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Board weighs cuts and new rules for field trips, overnight policy and funding categories
Summary
At the May 13 workshop trustees discussed combining partial- and student-funded field-trip categories, proposals to tighten overnight-trip rules and questions about which programs qualify for district-funded travel. Administration will produce clearer written criteria and review specific events ahead of the August field-trip approvals.
Elizabethtown Area School District trustees on May 13 discussed changes to how the district funds field trips, whether to tighten overnight-trip discipline rules and a move to reclassify trip categories for cost-cutting.
The discussion matters because the board is reviewing which trips it will continue to fund after the administration combined the prior category-2 (partially district-funded) and category-3 (fully student-funded) trips into a single non-district-funded category, leaving only category-1 trips as district-funded. That reclassification means more trips will require fundraisers, donations or outside funding to run.
Administrators explained how the historical three-tier system worked: category 1 events have been considered district funded (curricular alignment), category 2 had been…
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