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[quote=Anonymous]How much? Like in the ball park of $48 million spent on ESOL?[/quote]

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The FY 2013 total budget for the Advanced Academic Resource Program is [b]$9.6 million [/b]and includes 69.5 positions. 
*School-based expenditures total $8.8 million. 
*Contracted salaries for 62.5 resource
*teacher positions total $4.9 million
*hourly salaries for teacher participation in screening and selection of advanced academic students, attendance at orientation, and substitute teachers total $0.3 million.
*Employee benefits of $2.2 million include retirement, health, dental, disability, and other employee benefit
expenditures. 
*Operating expenses total $1.3 million, which is allocated to schools on a per-pupil basis
for textbooks and supplies. 
*The school-based total represents the incremental cost which applies at the
elementary level and at the three middle schools that have a sixth grade. Costs and positions for the
elementary and middle school center programs and the middle school honors program are included in the
elementary and middle school core programs because the students are being served by positions allocated
from the standard staffing formulas.
*The Advanced Academic Resource Program also includes nonschool-based funding totaling $0.8 million
and 7.0 positions. 
 -Contracted salaries for the 7.0 positions total $0.6 million. Hourly salaries total $648.
 -Employee benefits of $0.3 million include retirement, health, dental, disability, and other employee benefits
expenditures.
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ESOL cost a lot more but I see it as a more essential program however the cost is out of control and should be scaled back.[/b]

ESOL Explanation of Costs (from same link above)
The FY 2013 total budget for ESOL is [b]$83.9 million[/b] and includes a total of 877.1 positions. School-based
funding totaling $81.9 million, or 97.6 percent of total program expenditures, includes $56.4 million for
contracted salaries for 862.1 school-based teacher positions. Hourly and substitute teacher funding of
$0.6 million provides for clerical support, and funds curriculum development and periodic review of student
assessment folders to certify compliance with federal mandates. Employee benefits of $24.7 million include
retirement, health, dental, disability, and other employee benefit expenditures. Operating expenses totaling
$0.2 million include school-based instructional supplies, textbooks, tests, printing, and staff development.
Nonschool-based funding of $2.0 million provides funding to administer oversight of the ESOL program and
provides instructional support to all schools. Contracted salaries total $1.4 million for 15.0 nonschool-based
positions. Employee benefits of $0.6 million include retirement, health, dental, disability, and other employee
benefit expenditures. [b]Offsetting revenue of $13.2 million for this program is provided through state and
federal funding, resulting in a net cost to the School Operating Fund of $70.7 million. This program is also
supported by $3.0 million in Title III federal grants funding.[/b][/quote]

They also lump a lot of programs together instead of breaking them down - just to keep us in the dark I guess.[/quote]

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