Hillsboro-Deering School District Ideas

Points

Deering leaving does not cause financial hardship for Hillsboro, it exposes the pre-existing financial issues.
For years, Deering complained of the expanding school budget, but out-voted by Hillsboro.

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

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