Board approves tuition fund, teachers accept new positions, resign from SLE

SEELEY LAKE – The Seeley Lake Elementary School board approved setting up a tuition fund at their Jan. 15 meeting. They also accepted junior high teacher Duane Schlabach’s resignation effective Feb. 22 after he accepted a position with the Office of Public Instruction (OPI) as their Chief Data Analyst.

SLE Superintendent Chris Stout explained the tuition fund allows a school to pay another school, with the facilities or staffing, to educate the student if they require instruction beyond which OPI and the state law considers within the scope of what the school can offer. The fund is administere...