Here's the link for the complete 2004-2005 budget -- all 396 pages or by
section if you wish. I would recommend beginning with the executive summary
for an overview including pie charts showing summary revenues and
expenditures. This includes everything, however, so all the detail's there
for the whole world to see.
The guide mentioned in the previous post should be very helpful for people
to navigate this system in the future, so many thanks to the Citizen's
Budget and Finance Committee for doing this and to member Matt Flory for
posting the information.
The district's fiscal year runs from July 1-June 30, so site-based
decision-making councils (parents, staff, often a community member, and
often a student in the high schools) are in the process of updating their
Schoolwide Continuous Improvement Plans right now, and creating their school
budgets for next year. If anyone wants a primer on site-based
decision-making in our schools, feel free to contact me privately or better
yet contact your neighborhood school and sit in on one of their meetings
this spring. There you will see Site Councils making data-driven decisions
and facing awful choices about which teachers, librarians (if they still
have one!), counselors, entire programs, and so on to cut -- not primarily
because of enrollment declines, but because state funding hasn't kept up
with inflation for more than a decade -- shame on them!
As always, please contact me or Citizen's Budget and Finance Committee
member Matt Flory (see address above) with any questions.
-- Anne Carroll, St. Paul School Board
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Anne R. Carroll
Carroll, Franck & Associates
Public Involvement, Strategic Planning, Communications
1357 Highland Parkway
St. Paul, MN 55116 USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
651-690-9162 School Board: 651-690-9156
"The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice." -- Martin Luther
King, Jr.
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separate the lives you live from the words you speak." -- Paul Wellstone
"A politician worries about the next election. A true states[wo]man worries
about the next generation, and children yet unborn." - e.e. cummings
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