OK – as things begin to heat up, with Town Hall meetings, Interim Financial reports, current and pending budget workshops, and a variety of conflicting and confusing rhetoric from both the Board and the District, I’m about to get this BLOG rolling.
Stay tuned for regular posts about the current budget crisis and the special interest priorities that negatively effect our children, along with:
- discussions on the various proposed budgeting cuts, the ramifications to our children, and what I see as options to protect the integrity of our children s education above all else
- budgeting methodology: Board says Zero Based, District recommends Priority Based – what’s it all mean?
- unfunded mandates – what are they, what do the mean and what do they cost
- the hidden budget items including defined benefits, compensation, and health benefits along with NTE’s and internal controls
- “pink slips”
- the bi-partisan issue of Race to the Top (ARRA) money coupled with the confused state of our State: SB X5-1 vs AB X5-8.
I hope to have my promised meeting with the District financial folks soon to go through a whole host of budget questions I have and hopefully validate several concerns along with several solutions that are referenced in the Budget Book and workshop presentations.
Join me – let’s keep the conversations lively and informative, and, most important, protect our children’s education. They our the future of our Country, the future of businesses, they represent our national brain trust, and they are the future of our standing in the global sociopolitical and economical environment.
Reading suggestions:
Race to the Top and latest SDUSD Budget Workshop:
- http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=abx5_8&sess=CUR&house=B&author=brownley
- http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sbx5_1&sess=CUR&house=B&author=romero
- http://www.boarddocs.com/ca/sandi/Board.nsf/bed78c7a5382b7b98725731b0060c8db/f3d91a853375f576872576500059b151/$FILE/SDUSD%20Board%201216%20Budget%20Workshop%20REVISED%20121609%20FINAL%203.pdf
Cheers: Steve Rosen
Will detail issues directly later tonight and tomorrow. At my 9 year old BDay party. Thanks for questions. SteveR
Comment by steverosensolutionsforschools — June 2, 2010 @ 2:52 am |