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Six local school boards met last week.

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Kansas
Highlight:
- Reviewing proposed budget for the 2012-13 school year
Highlights:
- Receiving an update on projects funded by school bond sales approved by voters
- Considering revising facility usage policies
- Reviewing proposed budget for 2012-13 school year
- Considering approval of City of Gardner excise tax for the campus for the elementary and middle schools
Highlights:
- Approving a $48.5 million budget for the 2012-13 school year including a slightly lower mill levy based on assessed valuations that are down more than $2.6 million from last year
- Accepting a $10.9 million settlement in relation to an anti-trust lawsuit involving the JP Morgan financial services company’s role in the sale of school bonds during the first decade of the 21st century
- Received a report about the real estate closing on Morris Elementary School, with information that sale proceeds are being deposited in the district’s capital outlay fund
Missouri
Highlights:
- Receiving an enrollment update
- Considering revising district policies
Highlight:
- Hearing an accreditation update from Superintendent R. Stephen Green
Highlights:
- Hearing a report on this year’s assessed property tax valuation
- Considering a proposal to increase the property tax levy in the district
- Announcing a public tax levy hearing for Thursday, Aug. 23
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