vision2020
Re: school district budget cuts
School districts are funded based on ADA, or average daily attendance. This
number is the result of attendance reports submitted by teachers on specific
days during the year. When the district , and the board, talks about class
size we use ADA because class size reflects available funding. In
explaining a decrease in funding because of decreased enrollment we
naturally use ADA.
Pupils per class per day fluctuates greatly on a day by day, week by week,
or month by month basis depending on sickness, travel, school sports, and
students entering and leaving the school system. Generally speaking, a
particular class will have less students in the spring than the fall. This
is especially true for elementary classes. Often, the total number of
teachers hired in any given year is based on the enrollment we have in the
fall. but funding is based on ADA.
Speaking academically, having low student teacher ratios, or low numbers of
students in any given class is something to be sought after. Financially,
how much more are we willing to pay is the question.
John
John and Laurie Danahy
jdanahy@turbonet.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Sam M W Scripter <MoscowSam@moscow.com>
To: lmelina@moscow.com <lmelina@moscow.com>
Cc: vision2020@moscow.com <vision2020@moscow.com>
Date: Sunday, May 02, 1999 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: school district budget cuts
>Thank you, Lois, for your incisive post to the list.
>
>I agree with all you have written, and with emphasis on
>reducing class size, e.g., "actual number of pupils"
>in grade 1-3 classes.
>
>Sam Scripter
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lois Melina <lmelina@moscow.com>
>To: letters@moscow.com <letters@moscow.com>
>Cc: vision2020@moscow.com <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Date: Sunday, May 02, 1999 1:35 PM
>Subject: school district budget cuts
>
>
>>Editor:
>> As the Moscow School District board of trustees considers the 1999-2000
>>budget, it needs to make cuts in such a way as to not contribute to the
>>problem of declining enrollment that has led to the current budget crisis
>> Enrollment is declining is Moscow schools in large part because students
>>are being home-schooled or attending a growing number of private and
>>charter schools. Parents select those alternatives to the public schools
>>because they offer more individual attention, more academic rigor, more
>>discipline, and in some cases, religious instruction.
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