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Board agrees to move SELSA cooperative-innovative high school application forward
Summary
Board members authorized the chair to sign an application seeking supplemental PRC-55 funding for SELSA, directing staff to continue planning with AB Tech while noting the application is subject to multiple levels of state review and appropriation.
The Asheville City Schools board agreed on a path forward for SELSA’s application to be considered for PRC-55 supplemental funding from the state, authorizing the board chair to sign the application so it can proceed through the Department of Public Instruction review process.
The application seeks supplemental allotments meant for Cooperative Innovative High Schools that, if appropriated by the General Assembly, would provide $180,000 annually (tier 3 allotment) to support a full-time college liaison, a community program coordinator and other programmatic needs. Jeremy Gibbs, who presented the update, said the funding is intended to strengthen SELSA’s postsecondary alignment and advising and would not be a top-to-bottom redesign of the school. “This is more of a refinement and improvement of practices and, quite frankly,…
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