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Full -time Spanish Translator /Interpreter $ 60,262 A full -time, 12 -month Spanish translator /interpreter position is needed to better meet the needs of NCL,B at a more efficient cost to the district. The district currently uses contractors to provide the services. Expansion of After School Proficiency Classes $ 51,000 Schools have requested additional funds to extend the after school opportunities to 18 weeks for students who are not experiencing success. The request is to provide $3,000 more to elementary and middle schools (39,000), and $6,000 more to each high school ($12,000). Support for Implementation of Athletic Task Force Recommendations $ 10,000 Recommendations from the Athletic Task Force will require having district level monitoring of all school athletic programs to ensure that the recommendations from the task force are implemented. These funds would provide a stipend to someone to provide this service. Additional Assistant Coaches to Comply with Title IX $ 12,000 Additional assistant coaches for female sports are needed to bring the district into Title IX compliance. Women's lacrosse, volleyball, and field hockey are the only sports where the varsity and junior varsity teams have only one assistant coach position. This is one of the task force recommendations, Enhancements to Assessment, Data Management, and Information Technoloj4y Expansion of District Assessment System $ 20,000 District -wide assessment funding is currently not sufficient to support the planned testing for 2006 -07. Ten End -of- Course classes will be tested at the end of each quarter. Reading, math, and science will also be tested at three points in time for grades 3-8. This amount is needed in addition to the $99,000 already in the budget. Data Warehousing Soft♦vare $ 75,000 The district has numerous databases that hold information about programs, students, and staff The problem is that these individual databases are isolated and do not interact with each other A data warehouse stores multiple years of data from various systems and allows for analyses across software programs after the data is converted to a common software language, The district is currently reviewing possible warehousing software Entrancement of K -2 Assessment $ 14,500 The new state K -2 Assessment includes paper and pencil tests at all four quarters for all students. hr the past, there was only a need for fourth quarter tests. Funds are needed to cover both printing of the other quarter exams, and replacement DRA test kits, used either for new teachers or new positions, and required for the testing of reading. Pre -I{ and Spanish IPT Assessment Materials $ 2,450 The state requires IPT testing of students who are non - native speakers of English in grades K -12. The district supports testing the Pre -K students as well so that we can measure their growth and choose appropriate supports prior to entry to kindergarten.