Mount Vernon Optic-Herald

The regular monthly meeting of the Mount Vernon School Board on Monday, June 14 began with Keri Cupp Gruber speaking during the open forum time and urging the members to consider allowing students to transfer into the district. Mrs. Gruber, who lives just outside the district’s boundaries, graduated from Mount Vernon High School in 1998. She was advised that her daughter, Chloe, who will enter the third grade in the fall, would no longer be allowed to attend MVISD.
“I work in Mount Vernon, I do my shopping here, I go to church here, my parents live here, and it would be a tremendous burden for my daughter not to go to school here,” Mrs. Gruber told the board.
Superintendent John Kaufman advised the board that 30 additional students would bring $150,000 per year to the district.
“I want to maximize the resources that we have. If that means adding another couple of kids in each grade, then I am for it,” Mr. Kaufman told the board.
The board voted to open the district to transfer students, and asked Mr. Kaufman to create standards and regulations for the process. For more details on this month’s meeting, see the June 17 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.