Governance: Madison School Board Members Proposed 2010-2011 Budget Amendments: Cole, Hughes, Mathiak, Moss & Silveira. Reading Recovery, Teaching & Learning, "Value Added Assessment" based on WKCE on the Chopping Block

Well worth reading, particularly Maya Cole's suggestions on Reading Recovery (60% to 42%: Madison School District's Reading Recovery Effectiveness Lags "National Average": Administration seeks to continue its use) spending, Administrative compensation comparison, a proposal to eliminate the District's public information position, Ed Hughes suggestion to eliminate the District's lobbyist (Madison is the only District in the state with a lobbyist), trade salary increases for jobs, Lucy Mathiak's recommendations vis a vis Teaching & Learning, the elimination of the "expulsion navigator position", reduction of Administrative travel to fund Instructional Resource Teachers, Arlene Silveira's recommendation to reduce supply spending in an effort to fund elementary school coaches and a $200,000 reduction in consultant spending. Details via the following links:

Maya Cole: 36K PDF

Ed Hughes: 127K PDF

Lucy Mathiak: 114K PDF

Beth Moss: 10K PDF

Arlene Silveira: 114K PDF

The Madison School District Administration responded in the following pdf documents:

• AA-1LegislativeLiaisonRESPONSE.pdf
• AA-2CommunityEngagementandOutreachRESPONSE.pdf
• AA-3MSCRAdultParticipationFeesRESPONSE.pdf
• AA-6BuildingServicesReviewofOrgandOperations RESPONSE.pdf
• AA-10BoardofEducationSalariesRESPONSE.pdf
• AA-11SuppliesandMaterialsBudgetsRESPONSE.pdf
• AA-12ExpulsionNavigatorPositionRESPONSE.pdf
• AA-13ConferenceTravelBudgetsRESPONSE.pdf
• AA-17StrategicPlanSchoolForestRESPONSE.pdf
• AA-22AthleticsRESPONSE.pdf

Much more on the proposed 2010-2011 Madison School District Budget here.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 25, 2010 4:23 AM
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