WPS plans on the budget: FY08 health insurance savings

Because $2.4 million of the money in the FY09 budget is one-time use money (it's the savings from the health insurance tax holiday), the School Administration will not use it to save positions.

However, class sizes continue to be a priority for the administration. To that end, they are saving $900,000 of those funds to address class size in September of 2008. Should class sizes be high (currently, the forecast is 29 classrooms in gr. 1-6 of 27 to 29 students), they will assign literacy tutors to assist in the classroom and bring down ratios. This also means that those are not full time positions, avaliable to be cut in 2010.

The administration plans to use the remainder of the $2.4 million to fund long-overdue textbook purchases.