PARIS — SAD 17 directors Monday night unanimously approved creating another fifth-grade teaching position to reduce class sizes at Paris Elementary School.
The recommendation was made by the Personnel Committee to reduce three classes that have 25, 26 and 26 students. By adding the position, each class will average 22 students.
The funds will come from the Rural and Low-Income School Grant Program of the U.S. Department of Education.
As of Oct. 1, Paris Elementary School had 78 fifth-graders.
In other action, Assistant Superintendent Patrick Hartnett, who filled in for Superintendent Rick Colpitts, provided affirmative action training to school directors.
Hartnett is the district employee responsible for assuring compliance with federal laws prohibiting discrimination, based on sex, in federally funded education programs or activities.
He said the district is above state average in the number of female administrators. Fifty percent of SAD 17 assistant principals are female and 57 percent of principals are female. The state average is 39 and 54 percent, respectively, he said.
The pay scale is equitable for male and female positions because more than 90 percent of SAD 17 positions are collectively bargained, he said.
In other action the board approved:
* Bids for the the lease-purchase financing of maintenance and food service equipment, lease-purchase financing of copiers, track resurfacing project and a skid-steer loader for the maintenance department;
* A snow removal bid for Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in Paris, Paris Elementary School in Paris, Oxford Elementary School in Oxford and Agnes Gray Elementary and Legion Memorial schools in West Paris;
* A field trip for Oxford Elementary School sixth-graders to the Schoodic Education Adventure Program at Acadia National Park on Nov. 8-10; and
* The superintendent’s nomination of Elizabeth Rankin as the licensed clinical social worker at Guy E. Rowe and Paris Elementary schools in Norway and Paris, respectively.
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