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Board weighs coach stipend disparities, team sizes and transportation barriers to student participation
Summary
Board members pressed for analysis of costs to raise stipends, parity between sports, and how transportation limits students’ ability to participate in middle- and high-school athletics.
Board members at the Hamilton County work session raised concerns about disparities in coaching supplements, unequal assistant-coach staffing across schools and transportation barriers that limit student participation.
Several board members noted the district’s current practice of paying coaches a percentage-based supplement and pointed to differences across sports: “Basketball coaches get a 15% stipend… baseball, softball and wrestling get a 10%,” said board member Steve (identified in the transcript as speaking on coaching supplements). He…
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