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teachers and five aides. The set requirement is eight students per teacher, or 10 students per one teacher and one aide. Present staffing allows for 50 students. Two of the aides positions are not on contract. They will be replaced by a teacher but at current costs for teachers and aides, with six teachers and three aides, $22,973 will still be needed to fund a new position. Gangel will advertise and hire a teacher and will bring the matter before the supervisors. • The board approved the consent agenda which included the attendance report, field trip report, general leave report and high school fundraising requests. The current attendance levels are 656 at the elementary school and 396 at the high school. • Ed Rissler reported to the board about an inservice he attended on biodiversity at the Smithsonian’s Conservation and Research Center in Front; Royal. He is implementing a program to study biodiversity — the effect of humans on environmental systems — in his 7th grade class. The class ha$ set out a piece of land that Tole has agreed to let them use on his property for the study. They will learn map reading skills as a related activity and will identify all the different species of trees on the plot. They will then create a map and position for each tree, collect data and construct a data base to put on the
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