MH school board approves new pre-school for district employees

The Mountain Home School Board approved a new pre-school during a special meeting Monday night. The program is called Flight Academy and will serve three and four-year-old children of all district employees. Flight Academy is scheduled to open next week when classes begin in Mountain Home and it will be housed in the kindergarten building.School district Superintendent Dr. Jake Long says the program came about as an employee incentive.

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The pre-school will be offered to school district employees at a discounted rate of $45 per week.

Long says the district has been working on ways to find incentives for employees other than just raises which, with the large number of employees the district has, can be a huge chunk of the budget.

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Long says the Flight Academy is an expansion of the after school program which started in January and has been very successful.

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The after school program is open to the public and is for kindergarten, first and second graders.

In other business Monday night, the Mountain Home School board approved expenditures of $87,512 for site preparation and construction of the concrete slab for the green house. The board voted in May to purchase the green house with start up funds from the state. The green house allows Mountain Home schools to begin a new course in plant science. Dr. Long says the project should be operational by late September or early October.

The board also hired several employees. Click here to view the new hires and transfers.

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