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DRAPER -- A change in budget is also a change in strategy for the Canyons School District when it comes to kids and reading.
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Canyons Board of Ed OKs 5 furlough days
The Canyons Board of Education voted Tuesday night to take five district-wide furlough days to help meet a $13 million budget shortfall.The Canyons District could no longer afford to subsidize 29 literacy facilitator positions, but no one was fired.
Amber Roderick-Landwards says the district now has achievement coaches instead, for a different way of looking at things.
"The achievement coaches won't be focused on individual teachers or individual students, but rather the whole system," Roderick-Landwards says.
She says some of the former literacy facilitators are now achievement coaches -- one for two schools -- the rest are back in the classroom teaching.
The new system costs less, but more importantly should focus on prevention of reading problems, especially with a new state law requiring some kids to be held back if they don't read at grade level.
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