County School Board approves 2009-2010 budget

Friday, June 26, 2009

The Dyer County School Board met for its June meeting with several items on the agenda for consideration, from handbooks to the 2009-2010 budget.

First on the agenda, was a presentation by several Dyer County High School students who represented the board at the Tennessee School Boards Association SCOPE (Student Congress on Policies in Education) conference at Tennessee State University in downtown Nashville.

SCOPE brings together ninth- through 12th-grade students from across the state to discuss major topics in education. The participants have an opportunity to discuss major topics and learn about education issues through mock school board meetings, discussions and debates.

Shortly after the conference, the students' opinions and recommendations are published in a report that is distributed to all student participants and published in the TSBA April Journal, which is sent to each school board member in Tennessee, the state Board of Education and key legislators. Students also are asked to report the findings of the conference to their local school board.

The Dyer County representatives were awarded certificates of appreciation from the TSBA and the Dyer County Board of Education.

Afterward, the board approved four items on the agenda.

First, by a unanimous vote the board approved handbooks for the upcoming school year.

Next, the board approved the amendment of the Carl Perkins Federal Revenues Grant. The Carl Perkins grant is a federal grant totaling $52,825. The amendment moved $4,300 from one line item to another and will be used to purchase more supplies.

The board then approved the 2009-2010 consolidated application and applicable budgets. This vote approved federal funds for the upcoming school year for Title 1 Part A (academic achievement of the disadvantaged), Title 2 Part A (teacher quality), Title 2 Part D (technology) and Title 4 (safe and drug-free schools). The budget for these federal funds totals $1,164,811.

Finally, the board approved the Dyer County Schools 2009-2010 tentative school budget. The general-purpose fund is $23,684,431, the transportation budget is $2,162,711 and the food-service budget is $1,895,401.

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Dyer County will spend $26,797,468.00 to fulfill the state's minimum requirement for four hours of academic instruction per day per student in a 180 day school term. No wonder our country is broke.

-- Posted by A Citizen on Sat, Jun 27, 2009, at 3:26 AM