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Post by gatordog on Feb 26, 2010 13:29:31 GMT -5
Lets compare cost reduction of closing an ES to across-the-district class size increase.
Assume avg class size of 30 students. So 30,000/30 = 1,000 teachers.( EDIT: but this does accurately not reflect 204's student:teacher ratio which the district stats put at 18:1)
Incr avg class size by 1: 30,000/31 = 970 teachers.
This would elimate 30 jobs: 30 x $50,000 per job (a guess) = $1.5 mil cost reduction.
Here is the interesting thing to me: Is closing an ES about the same cost reduction as district-wide class size incr of approx one student/class?
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Post by gatordog on Mar 11, 2010 13:05:29 GMT -5
www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=361214Official: Dist. 204 cuts may be 'unprecedented' By Justin Kmitch | Daily Herald Staff Indian Prairie school officials have circled Monday, March 22, on their calendars.... They have a date with fiscal reality. By the end of that school day, the district will have notified nontenured teachers who won't be returning next year........ Later that evening, board members will discuss the administration's plan to reduce next year's spending by another $12 million. I though more about magnitude of possible layoffs to address this budget gap. A background comment: I strongly hope that any teacher job cuts can be kept to an absolute minimum. I am very worried about the classroom impact of the drastic budget reductions we are facing. Looking at the disctrict report card, we now have a student: teacher ratio of 18:1. ipsdweb.ipsd.org/uploads/SchoolReportCards/2009/District.pdfSo for 29,000 students, we have ~ 1611 teachers. Lets assume typical teacher salary & benefits of $60,000 / yr (those with less or no tenure estimate?) So, here is the estimate budget reductions strictly from increasing student:teacher ratio
incr by 1: 85 jobs lost (5%) , $5 mil budget reduction incr by 2: 161 jobs lost (10%) , $10 mil budget reduction incr by 3: 230 jobs lost (14%) , $14 mil budget reduction
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Post by warriormom on Mar 11, 2010 18:47:07 GMT -5
We should expect Administrative pay cuts as well as teacher layoffs! I wonder how many teacher jobs could be saved if our Super and her staff took a cut in pay like most of the private sector has done??
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