Elementary and Middle School Principals Budget Considerations

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Elementary and Middle School Principals Budget
Considerations

• School Committee Meeting 5/14/2009

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Reduction Considerations

• 1. Six teachers Gr.45 ( due to Class size
  expanded to 30)
• Projected Savings 270,000.00
• Associated estimated insurance deductions
• from above 60,000.00
• Class Size change Kindergarten up to 20
  students, Gr. 1-3 up to 25 students, Gr. 4 5
  will go up to 30 students.
• Middle School No change

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Reduction Considerations

• 2. One encore teacher due to the above action
• Projected Savings- 45,000.00
• Associated estimated insurance
• deductions from above 10,000.00

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Reduction Considerations

• 3. Consolidation of schools
• Projected Cuts- Feeder School
• 150, 000.00
• JGW moves to Nettle and JGW becomes Kindergarten
  Center ( this would allow for consolidation of
  Kindergarten classes and Sped classroom expansion
  when needed)
• Projected Savings are 155,000.00
• (Merger would eliminate Principal 90,000,
  guidance 50,000, ESP 15,000.)

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Reduction Considerations

• 4. Cuts from SC meeting on 5/6/09
• Projected Savings - 542,593.00
• These are the line items already cut from the
  budget

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Reduction Considerations

• Encore Options
• Art
• Music
• Physical Education

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Reduction Considerations

• Option 1
• Stays the same
• 45,000.00 cut ( due to the Cut of the Grade 4
  and Grade 5 teachers)
• 10,000.00

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What does Trimester mean?

• Trimester encores will allow for
• Improve delivery of services. Each trimester
  students will get one of the following Art,
  Music or Phys Ed
• Save an additional encore teacher due to reduce
  need for itinerants and travel time.
• Better continuity of instruction. You would
  students every day so you are able to give
  homework, do projects, etc. When instruction is
  spread out 2x a week students forget to bring
  what they need and forget what was discussed in
  the last class. There is a lot of time on spent
  re-teaching and re-explaining.
•  You get to know students better because you have
  them everyday and have only 1/3 of the student
  load at a time
•  Grade Level Team is able to include in more
  integration of Frameworks.
• More time for struggling student to actually turn
  a tri-mester grade around.  With the quarter
  system by the time marks close and progress
  reports go home most students will only have
  about two-three weeks to turn around low grades. 

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Reduction Considerations

• Option 2
• Reduce encore by half ( one period per week
  instead of 2 periods)
• Go to Trimesters
• Projected Savings is 810,000.00
• Associated estimated insurance deductions from
  above 180,000.00
• Savings with P.E supplies 3500.00 (Intramurals
  are protected)
• Savings with Music supplies 6000.00

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Reduction Considerations

• Option 3
• Common Planning Time
• Projected Savings- 1,969,000.00
• Associated estimated insurance deductions from
  above 360,000.00
• Savings with P.E supplies 6000.00
• Savings with Music supplies 10,000.00
• Change in day Teachers could come at 820 to 9am
  for prep and students could come at 9am for
  school day.
• No Art, Music or Phys Ed.

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Reduction Considerations

• Projected Savings Totals From Lines 1 - 4
• 270,000.00 insurance ( 60,000)
• 45,000.00 insurance ( 10,000)
• 150,000.00
• 542,593.00 ________________
• 1,007,593.00 insurance ( 70,000)
• See next slide for totals with Encore Options 1-3

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Reduction Considerations

• Option 1 55,000.00 1,007,593.00
• 1,062,593.00
• Option 2 999,500.00 1,007,593.00
• 2,007,093.00
• Option 3 2,345,593.00 1,007,593.00
• 3,352,593.00

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Reduction Considerations

• School Committee Guiding Principles for
  enrollments
• Look at every option.
• class size
• Support teachers in classrooms especially in the
  earliest grades.
• Maintain lower class size in grades K, 1, 2, and
  3.
• Maintain level service in middle school
  enrollments.
• Develop options with the understanding that the
  lowest class sizes may not be what we consider
  ideal.
• Maintain progress in achievement.

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