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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read something very funny just now. Looked at their Sample Model Budget for region 4, year 1, for adding a minimum of 520 non-local students (the cost of local students attending the programs is not included in their figures, slide 88).

Their estimate to enact all six programs plus the other special programs to teach over 500 non-local students is equivalent to adding just ONE new teacher (70,000x4) for each of the four HS. And the added cost to taxpayers with this ridiculous assumption for just this one region is over $600,000.

What a money pit of a proposal that will only worsen inequity.[/quote]

It's zero new teachers for any of the programs.  The staffing cost is for 0.6 of a program coordinator in the first year (phases up to 1.0 over 3 years.). All teachers are assumed to be existing staff at the school, or if new staff are hired they're expecting to replace existing staff within current staffing allocations.[/quote]
Yes, my point is that their staffing projection is preposterous. [/quote]

Their staffing and transportation model and budget remain similar to what presented two months ago. BOE has two months and county council meeting notes to prepare their questions on these, yet the only question was from Zimmerman on surveying teacher’s willingness vs certificates (a good one that has been pointed out two months ago here). [/quote]
BOE’s lack of due diligence is alarming. They are not adequately prepared to assess whether the plan would actually accomplish what it purports to do. The assumptions behind the budget and staffing analysis is simple-minded like what maybe an 8th grader would put together, and their byzantine solution to inequity will make things worse.[/quote]

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