GAINESVILLE - Hall School Board members approved uniforms for Sugar Hill Elementary students during a called meeting Monday.
The Board unanimously approved the uniforms after reviewing a survey indicating 62 percent support for them.
Sugar Hill Principal Dr. Rick Quarles said uniforms will be voluntary when the new school year begins.
"We're economically disanvantaged as far as our client base,and we feel it would be a hardship on a lot of parents to buy uniforms all at once," Quarles said.
Quarles estimated the cost at $70 a student, which may be less costly in the long run for parents who buy designer clothes for their students.
BUDGET SHRINKING
Hall School Board members looked at shrinking the tax burden of its proposed $152.7 million budget Monday.
School Superintendent Dr. Dennis Fordham put up a list of reductions amounting to $2.5 million.
Fordham said the largest reduction was cutting 30 new teaching positions to save $1.6 million.
Cutting health insurance premium payments at $9 per employee would save another $270,000.
HANDBOOK CHANGES
Hall County Middle School will be a bit tougher in the new school year.
School board members reviewed changes in the Middle School Hand Book that tighten up testing requirements, according to Superintendent Dr. Dennis Fordham.
"They still have to pass four out of six or five out of seven courses, but they have to pass math or language arts," Fordham said.
The middle school principals group recommended the change and Fordham said year after next middle school students will have to pass math and language arts.
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