Trustees add books and classes, drop electives

New books and new reading classes - in exchange for fewer electives - are in store for Havre students after the Havre School Board approved a revision to the communications arts curriculum Tuesday night.

School officials at the meeting said although the revisions are few, they are a marked departure from the way reading is currently taught.

"The work that we've done represents the largest amount of instructional change that I've seen in the six years I've been here," Havre Public Schools Assistant Superintendent Dennis Parman told the board before the vote. Superintendent Kirk Miller reiterate...