Welcome to my BLOG as a concerned parent with two young boys (4th and 3rd grade) who go to Jerabek Elementary School in Scripps Ranch.
After 5 years of watching the deteriorating economic situation with our San Diego public schools, I decided I need to take a much more active role in proactive advocacy. Having started a family later in life and as an active international business person, I felt compelled and called to get involved.
This BLOG is one of many things I am doing to try and gather information to speak intelligently about our schools and the ongoing budget situation. What a mess!! Who loses – our children are the biggest losers and stand to lose much much more if we do not unite and work together to both express our feelings, our opinions, offer suggestions, and get involved.
With this BLOG – I welcome your involvement and as we move forward, I will work hard to post relevent and pertinent information, share ideas, comments, and views, and try and provide an informative one-stop shop for information. If you have tried to navigate the webs sites of the District, you have probably become frustrated and disenchanted. I hope to help by providing the URL’s to important documents and discussions of those documents and other “hidden”issues buried deep in the details.
For starters:
http://old.sandi.net/budgetbook.pdf – The District “Budget Book” – I’m tearing through this and have many unanswered questions and the District seems disinclined to answer
http://old.sandi.net/labor_relations/bargain.html – The various collective bargaining agreements which are also referenced in the Budget Book
So – take a stand, make your voice heard, let’s get talking!!
Steve Rosen – concerned parent
