--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <oakdorf@...> wrote:
>
> dan...I don't believe in "closing" the schools. Just address fairly:
> As was in the press:
> ....................................................................
> a) The state auditor's report, which covers the period July 2009 to December
> 2010, ........ The Asbury Park School District continues to have the highest
> per-pupil expenditures among the 31 districts formerly known as the Abbotts.
> In 2009-10, the cost per pupil was $26,782.
>
> b)The estimated cost in 2010-11 was lower, but still about $5,600 higher than
> the 2009-10 Abbott district average.
>
> c) While enrollment was declining nearly 40 percent over the last decade,
> costs were climbing, in no small measure because staffing was reduced only 13
> percent.
>
> d)Asbury Park's student-to-teacher ratio was 8.7 students to 1 teacher the
> second-lowest ratio among the Abbott districts. The state average is 12.4 to
> 1.
>
>
> e)The district also is top-heavy with administrators about double the state
> average for K-12 districts.
>
Absent the soci0-economic issues, there is definitely water leaking somewhere.
This is coming from the father of a NYC public school teacher. I am pro
teachers. But there is something amiss here in the school administration.
Witness the recent attempt to stack the board with relatives. Good meaning
folks on the board in recent years got thrown off, met with opposition,
obstacles put in there way etc. Thank god the state appointed monitor is
overuling these people. We can send them to other districts ( nj school
districts are a f&cking joke in the first place) and pay them their going rate
per pupil. We'd save money and have he same results.
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