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School services cuts 2008
===**Miami-Dade County Public Schools is cutting jobs and tutoring while spending an inexplicable 17 thousand dollars per student per year. Please help organize the change we need to get our priorities straight. Post relevant information, materials and comments. Thank you.**===

See also:
Effective education spending: Editable wikispace to gather concerns, media coverage and research about wasted MDCPS funds. MDCPS and Education News MDCPS-UTD contract negotiations 06-29-08 meetup space

Contents of this page

 * 1) Calendar
 * 2) Mazella re. 2008-9 budget
 * 3) Tentative budget 2008
 * 4) What counties are withholding raises to their education employees due to budget cuts?
 * 5) Administrators received a substantial salary increase in January. Why not everyone else?
 * 6) Budget cuts and state funding
 * 7) Was the excuse that there is no money for raises used in Summer / Fall, 2000, 2003, 2006, and January / February of 2008 (The earlier dates were during the real estate bubble)?
 * 8) Links
 * 9) MDCPS Board Item h3, June 9, 2008 - 4 day summer work week
 * 10) Request for approval of a reduction in force
 * 11) MDCPS Board Meeting 05-21-08 Agenda Item a3.pdf
 * 12) http://www2.dadeschools.net/schoolboard/agenda/a3.pdf
 * 13) Letter from Dr. Rudolph Crew to UTD re. contract renegotiations 06-26-08
 * 14) Florida statutes require budget by September?
 * 15) UTD / MDCPS contract language

Inspector General Mazella re. MDCPS budget 2008-9
http://www.miamidadeig.org/SBreportsandreleases/0809budget.pdf

Administrators received a substantial salary increase in January. Why not everyone else?


Have salaries have ballooned for everyone else except school employees? Agreed upon MEP salaries from 2007 and the current schedule [] []

Was the MEP salary schedule was not changed until January 2008? Was the money saved minimal? []

What counties and what agencies are withholding raises to their education employees due to budget cuts?

 * Did Miami-Dade police get an 8 percent cost of living increase?

Broward** [| Broward Teachers' Union ALERT: Negotiations Tank!] "The budget left untouched about $24 million for pay increases for teachers that were negotiated as part of last year's contract, as well as $15 million in healthcare increases. A new contract is still being negotiated." [|Broward schools budget has less cash for buses, teachers - Miami Herald, July 22, 2008]

Budget cut 500 million? [|Lamberti, union agree on contract - 07/23/2008 - MiamiHerald] http://search.aol.com/aol/search?invocationType=topsearchbox.search&query=BSO+budget+cut [|BSO retiree benefits drain county dry - 07/14/2008 - MiamiHerald] [|Broward County, sheriff battle over budget cuts - Sun Sentinel, May 7, 2008] [|Broward County presses sheriff for deeper budget cuts - May 20, 2008] [|BSO may halt use of police horses due to budget cuts - Sun Sentinel, June 19, 2008] [|Broward Politics | Sun-Sentinel Blogs | County says deal rea...] County says deal reached on BSO budget ... Tuesday morning that Lamberti has agreed to meet the 7 percent cuts that other county agencies are making to pay ...
 * BSO deputies will get up to a 5 percent raise under a new contract and Lamberti will likely get the union's endorsement.**

[|Palm Beach County: Schools chief aims to protect jobs despite budget constraints - July 14, 2008, Sun Sentinel] Mark Richards, UTD lawyer, asserted that there were only about three, including MDCPS.
 * Palm Beach has not resorted to a reduction in force**

[|Board member says school spending still too high - Keysnet.com, 07-25-08]
 * Munroe County**


 * Did Clay County teachers (up by Jax) actually get a 3% raise?**

In years prior to that, did the district CONTINUALLY receive increases of 7-8% per year and every year complained they didn't get enough money? Did the state give districts .25 mills flexibility this year which allows them to shift a certain amount of money for capital construction to the operational budget? Did Mrs. Hantman was allude to this at the July Board meeting?

(see page 5) (see page 9?)

[|School Board survey about budget cuts]

Was the excuse that there is no money for raises used in Summer / Fall, 2000, 2003, 2006, and January / February of 2008 (The earlier dates were during the real estate bubble)?
Wish list: Research of board minutes for these dates Video / audio confirmation, WLRN's Mercedes Trillo for video/audio confirmation **305-995-1717**.

[|Channel 51 survey on Dr. Crew's performance] [|peytonwolcott.com] : A breaking summary of the MDCPS audit on a national level. [|United Teachers of Dade homepage] [|therealdadeschools.net (School police website)]

**Request for approval of a reduction in force**
http://www2.dadeschools.net/schoolboard/agenda/a3.pdf

Florida statutes require budget by September?
Title XIV 200.065 (subsection 1) The property appraiser conducts an assessment of all properties and sends a report to the district describing the proper method of computing the millage rate.

Title XIV 200.065 (subsection 3) The tentative budget of the school district shall be prepared and submitted no later than 24 days after certification of value pursuant to subsection (1).

Title XLVIII 1011.03 (subsection 1) Before actually adopting the tentative budget, the school district must advertise in a newspaper with the largest circulation the tentative budget, including the proposed millage levies, and graphs illustrating a historical summary of financial and demographic data.

Title XLVIII 1011.03 (subsection 5) The board shall hold public hearings to adopt tentative and final budgets. The hearings shall be primarily for the purpose of hearing requests and complaints from the public regarding the budgets and the proposed tax levies and for explaining the budget and proposed or adopted amendments thereto, if any.

UTD / MDCPS contract language
D. The terms of this Contract are for three years, provided: 1. The terms and conditions of this agreement, effective July 1, 2006, shall continue until midnight, June 30, 2009. 2. By service of written notice on the other party, prior to April 1, the health insurance provisions shall be reopened for each subsequent calendar year. 3. In the event that the percentage increase/decrease of funding per weighted FTE student provided by the Florida Legislature within the Florida Education Finance Program (FEFP) is inadequate as determined by the School Board, to fund the economic provisions of this Agreement for the 2006-2007, 2007-2008, or 2008-2009 fiscal years, UTD agrees to renegotiate the economic provisions of this Agreement for the 2006-2007, 2007-2008, or 2008-2009 fiscal years, as applicable, if requested by the School Board. During such negotiations, unit employees would continue to be governed by the current economic agreement for the applicable fiscal year. These provisions are not subject to the grievance/arbitration procedure or to litigation in any court or tribunal.

__July 30__ Rallies: 4 and 5 PM, MDCPS Board building, teachers and students respectively. [|Back In Black] http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=9438458767#/event.php?eid=25058837406

[|See United Teachers of Dade homepage]