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Preparing for Monday evening's budget reconciliation session, School Board members have been asking a lot of budget questions. If you want a peek at where we're looking for cuts, what various members are likely to propose, look to see what questions they're asking:
Impact of Proposed Staff Reductions (43k) (or reductions in in the increase, if you prefer)
School Board Questions Part 1 (1-28) (17k)
School Board Questions Part 2 (29-40, 42-55, 57-60, 69-72, 73) (40k)
School Board Questions Part 3 (41, 56, 61-68, 73, 75) (34k)
These are all searchable. Some highlights:
- What is the approximate amount the current budget for books would be reduced if LCPS charged parents (assume means testing would dictate those who get free lunch would also qualify for free books)?
- What would be the savings if all core subjects were required to have at least 90% of the school board target class size?
- If we eliminated ALL in-service training this year, how much would be saved from the budget?
- If each family in LCPS were to pay a $50 "supply fee" at the beginning of the school year, how much money would that generate? Also show me the same at $75 per family? $100?
- If each student were to pay a fee for participation in sports once he/she makes the team, how much money could be generate?
- If we froze the library budget for one year - no new books and no aides hired - what would the financial savings be?
6 Comments:
PLEASE eliminate in-service training. PLEASE!!!!
How can you charge a supply fee when we have Free and Public Education? How would this be ANY different from the supplies parents are obligated to send their kids in with at the start of the year?
When teachers have in service days built into the calendar what would they be replaced with? Isn't this also assuming teachers have nothing to learn this year?
It strikes me as frightening that in Ohnheiser's efforts to think outside the box he is so uninformed after these many years on the board about the limitations levied by the Code of Virginia and NCLB accreditation requirements.
Dear Mr. Stevens,
Having interactive whiteboards in our classrooms will greatly enhance instruction. I would even go so far as to say it will eventually revolutionize the way we teach. The sooner we get this valuable tool in our classrooms, the better.
Today's students have a highly developed visual learning style that the interactive whiteboard can play upon to improve their comprehension, mastery of concepts and skills, and capture their attention. I urge you to keep the installation of interactive whiteboards into our middle schools in the budget and to follow with installation in the elementary schools the following year.
Thank you for your time and consideration,
Laura Ganley
TRT Little River Elementary
I've had my issues with Bob O but I disagree with the anonymous sniping above. The election is over and there is work to be done.
It is important that suggestions raised by the public be addressed publicly. I assume Mr. O knows the answer to many of his questions but only a school board member can ask the questions. If he doesn't ask them the public will think those suggestions haven't been considered.
Let's imagine his purpose is to work on changing the Code of Virginia and NCLB so we don't have some of these limitations?
The phrase "no new books" seems frighteningly Orwellian.
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