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More than $90K in cuts approved for Wetmore school

By Greg Bebermeyer

04/12/2018

(KMZA)--More than $90,000 in cuts have been approved at the Wetmore Attendance Center for next school year.

Prairie Hills USD 113 Superintendent Todd Evans says the Board of Education took the action during their regular meeting Monday evening to meet viability standards set for the school.

Among the cuts is the elimination of an elementary teaching position, art teacher one half day per week and part-time evening custodian.

The elimination of the elementary teaching position is being made through attrition, with the retirement resignation of a teacher at the end of the current school year.

The art teacher elimination will transfer the burden of teaching art to the classroom teachers, from the teacher who travels to Wetmore for one half day per week.

The main challenge being faced at the Wetmore school is a declining enrollment.

With the potential of 74 kindergarten students for next school year, Evans says the Board approved the hiring of an additional teacher for the Sabetha Elementary School. Three sections of kindergarten are currently provided.

The USD 113 Board also approved the purchase of new K-8 science textbooks at a total cost of about $75,000.

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