School board to discuss educational videos

Newport-Mesa school board members will discuss a plan Tuesday to provide web-based educational videos to students as part of a partnership with KOCE-TV. The station would provide the instructional videos to students at Mariners, Newport, Newport Heights, Rea and Wilson elementary schools.

The roughly $3,000 contract would keep the service in place through Aug. 30 of next year.

Newport-Mesa is also prepared to accept its second of 10 annual $250,000 checks from the Irvine Co. to fund teachers for the district’s expanded science program. Every school in the district had a science lab funded under Measure F, but the money did not cover teacher salaries.

The school board at Tuesday’s meeting will also consider continuing the 15-year tradition at Newport Harbor High School of taking students abroad for a week of school.

The school board members will also consider approving contracts, worth no more than $50,000, to provide buses for students going to sporting events or on field trips when the district’s drivers or buses aren’t available.

— Joseph Serna