(KLZA)-- The Falls City Board of Education approved teaching contracts for several new teachers in District 56 for the 2017-18 school year when they met Monday. 

The Board approved contracts for Audrey Pederson to teach High School Math.  Hannah Wynn will teach Elementary School.  Jessica Fischer will be an Elementary Special Education Teacher and Leigh Ann Blankenship has been hired as an Elementary Teacher. 

The Board also approved the designation of Anne Crofford as the District 56 Treasurer, retroactive to April 10. 

A resolution was also approved supporting the Principals of the Nebraska United for Property Tax Reform and Education.  

The resolution says while tax reform, which reduces the overreliance on local property taxes is necessary to ensure our tax system is fair to all Nebraska taxpayers. 

It also says that education is one of the most important investments a state can make in its people and its future. Noting low levels of state funding for education are at the heart of Nebraska’s property tax issues, not school spending.