State sets deadline for HPS to compensate colony schools

About four months after two local Hutterite colonies filed complaints in Helena accusing Havre Public Schools of shorting them tens of thousands of dollars in federal Title I funds, the state education office has confirmed the error and given HPS a deadline to compensate for it.

The East End Colony school administrator who filed one of the complaints said he is not yet satisfied, while the Hilldale Colony school administrator who filed the other declined to comment until a meeting with the state Office of Public Instruction later this month.

In letters sent last week to the Hilldale and East E...