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Monticello board approves four new elective courses, two contingent on grant funding
Summary
The board approved four elective courses for the 2026–27 catalog — a Speak & Write ELD course, an outdoor literature/hiking elective, an unmanned aerial systems (drones) course and a CIS intro to special education — with the drones and special-education course contingent on grant awards; the vote was 4–0.
The Monticello Public School District board voted 4–0 on Dec. 15 to add four elective courses to the 2026–27 course catalog, with two classes contingent on receiving grant funding.
Principal Laurie Hanson and staff described the set of electives: an ELD-focused "Speak and Write" course to support multilingual learners; an outdoor/hiking elective with projects such as planning a week-long hike and units on hunting, fishing, farming and forestry ecology; an Unmanned…
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