Doug Erickson: On the spending side, there also are changes since June. The operating budget was predicted to be $376.5 million in June. It is now $380 million, in large part because School Board members have decided to spend about $2 million this school year of the $9.27 million in one-time proceeds the district is … Continue reading Madison School Board OKs “final” 2016-2017 budget of $448,900,000
Madison School District Administration (PDF) Salary and Wage Notes: Step Advancement (background) is funded in v3.0 of the budget. The employee handbook calls for ‘step advancement’ on existing wage/salary schedules. The cost of ‘steps’ is estimated at 1.75% of total wage/salary rates. ($4,528,492) Lane Movement (background) for Professional Learning is funded in v3.0 of the … Continue reading Madison Schools 2016-2017 Budget Update (lacks total spending….)
61 page 4MB PDF. Much more on the District’s budget, here (about $18K/student). Property tax levy and budget adoption slides. 2017-2018 Madison School District Budget Planning Document. Calendar
3.7MB 2016-2017 Budget Book (PDF): Focus on Reading in Kindergarten through Second Grade For the first time, all kindergarten through second grade teachers at our highest needs schools will meet quarterly in grade levels for professional development and time to plan and collaborate together. They will also use new computer adaptive software designed to supplement … Continue reading Notes on Madison’s 2016-2017 $421,473,742 budget
Jason Galloway: Still, the university’s athletic board approved an operating expense budget of nearly $122 million for 2016-17 at its meeting Friday, an increase of more than $8 million from the previous year. Some of the jump comes from the decision to add three new departments to the athletic department’s budget — camps and clinics, … Continue reading University Of Wisconsin 2016-2017 Athletic Budget Set To Increase By $8M+
Amber Walker: Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham said the stories about shortages were “hard to hear” after the district continued investment in staffing. “We made some (strategic choices) that we were going to invest more in teachers and shift the balance from SEAs,” she said. “I wonder if that is the pain we may be experiencing and … Continue reading Additional Property Tax Increase Discussion on Madison’s $494,652,025 2017-2018 K-12 Taxpayer Budget
Wisconsin Reading Coalition (PDF), via a kind email: As we reported recently, districts in Wisconsin, with the cooperation of DPI, have been making extensive use of emergency licenses to hire individuals who are not fully-licensed teachers. Click here to see how many emergency licenses were issued in your district in 2016-17 for elementary teachers, special … Continue reading 97 (!) Emergency Elementary Teacher Licenses Granted to the Madison School District in 2016-2017
Todd Milewski: Adding to the difficulties: Madison’s student enrollment, a key component of the per-pupil revenue formula, is projected to decline for a second straight year in 2016-17, which further trims the money that MMSD will have available to spend. “It’s really difficult to operate in that environment, that kind of revenue forecast,” said Mike … Continue reading Commentary On Madison’s $489M K-12 Budget
Doug Ericsson: She described it as “repurposing” existing money and said the approach likely will be the norm going forward. “It’s a good, positive way of working,” she said. “So rather than continually looking for more funding — kind of piling on each year, adding cost — we’re very strategically looking for the highest and … Continue reading Perhaps Re-Thinking ongoing Madison Schools Budget Growth?
Molly Beck: A majority of the state’s public school districts will receive more state general aid in the coming school year than they did the prior year, the latest state estimates show. Of the state’s 424 school districts, 61 percent — or 260 — are projected to receive more aid in the 2016-17 school year, … Continue reading 61 percent of Wisconsin’s school districts will get more state redistributed tax dollars next year
Kelly Meyerhofer: “Somebody needs to come together and lead a conversation about the positive impact UW-Madison has across the state — not just in Madison, but across the state,” Amber Schroeder, executive director of Badgers United, said about the group’s origins. The organization’s board of directors includes a long list of heavyweights: Allan “Bud” Selig, … Continue reading Data free Commentary on University of Wisconsin Madison tax, spending and tuition climate
Tom Kamenick and Libby Sobic : The ugly: Of the 20 largest school districts, eight (Eau Claire, Elmbrook, Janesville, Kenosha, Madison, Sheboygan, Wausau and Wauwatosa) would not fulfill our requests without payment. The fees ranged from $15 to, in Madison’s case, more than $1,000. According to the Madison School District’s attorney, the district does not … Continue reading Many Wisconsin school districts fail test on open records
Madison School District Administration (PDF): Project Description: MMSD has provided funding to support coursework in the content and teaching knowledge of middle school teachers of math. Toward that goal, a partnership was formed back in 2010 between the District, the UW-Madison School of Education, the UW- Madison Department of Mathematics, and the University of Wisconsin … Continue reading Madison School District Middle School Math Specialist Program
Enrollment Staff Budget Boston 56,650 9,125 $1,153,000,000 ($20,353/student) Long Beach 78,230 6,515 $1,133,478,905 ($14,489/student) Madison 25,231 4,081 ? $421M + “Construction” and ? (at least $17k/student) SIS: In 2013, Madison Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham said “What will be different, this time“? The Superintendent further cited Long Beach and Boston as beacons in her Rotary speech. However, … Continue reading Let’s Compare: Boston, Long Beach & Madison
Madison School District Slides 2017-19 Budget Premise Next biennial state budget will continue a six-year pattern of underfunding K-12 Next two years of MMSD budget development will require deeper and more disruptive budget cuts We need a more balanced approach to budget development, combining targeted cost cutting with additional revenues based on an affordable tax … Continue reading Madison’s K-12 Government Schools Seek Tax & Spending Increase (Total Spending….?)
Christ Rickert As a Madison School District taxpayer, I appreciate the School Board’s careful consideration of whether the Nov. 8 election would be too soon to ask voters to approve a referendum. When you’re an elected official overseeing a $376 million operating budget and the educational lives of some 27,000 students, you can’t take the … Continue reading Commentary on Madison Government Schools’ Tax & Spending Growth (Lacks total expenditures)
Joanne Barker UPDATED: Last week at San Francisco State University (SFSU), the only College of Ethnic Studies (COES) in the United States, was informed that next year’s budget would be cut somewhere between $400,000 and $500,000: based on this year’s budget of $3.6 million, that would mean a 13.8 percent budget cut (see table below). … Continue reading The Beginning and End of Ethnic Studies
PDF slides from a recent Madison School District Quarterly Board retreat. Readers may wish to understand “MAP” or “Measure of Academic Progress” [duck duck go SIS 2012 Madison and Waunakee results] Using MAP for Strategic Framework Milestones and SIP Metrics Feedback from various stakeholders has led us to examine the use of MAP (Measures of … Continue reading “In addition, we see that very few schools actually achieved growth improvements of 5% or more, with changes in growth generally clustering around 0%.” Slide updates on Madison’s $500M+ Government School System
Vanessa Romo: LA Unified’s ability to pay for a new teacher contract that gives the union’s 35,000 members a 10.4 percent raise — their first in eight years — relies on two factors: One, a stronger than expected boost in tax revenues from the state. And two, a solution to the systemic problem of declining … Continue reading LAUSD deal with teachers means fingers crossed for more state money