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Superintendent lays out four staffing and funding options to keep PACE program running
Summary
After a town hall, Superintendent Lavender presented four staffing/funding options to sustain the district's PACE program (enrollment ~70), ranging from shared teachers to three full‑time content teachers; the board did not vote but agreed to consider a phone vote on a final option later this week.
Superintendent Lavender told the Casa Grande Union High School District board that administrators had developed four staffing-and-budget options to keep the PACE alternative program operating after concerns raised at a recent town hall.
Lavender said the district is treating the program's staffing and fiscal sustainability as urgent and presented four scenarios built around different mixes of full‑time teachers, part‑time teachers who split time with other campuses, paraprofessionals and security support.
"Option number A is to have one full‑time teacher who is instructionally strong and comfortable with teaching by PBL (project‑based learning) and two paraprofessionals, and then three highly qualified teachers to travel from other campuses to teach math, language arts and science," Lavender said, listing an estimated revenue figure of about $616,000 for 70 students and an estimated cost he described as roughly $625,000 under…
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