Triton Schools Making Budget Cuts
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Ashley Mazeline-
For starters, the board does not plan to hire extra staff for custodial work during the summer, which will save more than $18,000.
In the fall, it plans to reduce healthcare officials and change current job descriptions to require healthcare staff to work only 5.5 hours per day. The board also plans to give benefits only to employees who work more than 30 hours per week, which is a change from the current 17 hours per week that is required to earn benefits.
Grandfathered employees will not lose benefits, however, those who are hired to replace retired employees will not receive benefits for working less than 30 hours per week.
The board also plans to eliminate one elementary teacher position, which has yet to be decided.
One final budget cut will be in eliminating the high school industrial arts program, due to a lack of student participation.
On top of the budget cuts, the school is planning to increase lunch prices by 5 cents. This will increase elementary lunch prices to $1.65, and high school prices will be $1.85. The price increase is due to an increase in cost for healthy fruits and vegetables that are now part of the lunch program.
Fruits and vegetables are not the only healthy topics at Triton. Third-graders recently celebrated a 97 percent passing rate on the IREAD test scores. This is greater than the state average of 84 percent of third-graders passing.
Other Triton news includes the upcoming senior trip to Washington, D.C., the upcoming prom and further school testing next week.[[In-content Ad]]
For starters, the board does not plan to hire extra staff for custodial work during the summer, which will save more than $18,000.
In the fall, it plans to reduce healthcare officials and change current job descriptions to require healthcare staff to work only 5.5 hours per day. The board also plans to give benefits only to employees who work more than 30 hours per week, which is a change from the current 17 hours per week that is required to earn benefits.
Grandfathered employees will not lose benefits, however, those who are hired to replace retired employees will not receive benefits for working less than 30 hours per week.
The board also plans to eliminate one elementary teacher position, which has yet to be decided.
One final budget cut will be in eliminating the high school industrial arts program, due to a lack of student participation.
On top of the budget cuts, the school is planning to increase lunch prices by 5 cents. This will increase elementary lunch prices to $1.65, and high school prices will be $1.85. The price increase is due to an increase in cost for healthy fruits and vegetables that are now part of the lunch program.
Fruits and vegetables are not the only healthy topics at Triton. Third-graders recently celebrated a 97 percent passing rate on the IREAD test scores. This is greater than the state average of 84 percent of third-graders passing.
Other Triton news includes the upcoming senior trip to Washington, D.C., the upcoming prom and further school testing next week.[[In-content Ad]]
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