School board members in the Davenport School District talked briefly during Monday night’s Committee of the Whole meeting about next year’s budget, along with the current $7.6 million in state funding cuts they are dealing with.
Next year, school officials are saying there’s a good possibility the state will not increase in funding and may instead hand down further reductions.
In its budget planning, Davenport board members asked administrators to develop a list of general fund expenses, broken down into three categories: core services, standard services and enhanced services.
Core services are necessary expenses that allow the district to meet federal, state or local laws. Standard services go above what laws requires and have become standard offerings. Finally, enhanced services are not required but enhance district services.
Board members will use the list, which is far from being finalized, as they prioritize funding for next year’s budget.
The board asked administrators to further define the three areas. Board members will submit their input on whether the items listed under each category belongs there to the administration in the near future.
I’d be interested to hear what parents and community members think?
#1 by Firefly at November 4th, 2009
For the last two years I let the district know what I think by sending my kids to private school. They don’t do the core services well enough to even look at the added services.
#2 by Dr. Kenneth Tennant at November 8th, 2009
Shame on the Bettendorf Community School District. BMS Dean of Students, Mark Sade, manipulated and coerced a false confession from our son and the school board and superintendent says we don’t have the right to be faced by an accuser or the right to be heard. We have a signed statement from the classmate that our son was not the boy who struck him. Other witnesses attest that Mr. Sade was focused on our boy and ignored the repeated reports that it was another boy who did the deed. The superintendent refuses to correct the record and right the wrong. What sort of example are these people setting ? -Dr. Kenneth Tennant, 3935 Rolling Hills Dr., Bettendorf, Iowa
#3 by Regina Haddock Clewell at November 15th, 2009
The topic is the DCSD budget. Why is Dr. Tennant airing his grievance here? Why is Firefly taking an opportunity to rub salt in wounds? Where is the important dialog that needs to occur so that people become truly informed and engaged? Clearly, it is not happening here… wonder why?