District overview
Harlan Independent Schools
Funding structure, how it compares to peers, and where major projects stand.
What Harlan Independent’s current public records show
The FY2025 audit issued unmodified opinions and reported no financial-statement or major federal-program findings. Current policies restrict instructional-time device use and require procedures for responsible AI and emerging-technology use.
Auditors issued unmodified opinions
The audit reported no financial-statement findings, no major federal-program findings, and no material noncompliance required to be reported.
The FY2027 General Fund working budget uses $11.62 million in total resources
The total includes a $2.62 million beginning balance and $9.00 million in planned receipts, matched by $11.62 million in appropriations.
Jennifer Parsons’s contract runs through June 2029
The four-year contract began July 1, 2025 and sets a $135,000 base salary and 240-day work year.
Personal devices are restricted during instructional time
Policy preserves emergency, teacher-directed, teacher-authorized, and disability-law exceptions.
Emerging-technology procedures must address AI
Current policy calls for safeguards around safety, privacy, ethics, cheating, and plagiarism.
The official archive did not provide usable Board agendas, minutes, packets, recordings, or transcripts, so the page does not claim trailing-year meeting-action coverage.
Where the district stands
Major projects
FY2027 General Fund working budget
working budget publishedThe FY2027 working budget shows $11,618,503.66 in General Fund total resources and appropriations. That total includes a $2,621,496.03 beginning balance and $8,997,007.63 in planned receipts; it is a budget plan, not audited actual spending.
- The official report was generated October 1, 2026.
Funding
General Fund total resources: $2,621,496.03 beginning balance plus $8,997,007.63 planned receipts
Recent news
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