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Spotsylvania school superintendent trying to prepare employees for cuts Date published: 1/18/2010
By PAMELA GOULD Before Spotsylvania School Superintendent Jerry Hill presents his proposed budget tomorrow night, he hopes to have notified every employee who would be impacted by the cuts he's suggesting. Those cuts could be anything from the loss of a job, to reassignment because a program is targeted for elimination, to a reduction in pay as a position is changed from a 12-month to an 11-month contract, according to schools spokeswoman Sara Branner. The goal is to contact "anybody whose position or salary is impacted" by Hill's proposal so that employees won't learn the news during the superintendent's televised presentation to the School Board at tomorrow's 6:30 p.m. meeting, Branner said. But nothing will be certain until the School Board approves the budget, which is scheduled to happen Feb. 8. Tomorrow night, after getting their first look at Hill's budget, board members will hold their first work session to begin evaluating it. But even after the School Board reaches consensus on a plan, the Board of Supervisors and economic conditions could force further revisions. The entire budget process is expected to take nearly four months. The School Board is scheduled to adopt the budget for the 2010-11 school year on May 10. Hill has been trying since last fall to prepare the board, employees and parents for what's coming. He announced in November that there would be no pay increases because the budget would need to be cut by $3.2 million for 2010-11. But one week ago, Hill announced cuts had risen to the $14.2 million mark based on former Gov. Tim Kaine's proposed budget. That deficit, Hill told employees and parents, meant it would be "impossible" to keep all positions in this year's budget. That news echoed like a fire alarm in a school hallway. "It's very, very grim, very stressful, a lot of uncertainty," Spotsylvania Education Association President Renee Beverly said of the mood in county school buildings. Neither Hill nor Branner would say in advance how many people would be affected by the proposed cuts. PAYROLL ISSUES The school division employs 1,650 teachers and has 3,193 people on the payroll including administrators, nurses and bus drivers. Salaries and benefits account for 87 percent of the annual operating budget, Hill has said.
Read more stories about Spotsylvania Date published: 1/18/2010
there doing a great job of covering there rears they are not doing a great job for the kids,or staff
If Hill and his cronies and the school board are doing such a great job, why is it that so many of the Spotsy teachers are sending their children to private schools?
curriculums in the US is this:
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/
here's their criteria - independent of curricula:
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/Reading/achieveall.as
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here's some national rankings:
http://febp.newamerica.net/k12/rankings/naep4read07
here's how Virginia rates:
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pdf/stt2007/2007497V
A4.pdf
finally - do NOTE the Differences in how the NAEP and VA
SOLs rate proficiency. NAEP says about 30% of Va students
are proficient - SOLs 60%
Wikipedia is an aggregator of information with voluminous
footnotes to the references - in this case he Programme for
International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide
evaluation of 15-year-old school children's scholastic
performance, performed first in 2000 and repeated every
three years.. In this case, the source is here:
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2008/2008016_1.pdf page 3 has
this: " How PISA 2006 Was Conducted" Read this report
FIRST then come back and discuss it's flaws okay?
but once a year multiple choice tesing shouldn't be the only measurement looked at for schools or for students.
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