Hopkins School District #270

07/26/2011

The one-time Federal monies made available to Hopkins Public Schools served multiple purposes. Some of those monies were allocated to a targeted staffing account for the District staffing committee to allocate among K-12 programming. For the elementary, additional positions were added to the available teaching Full Time Equivalency (FTE) positions. 7.5 positions were added to the total positions available. These positions were then distributed District-wide. This allowed us to keep class sizes across the District from rising above 30 students in the elementary. Without these additional positions, we would have experienced multiple classrooms over 30 students and we would have had to reduce elementary counseling positions.

In addition, hours were given to increase Kindergarten paraprofessionals time with students. Those hours were distributed to those classes with the enrollments closest to 30 students.

Funds were not distributed to specific buildings. The goal the staffing committee identified was to reduce class sizes for those classes that were over 30 students or closest to the 30 students at the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year. Thus, the distribution was District-wide.