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The goal for SUSD on Tuesday night is to make some difficult decisions regarding the budget cuts. Monday is Feb. 15 — one month before the deadline for noticing teachers who are subject to being laid off.
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SUSD Live — Board comments
Jose Morales: Condolences to the Johnson family. “When do we as a community say, enough is enough. It is time we stand up for our communities and send a message to these criminals that we are watching that you are no longer in our community causing havoc.”
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Prayer vigil planned before SUSD meeting
People and Congregations Together and Greater White Rose Organizing Church of God in Christ are organizing a “save our schools prayer vigil” to be held from 6-6:45 Tuesday evening at the SUSD district office, where the board will be meeting. The event is a response to the looming budget cuts affecting school districts around the [...]
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Tuesday’s SUSD budget meeting will be held at Franklin High (agenda below)
SUSD’s board meets the next four Tuesdays. The big issue will be the $28.5 million in budget cuts.
Anticipating that there will be a great amount of public interest, the next three meetings will be held in high school auditoriums.
Tuesday’s meeting will be at Franklin. The Feb. 9 meeting will be at Chavez. The Feb. 16 [...]
SUSD Live — Board meetings will move to the high schools
The board is considering moving the four February board meetings to the comprehensive high schools. The district says it will cost $2,700 a meeting to hold the meetings at the remote venues. But it would allow for larger audiences at the meetings that will determine what SUSD cuts from its budget.
Vaczovsky said sound equipment would [...]
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SUSD Live — Going a bit deeper on class-size reduction
There was much talk tonight about the possibility of dramatically increased class sizes at the K-3 level in SUSD in 2010-11. Intuitively, it makes sense to keep classes small: The fewer students there are in a class, the more attention each student receives, and the better they will do. Right? Researchers have indeed found a [...]
SUSD Live — Budget proposal includes a postponement of future pain
The SUSD administration’s proposal for cutting $28.5 million (or is it $31.8 million?) from its 2010-11 budget includes millions of dollars in savings that would be realized via temporary means.
The administration is proposing to use $5 million in remaining federal stimulus funds in 2010-11. It also is proposing to take advantage of temporary flexibility that [...]
SUSD administration’s proposal for cutting budget goes public
The season of pain for school districts is upon us. SUSD needs to cut $28.5 million from its 2010-11 budget, and this morning, the administration released a list of its proposals on the district Web site. It ain’t pretty, not that anyone expected that it would be.
Check it out for yourself, including Interim Superintendent Steve [...]
Lincoln holding information session on budget at 5 p.m.
Here’s the agenda. LUSD has said it’s looking to cut about $5 million from its $60.6 million budget for 2010-11. All of the districts are starting to rev up.
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