vision2020
Re: School District Cuts
Any time a budget is evaluated, judgements need to
be made. I do it every time I balance my checkbook and evaluate my own
budget I understand that depending on how a person interprets the
catagories in a budget will have a great influence on the published cumulative
numbers. I also know that in certain cases ( I am not
implying anything about the Moscow schools as I do not have sufficient
information) the school budgets the definition of what a teacher is (from a
budget standpoint) creates controversy. Is an administrator a
teacher? Some would argue yes if the administrator is a certified
teacher. I would argue no, unless the administrator is actively involved
in classroom teaching on a daily basis. This 'what is a tearcher' question
is a red herring. Why? In my opinion, if you ask the public if the school
budget for teachers should be cut, the answer would be no. If you ask the
same public if the school budget for administration should be cut, they would
answer yes. This is incentive for administrator to move as much of the
budget in to 'teachers' (including themselves) as possible. This creates
an incentive for as much budget to be lumped into 'teachers' as
possible.
I believe that in order to really understand the
'real' budget, a person would have to know what each person on staff really did
while at work. This is really hard for the public, and a trusting public
is really hard to come by when revenues are shrinling and budgets are
tight,
I would appreciate any information you could
provide.
Thanks in advance,
Mike Rush
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 1:52
AM
Subject: Re: School District Cuts
Mr. Rush:
As a public entity the school district provides an
annual audit of its $16 Million budget. So, there is a lot of data.
Certain judgments have to be made that can color the figures one direction or
another depending on what we're looking for. For example, does the Activities
Director's salary and benefits get added into the "administrators"
expense item, or does it go into the "activities" expense. Or both, but it
only gets added once? I will get back to you with the numbers for last year
(actual dollars spent/received) in the more general (and understandable)
categories and we'll see what additional areas you and others would like to
see.
Mike Curleyb
On 3
Dec 01, at 19:00, Mike Rush wrote:
Date forwarded: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 18:01:47 -0800
(PST)
From: "Mike Rush" <mike.rush@veriomail.com>
To:
"Ron Force" <rforce@moscow.com>,
<vision2020@moscow.com>
Subject: Re: School District Cuts
Date
sent: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 19:00:16
-0700
Forwarded by:
vision2020@moscow.com
You
stated that most $ goes to salaries... Any information on actual
budget
numbers. Where the $ go, how much is available, and where it comes
from?
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Force"
<rforce@moscow.com>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent:
Monday, December 03, 2001 5:15 PM
Subject: RE: School District
Cuts
> Here's some numbers to
think about. They come from the official Idaho
> School District
Profiles:
>
> 1990 2000
> Enrollment 2714 2624
> Ave.
Daily Attendance 2565 2471
> Elementary Teachers 74.47 82
>
Secondary Teachers 76.09 85.2
> Administrators 8 16
> Other
Certified Staff 23.1 16
> Total Certified 181.7 200.08
>
Non-Certified Staff 65.9 101.49
>
> Unfortunately, like the
university, most of the expenditures is in
salaries.
> If you have to
reduce the budget substantially, it means cutting
positions.
> There
may be a rational explanation for growing staff while enrollment
>
declines: 1990 was woefully understaffed; mandates for special
programs,
> etc.
>
> Anyone want to weigh
in?
>
> ********************************************
> Ron
Force rforce@moscow.com
> Moscow ID USA
>
********************************************
>
>
> >
-----Original Message-----
> > From: hayfields@moscow.com
[mailto:hayfields@moscow.com]
> > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001
12:40 PM
> > To: vision2020@moscow.com
> > Subject: School
District Cuts
> >
> > <snip> The very idea of cutting
one single teacher while after
> > school sports
> >
programs are kept infuriates me. The time to talk about cutting the
best
> > resource -
our very skilled and competent teachers should be
> > after
everything
> > else is gutted. <snip>
> >
Heather
> > Jordan
> >
> >
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