Adair County Keeps All Teachers

After the major budget shortfall that has plagued the state education department, many school systems including Adair County were worried about losing additional teachers. But according to Superintendent Darrell Treece and the school board the teachers are safe for at least one more year.
During last Thursday meeting of the Adair County School Board Treece announced that with the current budget the board would not have to cut any teaching positions and in fact had the funds available to hire two retention specialists.
According to Treece the school district was given additional funding in the Title I stimulus money to create the two positions for two-years and their purpose will be to help with students that are having trouble and keep them in school.
In addition to the new positions the board also approved a state mandated 1% raise for the teachers.
The board also approved several standard bids including: Lifetouch for the school photographs, City Tires of Somerset for tires, Ohio Casualty through Reed Brothers for insurance and Somerset Foods for food services.
The board also approved a bid from First and Farmers National Bank for the bank of depository and bonds at a 2.52% fixed interest rate.
Treece then received approval for a change order regarding the new entrance and paving at Adair County Elementary School.
According to Treece the change order was for additional digging that was done because of clay formations that were encountered.
Although the agenda included an item to discuss the district enrollment procedures the board decided to table the issue for further review.
According to Treece, under the current policy a student could wind up moving schools six different times before moving into the seventh grade.