Minidoka County Joint School District #331

• By: Minidoka County School District

Joint Press Release

The Minidoka County Joint School District #331 Board of Trustees and teachers from the Minidoka County Education Association (MCEA) have each ratified the negotiated contract for the 2009-2010 school year.  The main points of the agreement reached included a 2.1% reduction in salaries for teachers and certificated staff via four “furlough” days unpaid, as well as, elimination of the “Friday Early Release” (which was used for instructional prep time) and the associated school bus routes.  Instructional preparation time was reconfigured during the school day in order to assure quality instruction and eliminating the extra Friday bus runs

In addition, the board effected a 3% salary reduction on the base for administrators…

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• By: John W. Kontos, Principal, Mt. Harrision Jr. Sr. High School

Summer School

The school year is over and summer has arrived for the kids. Some adults will be off taking classes or the many other things that have been put on the back burner. For some of us the school year will continue with the beginning of summer school.

Summer School begins on June 8th, 2009 at 8:00 am at East Minico and will go each day until 1:30 pm.

The first session for high school students will go from June 8th to June 25th. The second session will go from June 26th to July 16th with the 3rd of July off. The high school students will have a one period day…

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