Will the Board Revisit the Evening School?

As I pointed out in a recent blog post, the cost analysis for the Evening School was lacking.  It showed a hefty potential profit for the District, but it failed to reduce that profits by significant costs for the staff time to plan it and run it.  It also seemed to understate costs for utilities [...]

It’s Easy to Show a Profit If You Omit Certain Expenses

At the June 4th School Board meeting, a presentation was made to form an Evening School for adults to take classes such as Bus Tours, Yoga and Ceramics.  The public was not made privy to the documentation that night — it was not included in attachments posted to the CRSD website in advance of the [...]

Complete Minutes with Attachments Not Available to the Public for Months after Meetings

At the most recent Board Meeting, August 20th, I spoke out against a systemic failure of having the official complete minutes available to members of the public to review in any semblance of a timely manner. Board Policy 006 states in part: The official minutes (containing the full context of all resolutions and addendum items) [...]

How About Some Useful Details in the Minutes?

The minutes of Board meetings do matter.  It’s been said on more than one occasion that these are the sole official records of the meetings.  Even videos of the minutes do not serve as an official record in terms of legal basis. And you could tell how much they matter by the actions of Jerold [...]

More Staff and Supplies Than Needed?

During the Board meeting June 4th, a presentation was made by a member of the administrative staff about starting an evening school.  In response to some questions about who would organize it, this gentleman said that the work he’d been doing with the “Classrooms of the Future” grant was wrapping up.  So he said he [...]

This Is the Time to Add an Evening School?

The District has been going through all kinds of machinations to reduce costs, such as zero-percent contract renewals (for contractors, not for teachers), reducing maintenance, cutting supplies by 50% and so on. So one can ask — is this really the time to proceed with starting an Evening School for adults?  That’s what the Administration [...]