Brighton School Board Adopts Pay-to-Play Elimination Plan
Pay-to-play fees will be eliminated altogether in two years.
Pay-to-play fees will soon be no more in Brighton Area Schools. School Board of Education members voted 6-1 to eliminate fees over a span of two years beginning with a 50 percent drop this fall followed by eliminating the remaining 50 percent during the 2013-2014 school year. With this schedule, the district will lose $120,000 this year. Board Secretary Beth Minert cast the lone dissenting vote. Minert voiced her concern that the athletics budget is not self-sustaining and never will be, along with the district anticipating losing approximately $40 per student, depending on state aid. Superintendent Greg Gray had brought the newly adopted schedule along with two other possible pay-to-play elimination plans to board members in April. Other …
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Karen Mazurek
9:56 am on Thursday, September 6, 2012
This is great news for our student athletes and their parents. I commend the Board, Superintendent Gray and the Athletic Department for making this decision in such difficult financial times. more ›