I pulled my blog from yesterday, because I think my main point got lost in too much unnecessary rhetoric. Basically, I would like to see the School Board support efforts to develop multi-year education funding plans for Fine Arts Education and extracurricular competitive sports. I would like to see the School Board be equitable in their cuts and help transition to a mix of public/private financing if that is needed in the future. I don’t see any reason to whack at or eliminate one program vs. another – it’s disruptive and unnecessary and plans cannot be made.
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The financial pie is big enough. It just has to be divided up better. Two minutes of thinking resulted in the following.
1) Return to administrative/pupil ratios from 10-15 years ago
2) Cut Reading Recovery positions in half and require RR teachers to, gasp, teach 2 kids at a time.
3) Cut the copy room budget (paper) by 20 percent
4) Modest 3 percent cut in every departments operating budget. Easy to do if you try.
I likely just trimmed about a million in waste without affecting education a bit. Now there is plenty for art, music, sports, G/T, etc….
It’s time to stop dancing around this stuff by always pointing to the lack of money. For goodness sakes, we’re drowning in it.
rcs
Posted by: reed schneider at February 18, 2007 06:00 PM
Please excuse my confusion, but what was the “unecessary rhetoric” that caused you to pull your blog entry.
rcs
Taking too much space to make my point, so I edited myself.