Program, Teachers, Books on List

By Reading Eagle, Pa.

Mar. 13–The Daniel Boone School Board is scheduled to meet tonight at 7:30 in the Monocacy Kindergarten Center on Route 82 in Birdsboro. The board plans to discuss options the district is considering to trim $1 million from a proposed $42.6 million budget. The district must reduce the budget to comply with Act 72 regulations, which limit any tax increase — with only a few exceptions — to the rate of inflation. Among cuts being considered: An instructional support program and two teacher positions. Two budgeted elementary teacher positions. Buses for after-school tutor programs. A $50,000 teacher mentor program. Textbooks budgeted at $50,000. District officials said the district also could eliminate two buses by forcing elementary school children who live within 1.5 miles of school and secondary school children who live within two miles of school to walk as long as their neighborhoods have sidewalks. The district also could adjust salary and benefits for long-term substitutes and other non-contract employees and eliminate a bus for students who move into the district during the school year. Also being considered: Eliminating a security guard at the middle school to save $24,000. Cutting an alternative education program in half to save $105,000. Adding commercial advertising to the district’s Web site.

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