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him to explore options for changing the health insurance plan now offered school employees. Dr. Gangel recommended the move after Blue Cross/Blue Shield, the current carrier, upped its rates by 38.6 percent while simultaneously reducing its coverage. “Perhaps we caif*t do any better, but we owe it to our staff to investigate,” the superintendent said. And with the current carrier requesting a decision on continuance by August 15, the board authorized Dr. Gangel to select an insurance program for 1988-89.
• requested anyone interested in serving on the Family Life Education Committee to contact the central office. Dr. Gangel, who recently attended a two-day workshop on this new curriculum mandate with committee chairman Judy Tole, said he feels “very positive” about the program. “The state has left enough flexibility” for the development of a local curriculum that “doesn’t supplant, change or challenge the moral values of this community” but instead enhances those values, Dr. Gangel said. (The School Board will take this year to write a family life curriculum and will implement the
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