5/7/13 - The Brighton Area Schoolsâ Board of Education approved the shared time services contract for the coming year at its meeting Monday night. Shared services is a program by which private and parochial schools contract with a public school district to provide non-core courses for which the private school lacks certified teachers in that particular discipline. Under the contract, the district will pay School Financial Solutions of Livonia 6% of the amount the district will be receiving in state school aid for the students enrolled. Superintendent Greg Gray tells WHMI that the shared services program is a major revenue-producer for the school district. Gray says that administration is working hard to increase the number of schools participating in Brightonâs shared time services program, and he expects from 20-40 more schools to be added to the over 40 which are enrolled in the program this year. The matter of shared time services was a sticking point in the districtâs earlier deficit elimination plan presented to the state, education department officials saying the numbers were overly optimistic. Gray says, however, Brighton school officials were able to convince the state in their latest presentation last week that the numbers were realistic. (TT)
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