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Silver Consolidated leaders outline calendar changes, 4-day school-week criteria and mill-levy options to fund facilities
Summary
Superintendent Hawkins described PED’s March 7 ruling that required the district to revise its calendar to meet 180 instructional days and explained how 4-day school-week campuses (like Cliff) must meet proficiency-growth thresholds. District consultant Mark Valenzuela presented mill-levy scenarios showing that reaching a 10-mill level most likely would be required to fund a new school.
The Silver Consolidated School District board heard a districtwide calendar update and a detailed facilities funding briefing at its March 19 meeting.
Superintendent Eddie Hawkins told trustees the Public Education Department issued a March 7 ruling that compelled the district to convert certain staff-development and parent-conference days into instructional or remote-learning days so the district meets a 180 instructional-day requirement. Hawkins said the district adjusted three days (including an August staff-development day and two other dates) and used two remote-learning days as part of the fix so the school year start and end dates remain close to the schedule previously approved by the board.
Hawkins also described new PED guidance tied to four-day…
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