Denny, in response to your question about threats of possible litigation, I merely stated what I felt to be the options given various circumstances. The devestating effects that "sunseting" comp ed would have would cause many large school distrcts and some small rural ones to not be able to provide an education. Drastic reductions in districts serving large populations that live in poverty, or have a high per capita of students at risk, would upend the system so significantly that any educational outcomes would be risk being lost in the chaos. It is my hope and that of the district that this will never come to pass. If a new system of school finance were to be put into place that had more to do with student need than political expediency, I am sure that we would be willing to work with the state law makers to find common ground that will meet the needs of our students. One provision of a bill called for the formation of a task force to study education finance. I think the work was to be done within a relatively short time frame so that findings would be available by the next year's session. However, after this dissappointing session, I have no idea what will come next. School districts are required to submit balanced budgets by June 30. At this point we have no idea what the final numbers will be and so our budgets are all based on projections that could be innaccurate. Maybe the legislature should also have deadlines that are firm for appropriations that affect those areas of the state that have a fixed deadline. Who knows what will happen? Audrey Johnson MPS BOE 10 ward _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
