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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, January 2-4, 2019 Education The Park Record. Editor: Carolyn Webber Alder education@parkrecord.com 435.649.9014 ex.15718 A-5 The Park Record STUDENTS WILL DANCE FOR JOY, SADNESS, A-6 www.parkrecord.com PACKED SCHOOLS FIND TRANSITORY FIX, A-7 A-5 WED/THURS/FRI, JANUARY 2-4, 2019 District examines cost of equity after audit DISTRICT SURVEY ON MASTER PLANNING OPEN The Park City School District recently released a survey for district employees and community members to complete. According to the district’s website, the survey is about the six guiding principles the district drafted during a summit in October. The survey is available in both English and Spanish, and is part of the district’s master planning process. To take the survey, visit www.pcschools.us. PC READS TO HOST EVENT ON SPECIAL EDUCATION Park City READS is set to host an event on Tuesday called Collaborating with Your School. According to a flier, Jaclyn Knapp, director of special education for Park City School District, is set to speak about changes she is making in the district’s special education department. The event is set to take place from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Blair Education Center, Classroom I-A. Social time is expected to follow until 2:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. YOUTH SPORTS ALLIANCE WINTER PROGRAMS START The Youth Sports Alliance is hosting after-school activities starting Friday, Jan. 4, through March, according to a flier. Programs include boxing at Rise Boxing, freestyle skiing and snowboarding at Utah Olympic Park and cross-country skiing at Soldier Hollow. Dates, times and prices vary. For more information and to register, visit www.ysaparkcity.org. For questions, contact trilby@ysaparkcity.org or 406-498-9995. Fee waivers and scholarships are available. PARK RECORD FILE PHOTO A proposed rule aims to reduce barriers of expensive activity fees CAROLYN WEBBER ALDER The Park Record As part of the Park City School District’s pledge to improve social equity at its schools, the Park City Board of Education voted in April to remove mandatory and academic-related fees for students. Around the same time, the Utah State Board of Education performed an audit and found that Utah public schools were collecting excessive fees for extracurricular activities, totaling $71 million in 2017. A second audit by the Office of the Legislative Auditor General followed months later, and it came to a similar conclusion. School fees in Utah are too high, and districts around the state have to change. Based on a proposed rule from the State Board of Education’s new School Fees Task Force — which started meet- Music instructor Bret Hughes conducts rehearsal with the percussion section of the Park City High School marching band. If a proposed rule from the Utah State Board of Education’s new School Fees Task Force goes into effect, fees or required materials for classes like band will have to go through a new process, and a fee limit would be set for extracurricular activities. ing over the summer — all public school districts in Utah would have to implement caps on academic and extra-curricular fees. Boards would also have to present all fees to their communities through a public notice and hold a public meeting on the fees. The fees would be subject to a fee waiver policy. Although the rule is only a recommendation, Todd Hauber, the business administrator for the Park City School District, said the State Board is likely to adopt the policy as it stands. One of the major changes in the task force’s proposed rule is the new definition of school fees. Under the rule, fees would include anything of monetary value, which could mean a performance uniform or a book that students are required to read over the summer. Academic and school-sponsored extra-curricular activities are included in the definition. “Even though no one paid the school money for that outfit, if it is required to have the outfit in order to perform, you just created a fee, so that is now subject to the notice and adoption requirement,” What is the right thing to do for our community? Is the right thing to provide those activity options to everyone or to provide a certain amount to everyone or to provide a certain stipend?” Andrew Caplan, Park City Board of Education Hauber said. “It changes the whole nature of the conversation.” Teachers, principals and coaches from Ecker Hill Middle School through Park City High School would have to submit information about any fees or required materials to the Park City Board of Edu- cation by the spring. Even $5 for students to go on a field trip will need to be reported, Hauber said. He said the Board is already having conversations with administrators at Park City High School, where the majority of the district’s school fees are in place, to determine what fees or required materials are included in the classes and activities. There is no timeline in place for Utah school districts to be compliant with the proposed rule, but Hauber said the Park City School District wants to be ready for any outcome. In the proposed rule, the new deadline for fees to be approved by local school boards is April 1, which is two weeks earlier than the Park City Board of Education typically approves the fee schedule. The Board will need to work with school administrators over the next few months to gather information about existing fees, and then set two new required maximums for school fees. 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