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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mathematically, the 20 percent of the budget that is not salaries (as you note, a lot is debt service) can’t produce enough “efficiency” to close that 3 percent gap—we have to pay the electric bills and buy supplies each year. So you can’t reduce costs 3 percent without cutting staff, which means increasing class sizes or eliminating/reducing certain types of school-based positions.

So what are you thinking in terms of cuts? [/quote]

80% of the budget is salaries?

Is this analogous to Congress screaming about what they call pork projects that in truth are like 1% of the budget because 80% is made up of Medicare, social security, and the military, which are politically untouchable? So they end up arguing over crumbs? Tell me if this is a bad analogy.[/quote]

You are correct. Anyone that says they don’t know why we spend what we spend relative to other counties should look at what drives total salary costs—number of positions and what we pay. The number of positions we have is mostly driven by classroom planning factors, the number of buildings we have, and (to a much smaller extent) the number of people in non-school positions/central admin. [/quote]

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