Superintedent Boone on the WPS budget

"transforming challenge into opportunity" is the title of the presentation

"quality schools will be a force for maintaining citizens in this community"

building a budget with the student in the center: what is mandated, what do we know is important, what do we know the community thinks is important

FY10 stimulus money did what they were supposed to do...they closed the gap. But then, that's it.
"look for our own efficencies"

Now CAO Mulqueen
(does it mean something that the school presentation is printed out four to a page and the city's is printed out single page?)

21st century learning: digital age literacy, inventive thinking, effective communication, inventive thinking, high productivity

new job of educator is to build partnerships to comprehensively address the needs of our students

Now CFFO Allen
this is the same presentation (more or less?)that some of you may have seen October 15 at School Committee
FY10 spending $264 million
review of how we filled in the $24 million deficit in the FY10 budget
where did the stimulus funding go? $51 million

• $19 million in FY09 stabilization
• $15 million in FY10 to balance the budget
• $8 million in IDEA and Sped FY10
• $8 million in IDEA and Sped FY11

Title 1 and IDEA are very specific in how they may be used

School enrollment is up to 23,416 (and addition of 290 from last year); 7% of the classes in the city are over 30 students

Review of a normal year: usually the budget would go up $11 million next year (foundation formula and state funding)

FY11 cost increases: health insrances, transportation, salaries (even at no raises), sped, retirmentme, charter schools , all others: Up by $10.5 million

The state and the city will, one assumes, see school budget $15 million in deficit

all assumptions are LEVEL FUNDING; if we don't get that, it gets bigger

reveune change of $15 million, increase of $10 million= $25.9 million deficit (note: rounded!)

TO WATCH:

• state grants
• federal grants
• charter school reimubrusement
• circuit breaker

Medicaid funding: reimbursement to city may fall from $5.4 million to $2.5 million (went from bundled service to fee-for-service reimbursement method)

Legislative suggestions:

• redistribution of ch. 70
• charter school freeze (state can't afford it)
• freeze sped tuition rates
• eliminate non-public transporation mandates
• revise charter school funding
• pension schedule adjustment

FY12: we have $8.2 million, we're missing (we're using $8.2 million of stimulus next year in FY11)