“Nineteen districts will not be able to meet their financial obligations for the school year that just ended, or the upcoming school year, without making drastic cuts, including El Rancho Unified and Wilsona Elementary in Los Angeles County. Eighty-nine districts, including big city school systems in Los Angeles, Oakland, Santa Ana and Sacramento, are in jeopardy of not meeting their financial obligations in the school year that just ended or the two upcoming years,” according to the L.A. Times.
If the SAUSD cannot meet its financial obligations, then why did they recently bring back all their laid off administrators? They now have to keep them on the payroll for at least one year. There are still a lot of teachers laid off. Is it just me or are the folks in charge at the SAUSD completely insane?
And don’t expect improvement at the polls. I hear that MIke Gonzalez and Cecilia Aguinaga will be challenging SAUSD Trustee Audrey Noji next year. Good grief! Is that the best we can do? No wonder our lame Trustees keep getting reelected. Gonzalez by the way came in LAST in last year’s SAUSD elections.
When will the State of California take over the SAUSD – and will Superintendent Jane Russo and her board allies, Noji, Rob Richardson and Jose Hernandez end up in jail for mismanaging public funds and ruining our school district?
The SAUSD’s rating was “qualified” but a source told me that they gave themselves this rating to look as dire as possible to get more money. If they want to lump themselves into looking like the L.A. Unified then they are digging their own ditch. We know otherwise. They have plenty of money in reserve, but are holding on to it like a BANK. The district should be SERVICING CHILDREN not the leaders’ perks. They continue to rehire based upon making life easier for administrators and not providing what is best for children. Classes continue to be over 40 in secondary and over 30 in elementary, but they will have BTSA (what NEW teachers are left anyways?), Teachers on Special Assignment (test counters and principal’s errand runners making $90,000) and other “special” programs while the kids are getting lost in the shuffle as “just a number.” Parents, is this what you want for your kids? You need to start asking your board questions. How can they justify their decisions (rehiring people who are just there to make life easier for a principal aka test counters who get paid $90,000) rather doing what is best for children? Ask them why they continue to act like a BANK and NOT a school district. Yes, times are tough, but kids need a solid education especially in Santa Ana and the less kids in one room…the BETTER it will be for a student (more individual attention). We need to ask…do these people (that you rehire) work DIRECTLY with children and what is it “exactly” that they do? Test scores will be the “500 club” because they are now the “600 club” and they should be the “800 club” so let’s continue to hire people who run and get Starbucks and show up late shall we?
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http://tiny.cc/csr2 <--must read http://tiny.cc/finances
Term limits for school board members.
The district continues to fail its customers!