In a message dated 9/3/2004 6:27:00 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I guess my point is this. . . providing an enrollment number at anytime is providing a number which may change slightly by the next day. And, particularly at the beginning of the school and even more so with this school year starting before Labor Day, providing an enrollment number on day one would not provide an accurate number. >> What you seem to concerned with is the validity of the numbers rather than the accuracy of the numbers. An accurate number may not be a valid number for some purposes. As far as I know, funding from the state is based on the number of students who are enrolled and attending classes on a particular day in October. The schools don't get money for students who are not in school on head count day, but show up other days. It is possible to provide an accurate number of students who are enrolled and attending day 1 of school, day 2, etc. If the district now has an E counting system (E as in electronic or Email perhaps?), and everybody is correctly counting heads and inputting the data, the head office has daily attendance figures and useful breakdowns of those figures by the end of each day. Decisions about cutting teacher positions due to lower than expected enrollment are usually made within the first few weeks of school. The E count system will probably speed up that decision-making process. -Doug Mann, King Field Mann for school board www.educationright.com REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
