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Board hears plan for LETRS stipends, discusses nutrition bids and summer feeding
Summary
Officials sought board approval to pay $1,000 stipends to 94 teachers who completed LETRS training, discussed renewing several nutrition bids, noted local food purchases and outlined summer feeding plans including mobile bus routes under a waiver.
The Coffee County Board of Education heard a request to award $1,000 stipends to 94 teachers who completed LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling), funding the payments from federal programs, Kim Miller told the board.
Miller said the 94 participants — primarily kindergarten through second‑grade teachers with a few special‑education teachers — completed a two‑year LETRS course aligned to the state’s science‑of‑reading requirements. Miller described the stipend as recognition for online and outside coursework…
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