The Cherokee County School Board heard a budget forecast recently that envisions no millage rate increase in 2018, despite the hiring of 61 teachers and staff to accommodate an anticipated 572 additional students.
The district also intends to continue with class-size reductions, to an average 20 students in kindergarten through third grade, and 26 students in fourth and fifth grade, schools Superintendent Brian V. Hightower said.
Six more schools are to be retrofitted with security foyers, new special education preschool buses will be purchased, a new GPS system for all buses will let parents track their child’s bus online, and $3 million will be spend upgrading English and Language Arts elementary school instructional resources for the first time in a decade.
The full budget is to be released later this month, with public hearings June 6 and 15 and a school board vote June 15. Cherokee has 41 public schools and learning centers, 4,500 employees and more than 41,000 students.
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