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District details use of integrated guidance grants: counselors, CTE and early literacy tutors funded
Summary
The board reviewed an 'integrated guidance' budget showing roughly $460,000 from a high‑school success grant and $1.3M+ from the Student Investment Account to fund counselors, CTE positions, equity stipends and targeted tutors; the plan is for one year of a two‑year biennium.
At the meeting the board reviewed an "integrated plan budget 25/26" that groups multiple state grants into a single plan for the upcoming school year. Curriculum director Tanya Cinco outlined the four grant sources the district will use locally and provided a line‑item breakdown of salaries and benefits.
Tanya said the district expects just over $460,000 from the high‑school success grant; that amount is planned to fund two academic counselors (Catherine Allred and Misty Snively), portions of ag and cosmetology teachers, and the social‑emotional counselor who supports Winter Lakes schools. The Student Investment Account, she said, is substantially larger at about $1.3 million and will cover kindergarten readiness, paraprofessionals, additional social‑emotional counselors (Sonia Amlin and Michelle Bullington), portions of CTE teacher salaries (a total of about 3.5 CTE positions across grants), speech‑language pathologists and SLPA support, and summer school programming. The early‑literacy grant will fund targeted tutors at Lincoln and CVE.
Cinco emphasized that the amounts shown are for one year of a two‑year biennium and that the district has not yet budgeted for the second year. The board was shown a packet with the narrative and the budget breakdown and was asked to approve projected expenditures.
