Board discusses track 'collective' with Echo and classification implications for co‑ops

Board members reviewed upcoming athletics arrangements and classification rules that affect small schools. A board speaker described the district's plan to run track in a "collective" with Echo — "when you share coaches, and coaches can coach all the kids" — while students compete for their individual schools for classification and postseason. The speaker said the collective is distinct from a cooperative agreement and was chosen to avoid automatically moving Stanfield into a higher competitive classification.