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The board passed Regulation 4393, covering accelerated pathways for educator and school-psychology candidates to complete student-teaching and internship requirements for licensure. The regulation addresses both educator and school-psychology candidate pathways.
The board approved two $500,000 Gene Haas Foundation grants to support Advanced Machining Labs at Cimarron-Memorial High School and Southeast Career and Technical Academy. The funding is designated for career and technical education at those two schools.
The draft September 9 minutes report that the Board unanimously adopted a Pathway Expansion goal to raise on-time graduation with a College and Career Readiness or Advanced Diploma from 36% to 50% by the end of school year 2030–31. Later approval of those minutes was not identified in the reviewed corpus.
The September 1, 2026 agenda asked the board to extend the 7th Generation school improvement contract for a total of $190,000 from Title grants. In October the board also considered $91,000 in Catapult Learning contracts for summer school and after-school help.
Superintendent Jonathan Firme resigned, effective August 19, 2026. On August 26 the board made District Principal Scott Shakespeare interim superintendent at a salary of $87,789.69 and voted 5-0 to fill the job from inside the district instead of running a search.
On August 25, 2026 the board approved a $13,468 community health worker contract with Julia Viani. Board president Tyler Viani said for the record that he is her cousin, then made the motion and voted yes. It passed 3-0.
The board approved bids for a $1,782,583 HVAC upgrade of the Mineral County High School gym in December 2025 and the OASIS contract in January 2026. In July 2026 it approved an addendum moving the completion date to August 17, 2026.