Salem-Keizer Public Schools 2010-2011 Budget Message

Our Mission

In partnership with the community, we ensure that each student will have the essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be a lifelong learner, a contributing citizen, and a productive worker in a changing and increasingly diverse world.

Highlights

Overall, students are performing significantly better on the English Language Proficiency Acquisition (ELPA) test.

Highlights

Our reading scores continue to improve!

Elementary: Increases of 1% - 2% Middle: Increases of 4% - 6% High: No change

Highlights

Our math scores continue to improve!

Elementary: Increases of 4% - 5% Middle: Increases of 7% - 8% High: Increases of 1%

Highlights

Our writing scores continue to improve!

Elementary: Average increase of 11% Middle: Average increase of 10% High: Average increase of 4%

Highlight:

Our Graduation Rate has improved!

Highlights We have reduced the number of dropouts – significantly! From 7.2% in 2007-08 To 4.5% in 2008-09

What do you remember about last year’s budget?

Our Values

 Minimize the impact on students.

 Provide security for our employees by saving jobs as much as possible.

 Position ourselves for future years (i.e. remain financially strong and optimize student achievement opportunities).

 Move forward in a way that brings us closer together.

To balance the budget, we needed to identify cuts or reductions in the amount of ________?

$27 million

What are the three main areas used to reduce the budget?

Stop spending Reduce reserves Reduce compensation

True or False:

Class size was held harmless.

TRUE

What percentage of our General Fund is spent on Salaries, Wages and Benefits?

88%

True or False:

Class days were ultimately held harmless.

TRUE

Improve Student Achievement

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Strategic Plan for 2010-11

Continue to implement the formative assessment system, the data warehouse, and the use of student data to inform instruction.

Continue to align core standards, instructional strategies, and assessments into a coherent K-12 instructional framework.

Continue to implement the comprehensive K-12 literacy model, including the program model for English Language Acquisition.

Continue to provide focused, quality, and sustainable professional development for all staff including instructional coaching and mentoring.

Continue to develop and implement differentiated instruction for students, including planned interventions and supports.

An Effective Organization to Support Student Achievement

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Design an evaluation tool to enhance employee effectiveness and performance. 7.

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Expand the quality assurance model to include Risk Management, Security, and Student Services and continue to develop staff awareness.

Analyze the efficiency of facilities for support services to determine alignment with the district’s mission. 9.

Develop a plan to provide equity in technology that supports instructional strategies and student achievement.

Leadership Development

10. Continue to raise student achievement by implementing innovative and research based best practices associated with highly effective school districts.

Public Engagement

11. Develop a plan and tools to engage parents and citizens that encourages them to commit to actions that promote student achievement at every level, and lead to graduation for all students.

Proposed Budget: $684,277,691

General Fund; $348349 001 Internal Service Funds; $20680 102 Debt Service PERS; $23094 654 Debt Service Bonds; $30176 522 Special Revenue Funds; $74329 286 Bond Fund; $187648 126

Bond Funds: $187,648,126

Bond Funds

General Fund: $348,349,001

General Fund

The proposed General Fund includes:

• Current services • Expansion of the AVID program - $80,000 (Crossler, Walker, Sprague, and West) • Expansion (potentially) of the Career Tech program in partnership with the Salem Chamber and Chemeketa Community College $390,000 • Expansion of the contract for our formative assessment software $45,000 • Replace our World Language and CTE textbooks in secondary schools - $570,000

To balance … were recommending $7 million in cuts and use of reserves.

Proposed Reductions (2010-11)

Reduce reserves by $3.5 million by lowering the ending fund balance to 4%.

$3.5 million is still pending as we work with our employee associations – either through compensation or FTE.

Revenue Update…

Update…Reductions (2010-11)

Our funding from the ESD was lower than expected by $728,000.

We projected the May adjustment to be down $1 million. However, the May adjustment numbers as of May 17, 2010 came in higher than anticipated providing $2.0 million to next year’s revenue.

This means…

Update…Reductions (2010-11)

The ESD shortfall will be addressed with May adjustment revenue.

To balance the 2010-11 budget we are recommending $7 $5.8 million in cuts and use of reserves.

 Reduce reserves by $3.5 million by lowering the ending fund balance to 4%.

 $3.5 $2.3 FTE.

million is still pending as we work with our employee associations – either through compensation or

Ongoing unaddressed issues… Textbooks Technology Summer School Class Size

Uncertain Economic Future

According to the Legislative Revenue Office  Economic recovery is not yet on solid ground.

 Backfilling reserves and federal stimulus will be challenging.

 An increase in demand for social services will outpace the revenue available to fund the services.

 Increases to PERS based on reduced market earnings.

 We will need to spend lots of time next year preparing for the serious funding shortfall predicted for 2011-13.

Next Steps

 Public hearings set for May 25 and 26  School Board takes action on proposed budget on June 8. (Legally, we must adopt a budget by June 30).

Regardless of our challenges…

It is still about every child – every day.

Salem-Keizer Public Schools 2010-2011 Budget Message