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