# Hillsboro-Deering School District Ideas

* Ask Students to Come up with Ideas
  * integrate business plans into curriculum
* Build sheds to sell
* Charge for Music / Plays
  * limited number of free family tickets or family attends rehearsals
* Greenhouse
  * grow cash crops
  * grow food for cafeteria
  * space for local florists who could maintain the other plant areas over the weekends
* Charge more for school lunches, encourage families to pack foods

## Hillsboro Alone

* Renegotiate contracts
* Pay teachers more, merit-based, without union, encourage courageous, calculated, risk-taking teachers to bring about award-winning academic performance
* Get out of Federal funding programs before they may, or may not, disappear or change
  * dramatically reduces administrative overhead
* Downsize from three to two buildings
  * Makerspace
    * sponsored by Osram
  * Flea Markets and events
    * Attract people to local economy
  * local use of classrooms as meeting areas
    * premium charge for keep stuff in rooms between meetings
    * Osram off-site classes
    * National Guard off-site classrooms
    * First-aid
    * Scouts
    * Home school-ers co-op space
    * Home school-ers winter gym class area
  * Regional first-responder training site
    * charge extra for live-actors
  * Twitch streaming to live audiences
  * Online and new games tournaments
    * Attract people to local economy
  * Movie nights
    * black and white movies should be in public domain
    * sell popcorn
  * Use the building as a movie set
    * John Hughes style
    * nearby college movie-making courses
    * Attract people to local economy