Kuna School District to hold alternative school public forum tonight

Tonight at 7 p.m. the Kuna School District will be holding a public forum at the Kuna Middle School library to discuss plans to build an alternative high school to serve the Kuna community. Childcare will be available at the middle school for parents who want to attend the forum.

The district is looking at building the alternative school on the northwest corner of the current Kuna Middle School property, according to Jay W. Hummel, Kuna’s Superintendent of Schools

The school will provide a more flexible course of study for high school students within the Kuna district. In the valley, alternative high schools have offered smaller class sizes, giving teachers the opportunity to spend more time one-on-one helping students who are often over-looked in the more traditional high school due to large class sizes.

With the addition of an alternative high school, Kuna will be joining the ranks of other local communities such as Meridian (Meridian Academy), Nampa (Alpha I), and Boise (Fort Boise, Mountain Cove, and Booth Memorial).

Read the Kuna Melba News next week for a follow-up story on this event.