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Show More about the tentative new school agreement (Contd. from page 2) proval) to Kayenta District 27 of Arizona (Monument Valley High School) for any who resides child grades in Douglas Mesa, Oljato or Monument Valley areas who advises the District in writing of his desire to attend that school, and is accepted there. Same goes for Red Mesa area students who want to go to Red Mesa High School in Chinle District 24 in Arizona. 6. The District agrees to reimburse parents of elechildren who live mentary more than two miles from the nearest stop... at the rate of 14 cents a mile for one round-tri- p a day per vehicle. 7. Activity bus routes which directly serve Oljato, Red Montezuma Creek, Mesa, Hatch Trading Post, Cahone Mesa, Aneth, Mexican Hat, Bluff and Douglas Mesa will continue, and will operate any school day on which at least five students would be transported to each area. Now we come to how the District would be obligated to handle expenditures under the tentative agreement. It is this area which causes much concern to Superintendent Ken Maughan, as reported in an Associated Press article last week-enAs Superintendent Maughan told a summer meeting of Utah superintendents: We may no longer be a district concerned with the needs of children, but will become instead with preoccupied fiscal accountability. Under the tentative agreement, then, the District: 1. Agrees it will allocate operational expenditures and expenditures for equipment to all schools in both northern and southern portions on a substantially equal basis, with consideration to specific conditions. 2. The. District will allocate instructional expenditures to all schools on a substantially equal basis. 3. Beginning with the fifth year after both new schools il are established, the instructional expenditure for all secondary schools in the northern portion, taken as a 9-- 12 d. . per-pup- Have shall not exceed the per-puinstructional exall secondary for penditure schools in the southern portion, taken as a whole, by more than five percent in any year, unless extraordinary circumstances arise. 4. The District doesnt admit whole, pil that the applicable law and the Constitution require that longevity pay be included, but does agree to the foregoing three points on the condition it continues to receive Public Law 874 funds at substantially the same level as now. Should those funds decline, the District would have the right to petition the Court for relief of those obligations to the extent they include longevity pay. There are also points in the agreement relating to elementary schools in the district, again summarized here: 1. The District will expand, renovate and improve existing elementary facilities in the southern portion so they are equal to substantially northern portion counterparts. 2. Because current population and projections indicate chilenough elementary-ag- e dren in the Navajo Mountain area to justify aschoolthere--a- t least kindergarten through e school officials will consult with the school community group and with parents in the area to determine if they want such a school. If study shows they do, and will send their children to it, the District will establish such a school as soon as practical, consistent with the rest of the agreement. 3. The District will determine if there are needs for other elementary schools in sixth--th- other areas. In the area of bilingual-bicultur- al and cultural aware- ness programs, the parties agreed to: 1. Base an educational program on the principle a child should have pride in his culhave tentatively tural heritage, and have an opportunity to learn in elementary school through the language in which he is best able to learn. 2. The necessity for an effective bilingual - bicultural in order that Indian program 66eat9 students who speak little or no English can participate fully and effectively in the educational process. Proceeding from those principles, the District Board of Education agrees to develop and use a plan that utilizes both Navajo and English as media of instruction, and a cultural awareness plan for all students, consisting of a study of Navajo history and culture. The language plan would be used in all District Elementary schools except Monticello and LaSal. The cultural awareness program would be available in all grades in all District schools. These plans would be begun immediately, and on a schedule resulting in completion of all phases, through sixth grade, for the 1977-7- 8 school year. The agreement then goes on to establish a schedule for submission of plans. In brief, that schedule states the District shall, no later than six months after approval of the agreement by the Court, submit a comprehensive plan for equalization of elementary facilities, including what work will be done, and how it will be funded. No later than November 1, 1975, the District will submit the bilingual-bicultur- al and cultural awareness plans. under the would have proposed schedule, 60 days after submission of a plan to file their position with the Court. The plan is assumed to be fully satisfactory if no position is filed. Hearings on any plan may be scheduled by the Court. There is also, in the agreement, a section dealing with reporting, with all requirements applying to the District. Among these: 1. The District shall report annually to the Court, beginning September 1, 1976, and The plaintiffs, later than September 1 each year thereafter. 2. The District will file an annual report of all expenditures of construction no funds until the basic requirements of the agreement arp including relevant fulfilled, actions in the preceding year. will teavel... tecting the interests of both and anticipated actions for the next. 3. Every three months, the District is to report actions of the most recent three months regarding completion of the two secondary schools, including assessment of when the facilities will be ready. If the estimate is later than in time for the 1977-7- 8 school year, the District must state a most-like- ly opening date. These reports would continue until the ready. parties. Perhaps the most significant of these provisions, and the one we hope will set the tone for the public meetings, reads as follows: If any party to this agreement, or its successors, believe that any other party has not complied with this agreement, such party shall make its best efforts to resolve such disagreement informally before taking other action in regard to this litigation or before otherwise seeking relief directly from this Court. It is clearly to everyones advantage that the whole thing stay out of the courts. And it is clearest of all to the ordinary taxpayer who is one way or another the bill for almost all of this are new schools For three years the District will report annually on instructional expenditures, beginning no later than for the 4. school year for elementary schools, and, for secondary schools, no later than the fifth year in which both southern portion secondary schools are open. 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