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Parents raising funds to rehire 3 charter teachers
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Business minds care about balance sheets. Teachers care about kids and make do with the funds that are available.
The last 100 years of public education has been good for our country. Lets not screw it up so some businessmen can have more money and power.
At the end of the year, teachers are still going to be let go. In the meantime, we have elementary teachers at the school teaching full classes, while middle school teachers are being paid full time salaries, yet only teaching about half the time with very small classes. Absorbing the 6th grade back into the middle school would help rectify this disparity and make it more fair for the wonderful elementary teachers.
btw, regarding the "Parents Bailout" post: the board members are all volunteers and receive ZERO compensation. They also have children who attend the school.
I wish that the MVA parents and the State Charter School Board would hold the current board responsible for the $250,000 over budget that they are trying to solve by RIFing 3 teachers. I still don't see how 3 teachers are making and using budget money that equals $250,000. The students are still going to be taught so the budget will still be used, what other cuts are they/will they make to equal $250,000? And will the BOARD ever take responsibility for their oversight in the current year's budget? Or will they continue to blame the administrator and force her into resignation at or before the end of this year?
Make the current board take responsibility for their oversights in the budget, make those that served on last year's board take responsibility for over spending. Make sure that the board and school are keeping spreadsheets of every dollar in and out, and that they are looked at at least once a week so that this kind of "mess" doesn't keep happening.
I would also look into changing the by-laws so that the board is more elected by parents then appointed by the board or administration. Openings in an elected seat should be filled by election, not, as is done currently, by appointment.
So is it some kind of insider's club? Are they investors in the development? How does all this equal public service?
what are parents thinking they are going to get when they send their kids to a charter school?
The people with their noses in the air want to appear better than others but not pay for it.
Well now they are paying for it and so are their kids.
Charter schools are the biggest joke ever played on the Utah public
File suit in district court and have them removed due to breach of trust. Now you have over $40K in dontations..and get your school back.
And this is good government?
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Why do they want to be a k-8 school? The sad fact is that they feel like they need to expand to fill the seats. If they don't fill the seats they can't pay the lease on the edifice they built. The building is beautiful enough to be the city hall in a much larger town.
The sad fact is that it's not city hall, and Alpine isn't a big city. Alpine is about 7 square miles and probably has less than 15,000 people. There is very little in the way of tax base.
MVA was built on the idea that the seats would be full because the district schools in Alpine were inadequate and poorly run. On the contrary, they're among the best in the state academically and financially.
School choice exists in Utah. For the OVERWHELMING majority (80%+) district schools are the schools of choice. The sad fact is that because of decisions made by the MVA board, MVA is not a school of choice. Spoiling the sixth grade for 120 kids won't change that.