SWEET HOME - The Sweet Home School Board on Monday agreed unanimously to eliminate early-release Wednesdays for the coming school year and to retool teacher prep time.

Superintendent Larry Horton said parents have been unhappy with the weekly early-release schedule at Sweet Home elementary schools, which began midway through the 2006 school year to give teachers more time for collaborative work.

Representatives from the district and the teachers' union came to a joint memorandum of understanding that allows the district to restore full-day schedules on Wednesdays. In exchange, elementary teachers will receive a 45-minute prep period each week at the end of one of the school days, while students have library, computer or P.E. time.

Individual schools will determine how to schedule the teachers, Horton said.

Board members also:

• Re-elected Mike Reynolds to the position of board chairman, Diane Gerson to vice chairwoman and Leena Neuschwander to secretary.

• Accepted a bid from McDonald & Wetle of Portland for $101,996 to do roofwork throughout the district.

• Voted unanimously to alter wording in the school district's athletic code of conduct to read that a student violating the code during his or her senior year will, not may, be ineligible to receive any schoolwide athletic or co-curricular honors. This came up because of "several" specific incidents last year, Horton said.

• Adopted a proposed resolution from the Oregon School Boards Association supporting modification of the double majority law. The resolution supports restoring a simple majority vote for local bond and levy measures on all November and May ballots.