PCSD 25 School Board Work Session 11.10.26

Pocatello/Chubbuck School District 25 school board work session, November 10, 2026 (the metadata timestamp is November 11 UTC), covered administrative reports and potential decisions on instructional materials and the former Washington Elementary property. The board received a recommendation to renew Goodheart-Willcox middle- and high-school health materials for six years at $176,000; no vote was taken during the work session. A committee recommended Open Up Resources for high-school math, with professional-development and parent-support commitments; the board deferred action until the following week and discussed separate votes for high- and middle-school materials. The district said its budget covers either extending or replacing the secondary math materials. The board also reviewed a $450,000 appraisal of Washington Elementary. Acceptance was expected to come before the board the following week; discussion raised possible sale conditions, the appraisal’s lack of a separate value for the eastern land, and the need for more community and property-use review before deciding what to do with the site.

Pocatello Community Charter School reported no audit findings, a general-fund reserve equivalent to about five months of operating costs, and a decision to draw roughly $400,000 in equity from a renewed loan to add a modular art-and-music building. The district’s JROTC update described military-sciences coursework as a potential CTE-funded first step, but no program or staffing decision was made. In a separate special meeting, the board approved the presented human-resources activity; that vote was not a procurement action.