2012-2013 CRBC Final Budget Recommendations

The Citizens Budget Review Commission has presented its final recommendations to the Board of Trustees of Dallas ISD.

Read the final report as a PDF.

It has been a privilege to work with the DISD administration and fellow commission members to continue the process we began last year to review each department within DISD and make recommendations for current budget cuts, short-term goals and long-term strategies and projects.

What has been most revealing and rewarding is that as the Commission asked questions and made suggestions throughout the year the Dallas ISD Administration under the leadership of Alan King often began implementation of recommendations so as to have them completed before this final document was prepared. Thanks again go to Steve Korby and Dr. Jim Terry who were patient with our questions and forthcoming with our information requests.

In my personal opinion, the district is in a better financial position than it has been in many years. There are many struggles ahead, though, including....READ MORE

Congratulations!!

To newly elected trustees:
Elizabeth Jones, District 1
Dan Micciche, District 3 and
Bernadette Nutall, District 9
DFPE is looking forward to working with you in the coming years.

Proposed budget for the 2012-2013 school year

The Dallas ISD Board of Trustees has received the first budget proposal from district administration for the 2012-13 school year. The budget reflects that the district will receive $100 million less from the state due to cuts from the Legislature during the 2011 session. Key points of the budget include:

Consolidating 10 schools and opening 5 new schools.

Adjusting the staffing ratio for Pre-K through 4th grade from 22:1 to 24:1.

Restructuring Custodial Services to save $10 million dollars during 2012-2013.

Reducing Legal Services fees by approximately $2 million dollars.

Adding full day Pre-K.

Assigning Pre-K Teacher Assistants were assigned at a ratio of 1 per teacher.

In addition: the following programs are recommended to meet the board's priority of offering a variety of opportunities to engage students in a challenging and rigorous curriculum:

Funding International Baccalaureate programs at J.L. Long and Harry Stone Middle Schools

Funding Early College High School at Samuell High School

Funding dual language program extension to include middle school grades at Rosemont Elementary

Funding the expansion to tenth grade at A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School

Funding the expansion to tenth grade at Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy

Funding increase for seventh grade athletics

The board of trustees is scheduled to vote on the 2012-13 budget at its regular meeting in May.

Download the Proposed DISD Budget v2.6 as a PDF

Budget Review Commission Update: Recommended Changes to DISD Custodial Services Department

At the April 2, 2012 CBRC meeting, L & S Associates provided us with two very well-researched options for a complete reorganization of the Custodial Services Department. (Begins on page 22 here, http://budgetreview.org/Portals/0/
documents11-12/meeting8/CBC-DRAFT-040212.pdf). Option One featured a reduction from 998 FTEs (Full Time Employees) to 901 and a lowering of the average wage from $15.08 to $12.50 combined with a regorganization of the management structure and a rescheduling of custodian hours especially during the night shift would yield an estimated savings of $9,026,335. Reducing summer staffing by 25% for six weeks and lowering the starting wage from $9.25 to $8.00 per hour (there is almost NO turnover in custodial ranks) would save an additional $943,035 for a total estimated... READ MORE

TASBO 2012 Budget Ideas

Ideas for generating revenue and cutting expenses gathered at the 2012 Texas Association of School Business Officials Budget Academy Meeting

 

March 6, 2012 - U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection includes DISD

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Contrary to 17 out of 20 of the nation's largest districts, DISD pays teachers more in schools with the highest enrollment of African American and Hispanic students -

February 15, 2012 - Draft: Dallas ISD 2012-2013 District Improvement Plan

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Teacher Evaluation System Update

View Teacher Evaluation System Update - 884K PDF

School Ratings, 2012 Trustee Plan, DISD Check Register

• DISD AEIS school ratings were released July 29, 2011. The number of Exemplary schools fell from 63 to 30 and the number of Academically Unacceptable campuses jumped from 15 to 33. View the DISD results summary as a PDF.

• View the slideshow (below) or Download the 2012 Trustee Focus Plan presented by President Dr. Lew Blackburn at the June 23rd, 2011 Board Meeting. The document proposes a new Committee Structure, the continuation of the public Budget Review Commission and the creation of several new public commissions including: Blue Ribbon Education, Star Employee, Communities Relations and District Enhancement.
  
  

• Special report: Check register reveals extravagant spending at Dallas ISD
  Unfortunately most of these articles are behind the DMN pay wall. However, the database of the DISD check register is located HERE.