A Little Analysis of the Suggested Cuts

I spent time on Tuesday night crawling through the suggested cuts, here's what I found:

  1. Class Sizes will increase across the county. The Superintendent says that this will result in mixed-grade classes at some schools.
  2. Two thirds of the positions cut are teachers or teaching assistants
  3. The cost of living increase was eliminated, cutting the requested pay increase in half
  4. 50% of the cuts are salary cuts and elimination of teaching positions
  5. 50% of new teachering positions planned for next year were cut
  6. The average salary of a cut position is under $50K

I already have a list of changes I want to see to this proposal. I will wait until after tonight's public input session before finalizing that list, and I will write more about those in the coming days.