News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
It'll cost more to eat and play sports at Sisters schools next year.
The Sisters School District has raised meal prices and increased pay-to-play fees for sports. The moves are part of general belt-tightening in the face of severe budget cuts.
The meal price increases are not terribly sharp. Elementary school lunches will go up 30 cents, from $1.20 to $1.50 and high school prices will go up 25 cents from $1.75 to $2.00.
Middle school lunches are unchanged at $1.75. Breakfast will cost 25 cents more for elementary school students.
Pay-to-play fees increased more sharply. Middle schoolers will pay a $60 annual fee next year, instead of the $40 per sport charge of last year.
Next year's high school students will pay a $120 annual fee. Last year they paid $40 per sport with a $100 cap.
The result is a large increase in charges for one-sport athletes; school district officials acknowledged that the framework encourages multi-sport participants.
The district will not use the $10,000 saved in transportation cuts by the return to a single calendar to fund co-curricular activities.
According to school board chairman Harold Gott, the board's consensus was to use that money for textbooks and classroom needs.
Jim Cornelius is editor in chief of The Nugget and author of “Warriors of the Wildlands: True Tales of the Frontier Partisans.” A history buff, he explores frontier history across three centuries and several continents on his podcast, The Frontier Partisans. For more information visit www.frontierpartisans.com.
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