Tuesday, March 01, 2011

School Budget Cuts: Pflugerville ISD

I ran across a potential budget cut list from Pflugerville ISD with lots of details. Click here to view the document.

Some items that caught my attention:

  • Reduce budget by $1.8 million by moving high school to a block schedule and increasing class size to 30 students (cuts 36 teachers)
  • Eliminate one athletic coordinator at each high school, reducing budget by $150,000
  • Move middle school to a six period day and have a teacher to student ration of 1:28, eliminating 25 teachers and reducing budget by $1.25 million
  • Eliminate 10 elementary school teachers and increase class size at all grades, reducing budget by $500,000
  • Outsource grounds and custodial staff, for a budget reduction of $1.5 million 
  • Eliminate assistant directors of human resources and special education, reducing budget by $150,00
  • Eliminate one assistant superintendent position, reducing budget by $110,000
  • Eliminate multiple technology positions

Possible sources of new revenue: increase average daily attendance, increase enrollment in career and technology education programs, operate an after school childcare program at elementary schools.

The full list is worth a look, to get an idea of how every school district in Texas is looking at drastically reducing their budget.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

well i am only in middle school and i think having one less class effects lerninig im an avid student and having to chose between my favrite classes is hard i know that budget cuts might be good for our economy but did you thing about whats going to happen?
enen though it might sound good think just take a moment and think about whats going to hapen so please take what im saying into consideration.i love school and i am not goimg to let this happen.:)