By ROWENA PLETT

Staff writer

It was a good year for employees of Centre school district. Everybody got pay raises for the next school year.

At its monthly meeting last week, the school board approved 5 percent raises for teachers and classified staff. The raise sets the teachers’ base salary at $38,281.

Superintendent Susan Beeson received a $2,500 raise to $102,873. Seventh through 12th-grade principal Donald Raymer received a $2,500 raise to $72,000.

Pay for student learning advocates in the Kansas Online Learning Program was increased from $300 to $375 a year per student.

Angela Basore and Kim Smith were approved as freshman class sponsors. They will be sponsors of that class as it moves through high school.

A new football sled was purchased.

The Dakota Gardner family was given permission to enroll a foreign exchange student, Regina Daniels of Germany, in Centre for the 2019-20 school year.

The board accepted the resignation of Deb Casey as school nurse.