NO NEED TO CLOSE SCHOOLS DUE TO WORST WASTE AND POOR MANAGEMENT IN C.R. SCHOOL DIST.
SOURCES OF WORST WASTED MONEY IN CEDAR RAPIDS SCHOOL DISTRICT
Cedar Rapids school officials want to close schools rather than reallocating worse wasted money to keep them open. They don't want to reduce waste and taxes, they want to increase their salaries and benefits. Even worse, they don't care what closing schools does to student achievement.
Here is a table showing the sources of worst waste in the district, and it isn't the schools they want to close.
1.1% OR MORE OF CEDAR RAPIDS SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET SHOULD BE REALLOCATED AND USED AS NEEDED TO KEEP NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS OPEN. Source: Iowalive 5-12-11 DESCRIPTION TOTAL AMOUNT SPENT IN 2010 SOME SOURCES OF WORST SCHOOL WASTE SALARIES HIGHER THAN JUSTIFIED DUE TO TEACHER'S UNION AND TAMMY WAWRO NO OR INADEQUATE IMPROVEMENT PLANS INADEQUATE OVERSIGHT OF PROCURE-MENT OVER STAFFING Resulting From Poor Teaching Methods REMEDIAL, REWORK OR DO-OVERS Resulting From Poor Management & Poor Teachers CEDAR RAPIDS SCHOOL DISTRICT $179,877,811 $19,786,559 $8,993,891 $5,396,334 $26,981,672 $11,692,058 1.1% OF SCHOOL DISTRICT BUDGET $1,978,656 Anyone claiming to have better numbers is asked to provide them.
CEDAR RAPIDS SCHOOL DISTRICT WAS WARNED OF FALLING ENROLLMENT & WAS CRITICIZED FOR NOT HAVING A SPACE UTILIZATION ANALYSIS, BEFORE BUILDING MORE CLASSROOMS
12-3-11
Mr. Dick Fredericks served on the school district's year 2000 Facilities Task Force with community members Dr. Yang Ahn, Gary Anhalt, Connie Clark, Jim Craig, Mike Dawson, Laura Gesme, Crystal Grave, Percy Harris, Pat Marshall and Emmett Scherrmann and wisely warned them of their bogus 14% enrollment growth projection, as shown in the following chart. The committee was also given ALOT's (a group Against Local Option Sales Tax) wise chart showing the projection for a continuous decline in enrollment, which we all know has happened.
Superintendent Finch, the Task Force and school board all refused to listen. Emmett Sherrmann was very vocal in ignoring Dick's warning!
As a result, school administrators, the school board and teacher's union are now moving to close neighborhood schools and to force neighborhoods and students to suffer abuse for school district blunders.
Teacher union demands for higher pay (for teaching fewer students), more time off, smaller class sizes and resistance to removal of poor teachers serves to make matters worse.
Closing neighborhood schools to provide more money for bloated teacher and administrator pay raises makes no sense and must be stopped.
CEDAR RAPIDS SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICIALS DUPED ALL BUT THE ALOT GROUP WITH 14% BOGUS ENROLLMENT GROWTH PROJECTIONS
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CEDAR RAPIDS SCHOOL DISTRICT CRITICIZED FOR NOT HAVING SPACE UTILIZATION ANALYSIS
CEDAR RAPIDS SCHOOL DISTRICT
CLASSROOM UTILIZATION
9-28-1999 ALOT NEWS RELEASE
A LOT has now learned that the Cedar Rapids school district has 900 classrooms and 17,820 students enrolled at last known count. This averages to just under 20 students per classroom. Meanwhile, Jim Craig, a tax increase promoter, is complaining that his child is in a classroom with 27 students. In addition, Cedar Rapids school officials are claiming that more money is needed to build a new school and to add more classrooms.
These same school officials have refused to provide A LOT with their building space utilization analysis, that should have been completed and made available long before their asking for a $300 Million sales tax increase.
The questions are very obvious.
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THE SCHOOL DISTRICT'S NUMBERS SHOWED 3,134 EMPTY ELEMENTARY DESKS 6 YEARS AFTER DISTRICT FALSELY CLAIMED IT NEEDED MORE CLASSROOMS AND ANOTHER ELEMENTARY BUILDING. 6-30-06
