How will TUSD ensure student safety by increasing enrollment at schools due to school mergers?
A. Student safety is TUSD’s top priority. All school staff will actively participate in the safe supervision of students throughout the school day. Schools with increased enrollment actually have more funding that they may choose to use to hire more monitors, and in that way, we believe even better coverage can be provided based on the needs of the school. Q. By merging schools, the student population will increase at one location. TUSD will have the added cost of installing portables with air conditioning to accommodate the increased student population. Explain how TUSD will be saving money by merging schools. A. We do not anticipate the need to add any portables at the sites that are receiving schools. Additionally, in many instances, no additional classrooms need to be added. The cost savings of not running and staffing extra support staff such as kitchen workers, office, administration, monitors, and custodians will remain a constant savings year after year. In some schools the add
