18 students? District could hire Pre-K teacher and teacher’s aide

Posted on August 19, 2016

Faced with the loss of a $1.2 million to operate Head Start, the Taylor County School District is devising a plan to expand its current Pre-K services.

“We looked at our options and said, ‘What can we do?’ One of the answers was to expand our four-year-old program…get those four-year-olds in Head Start to transfer to our Pre-K. A class of 18 four-year-olds will generate $40,962 (in funding). That would allow us to hire a teacher and a teacher’s aide for the class,” Dyal told a standing-room-only crowd at Tuesday night’s special workshop.

PHOTO: A capacity crowd–many Head Start employees–attended the Aug. 16 school board workshop.

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