{"id":16275,"date":"2021-06-30T01:15:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T01:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=16275"},"modified":"2021-06-29T19:50:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T19:50:46","slug":"school-board-approves-budget-plan-new-wrhs-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/30\/school-board-approves-budget-plan-new-wrhs-schedule\/","title":{"rendered":"School Board Approves Budget Plan,  New WRHS Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">June saw Blaine County School District trustees make two unanimous decisions\u2014one perfunctory, one not\u2014that will impact students significantly next year, especially high schoolers. And both had little or nothing to do with the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> The perfunctory? Approval of what is essentially a preliminary and balanced budget for the 2021-22 school year totaling more than $64.5 million. The unexpected? Approval of using the trimester system at Wood River High School for the 2021-22 school year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Plans for the upcoming school year were to use a quarter system with the goal of allowing certain classes\u2014like band\u2014to continue now and then wrap up at the school calendar\u2019s halfway mark (the semester). The district said management software shortcomings prevented that. Trustees took in staff, teacher, parent and student feedback to determine that a trimester format\u2014breaking the school calendar up into three chunks\u2014was the best alternative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> As for the budget, the public can submit comments on the approved budget before the trustees\u2019 July 20 session, wherein the board can make tweaks based on that feedback and other factors.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June saw Blaine County School District trustees make two unanimous decisions\u2014one perfunctory, one not\u2014that will impact students significantly next year, especially high schoolers. And both had little or nothing to do with the pandemic. The perfunctory? Approval of what is essentially a preliminary and balanced budget for the 2021-22 school year totaling more than $64.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,84,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-elections","8":"category-in-brief","9":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16280,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16275\/revisions\/16280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}