[Winona Online Democracy]
At 09:56 AM 11/16/00 -0600, Scott Lowery wrote:
>Craig Brooks' comment on unfunded mandates has caused me to go back and
>look at Steve's original question. Now I'm curious. As an 861 staff member,
>I haven't seen any request from the District for ideas about how they
>should respond to CFL on this.
>Could any School Board or administrators comment on whether this
>information is being gathered in some systematic way within the District?
Scott,
Indeed there is. Earlier this week, Eric Bartleson sent out a request to
all principals and school board members to start gathering information to
"(identify) mandates in state law and rule that should be eliminated as well
as those you consider unfunded", so the requests should be getting to
teachers pretty soon. Many of the identified mandates will fall into the
areas of business operations and administration, but I bet we'll identify a
lot of direct student-related issues as well. Feel free to jump right in
and start listing - most of us are salivating at the opportunity to let the
state bureaucracy know what we think of the regulations we work under. The
request from the state was as follows:
"In developing your list, please place them in one or both of the
following categories: 1) Mandates that should be repealed because they do
not promote public education, or 2) Mandates that you consider unfunded.
Please provide the statute or rule citation, if possible, for any
mandate that you note"
Ed Thompson
A timely witty saying for this week, from Dan Quayle:
"A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls."
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