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District proposes $587,000 summer program expansion, CTE camps and SkillsU professional development
Summary
Superintendent outlined a $587,000 summer-school package focused on K–3 reading remediation and enrichment camps, career-technical education (CTE) summer camps, and a two-day SkillsU professional-development program; administrators described summer staff pay, transportation and attendance strategies.
Administrators presented a multi-part summer proposal that would use district and (where possible) federal funds to offer targeted K–3 remediation, enrichment camps, a CTE summer camp for middle-school students and a two-day district professional-development (SkillsU) offering.
Why it matters: staff estimated the district-wide summer programming cost for the proposed FY26 effort at about $587,000. That figure covers half-day elementary remediation and enrichment (including K–3 reading supports required by the Third Grade Success Act), middle- and high-school remediation and credit-recovery options, and a federally funded CTE camp to be hosted at two high-school campuses in year one.
Administrators described the CTE offering as a full-day experience available at two campuses (tentatively Musselman and Hedgesville/Edgesville as named in the presentation) with modules such as agriculture, culinary, mechanics and graphic design; the CTE camp would be federally funded where possible. The K–3 summer program was described as invite-only based on end-of-year diagnostics, with a goal of preventing summer learning loss and, where required, meeting the state’s remedial attendance expectations.
Board members pressed staff on attendance and instructional time. Administrators said elementary camps are half-day programs focused on direct teacher-led instruction (not solely computer-based remediation), that staff intend to reserve bus service and hubs to maximize attendance, and that summer pay historically has been paid at roughly 90% of an employee’s daily rate for participating staff.
SkillsU: staff said the district wants to convert locally successful classroom practice into targeted professional development, delivered over two days and organized by grade/content for better instructional impact. Administrators said some summer costs may be covered by federal grant funds where allowable; they will return with more precise funding sources once state aid and grant budgets are finalized.
Ending: Administrators will report back with attendance projections, routes/transportation plans, precise staffing costs and any available federal funding offsets before the board finalizes FY26 allocations.
