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Parents question fee and bus shortages for Alnoba trip; board discusses funding and logistics
Summary
Parents raised concerns that Swayze charged $100 per student for the Alnoba residential program while other schools did not. Board members and staff discussed the trip’s $15,000 total cost, use of about $9,000 in grant funds, 59 attending students, and transportation challenges that required parent pickup in some cases.
Parent Heather Haggitt raised concerns at the June 2 Brentwood School Board meeting about a $100 family fee for the district’s four-day Alnoba residential program, asking why the trip was treated as a field trip rather than as core programming and why other schools apparently did not charge families.
Principal Ron explained the program costs are roughly $15,000 and that the district offset a portion with grant funding; he said the school…
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