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District proposes contracting with Utah Online School for secondary courses to cut eSchool costs
Summary
The superintendent's team proposed moving most eSchool course delivery to Utah Online School, keeping two district staff for enrollment and testing, and said the change could save roughly $500,000 a year while affecting 30–40 part‑time teacher stipends; the board asked for more detail on staffing impacts and student limits.
District leaders on Jan. 13 proposed restructuring the district's eSchool program and moving much of secondary course delivery to Utah Online School (UOS), a state online‑provider, as a cost‑saving and operational simplification measure.
John Anderson, presenting the review, said the district spent about $832,000 operating its in‑district eSchool program last year and that UOS offered a contract price that would have cost roughly $324,000 to deliver the same credits under a local MOU. Anderson summarized the arithmetic: "PCSD eSchool awarded 649 credits to our district students in '24 and '25. That same…
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