Looking over tonight's agenda for the MDUSD board meeting, the following are on the block to be cut...
All custodial supervisors.
1 elementary PR Prep teacher.
Reduce High School VPs to two.
3 custodians.
4th and 5th grade music.
9th grade sports (keeping varsity and junior varsity and the hope that coaches' salaries will be paid by parents.)
High School Athletics which will save $721,400.
Increasing the stipend to $300 per month for those teachers declining medical coverage.
Reducing the general fund for curriculum by 80%.
Reducing all Special Education (as allowable by law.)
Consider school closings (would save $460,000 per site.)
Eliminate 50% off the Peer Assistance and Review program and
50% off the Beginning Teacher Support program (BTSA.)
Increase staffing ratios at all school levels.
These items will be discussed tonight, although the actual decisions may be at the next board meeting.
And if you want a reason to approve the parcel tax, this is just the start....
You can WATCH the MDUSD Board Meeting live HERE, read the AGENDA HERE of use Google is you need a good prayer site.
MisterWriter
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none of that was on the agenda I read for tonight's meeting.. i will look again.
Start reading on page 24....
page 44 is the start of the cut list, but on page 4 is the list of what they are considering tonight. They can do anything they want of course, but it was my understanding they will start the next round required of this new 8 million problem next meeting. But I could be wrong..
Well that is just semantics, Cathy. With another 8 million to cut, whether tonight is a discussion or a cut, the axe is raised and the axe will fall. Even if the parcel tax passes, it will not help this year's cuts!
I read the agenda regarding the potential list of cuts and find the variation in tone very interesting. The potential impact for 4th and 5th grade music is written so simply and objectively, yet there is such hysteria when reporting the impact for high school athletics! If just percentages of potentially impacted students were used for comparison, I'd bet that the percentages between music and athletics would be very similar. I think that it is rather manipulative of MDUSD to be so inconsistent in the reporting style of that potential cut list.
Hi! I've been keeping a close eye on this as well, from the perspective of a parent with a (very expensive) child in special education. There is no way for the board to solve this problem, I agree. And we can't locally tax ourselves out of it. Nor should we, this local approach creates terrible disparities throughout the state. The solutions have to come from the state and the feds. Compulsory education is a federal law, so is special ed. It is time they stepped up to the plate and funded these noble mandates in order to bring the vision of education as a level playing field into reality.
Gina (specialedinsider.blogspot.com)
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