|
GOAL: Address declining
student population and reduce expenditures to bring about a balanced budget
for 2001-2002.
|
|
RELATIONSHIP TO DISTRICT/
SCHOOL GOAL: Secure adequate human and fiscal resources and allocate them
to fulfill our mission.
|
|
Task Force Goals
- Define and clarify
the following issues: balance of student population and class size guidelines,
equity of socio-economic demographics, Title I eligibility, projected
enrollments, transportation needs, efficient and economic space utilization
for needed programs and services, balanced budget.
- Develop multiple
alternatives for establishing school residential boundaries that address
the following: grade configurations, class size projections vs. enrollment
projections, boundary descriptions, demographic comparisons, Title I
eligibility comparisons, transportation implications, potential cost/savings.
|
|
WHAT?
What
actions need to be taken to complete the task?
|
RESULTS?
What
data or documents will indicate closure or success for each action?
|
TIMEFRAME?
When will each action be conducted?
|
WHO?
Who needs to be involved
with each action?
|
RESOURCES?
What
tools/strategies need to be collected, developed or organized to complete
the task?
|
|
Identify specific
concerns that need to be addressed in the boundary study—what exactly
do we need to fix?
|
- Annotated listing
of issues that need to be considered when establishing school boundaries,
including those that may not have been listed in the charge.
|
October – November
2000
|
Committee
Principals
SILTs
Finance Cmte
DILT Pre-K Task Force
Title I Coordinator
SpEd Coordinator
|
Needs assessment
strategies
Reports of data needed
for charge
Understanding of
Edulog software as related to charge
|
|
Identify the available
resources, e.g., facility space, busing capability, staffing levels, etc.
|
- Annotated maps
of all school buildings showing available classrooms for regular division,
special education, exploratory curricula, as well space for various
support services.
- Projections of
budget changes 5 years into the future.
|
October – December
2000
|
Committee
Finance Cmte
Business Ofc
Ass’t Sup’t
Title I Coordinator
SpEd Coordinator
Director of Facilities
Architects
DILT Pre-K Task Force
|
BOE decision between
2 strategies for reducing costs:
Program remains intact
while class size rises, or
Class sizes remain
small while program offerings are reduced.
|
|
Project space needs
in terms of regular division and resource special education students,
special education instructional students, rare special education populations,
e.g., CBI, OT/PT, pre-K program, community partnerships, etc.
|
- Enrollment projections
for all identified groups of students.
|
January - February
2001
|
Committee
Business Ofc
Ass’t Sup’t
DILT Pre-K Task Force
|
Strategy for housing
SpEd and support programming equitably across district.
Definition of "Wee
Wilson" and its hosing needs.
|
|
Develop criteria and
process for evaluating alternatives.
|
- Description of
criteria and steps to be used in evaluating alternative proposals.
|
January – February
2001
|
Committee
|
Master Edulog software
tools to be used in evaluating the alternatives.
|
|
Develop multiple alternative
proposals.
|
- Description of
multiple alternatives, including effects upon the identified criteria
|
March 2001
|
Committee
Junior High Faculty
DILT Pre-K Task Force
|
Edulog software models
of the alternatives, complete with analysis of criteria.
|
|
Evaluate and select
alternative proposals to present to superintendent.
|
- 2+ recommendations
annotated with +/è for each.
|
March – April 2001
|
Committee
|
Rationale for choosing
among alternatives.
|