claims during the 2002-03 school year and $1.3 million this school year, it will phase in a plan during the next three years to insure medical, drug, dental and vision insurance. 17
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