High school will prepay consortium tuitions

Jennifer Simmons
Posted 4/16/18

Rochelle Township High School board members approved an intergovernmental agreement with the Kishwaukee Education Consortium Monday night allowing the district to prepay tuition bills in order to avoid a potential deficit.

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ROCHELLE — Rochelle Township High School board members approved an intergovernmental agreement with the Kishwaukee Education Consortium Monday night allowing the district to prepay tuition bills in order to avoid a potential deficit.
“This agreement does not have any connection to students paying tuition at KEC. The home high school district for each student covers the costs of tuition and all the high school districts in the consortium pay their bills promptly,” RTHS superintendent Jason Harper said. “Tuition is determined by the number of classes being offered and how many students are taking those classes. Luckily, KEC tuition has not risen in the past five years.
In general, this is a new policy. The purpose of the policy is to allow a district, in this case RTHS, to pre-pay future consortium bills in order to provide the consortium cash flow during periods of time when the state has not released grant money. When the next year’s tuition bill comes, the pre-payment will be deducted from the bill in order to make the home district whole again. If grant money from the state were to flow on schedule, this would not be an issue.
RTHS is one of five area high schools including DeKalb, Sycamore, Hiawatha, Genoa-Kingston high schools, and Kishwaukee College that participate in the program.

KEC offers high school students the opportunity to take classes during their junior and senior year of high school in a variety of careers and technology programs. Programs include automotive technology, automated engineering technology, aviation, building maintenance, certified nursing assistant, collision repair, CIS/web development, cosmetology, criminal justice, culinary arts, diesel power, early childhood, emergency medical technician basic, esthetics, fire fighting, mass communications, medical terminology and welding.
The board also approved a proposed HVAC repair bid to be put out to repair heating issues that RTHS has experienced this year.
“We have worked closely with GreenAssociates to prepare the bid to cover the work that needs to be done,” Harper said.
Resignations
Board members approved resignations from Richard Harvey as the head wrestling coach, Molly Sly as the assistant volleyball coach, Alison Vrana as assistant volleyball coach, Michael Dale as assistant boys basketball coach and Chris Blevins as maintenance/custodial and head girls’ soccer coach.
Approved for employment was Sly as head volleyball coach, Laura Frolik as part-time Spanish/French teacher and Garrett Zickur as a substitute bus driver.