Schools

District 102 to Discuss $1M in Recommended Budget Cuts

Eight full-time staff positions could be eliminated under the proposal, up for board discussion Thursday night.

Five special education teachers and three classroom staff positions will be on the line when the La Grange District 102 School Board discusses $1 million in proposed budget cuts during Thursday’s meeting.

The loss of those roles would reduce district spending by $400,000 during fiscal year 2013-14, according to board documents.

Class sizes would continue to be one greater than the targets listed in the district’s policy, which are: 23 for grades K-1; 24 for grades 2-3; and 26 for grades 4-6. This would allow the district to eliminate three classrooms and three corresponding staff members.

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Four of the five special education cuts would be achieved by altering the Reading and Math Intervention Program. It is not clear from the board documents how the fifth eliminated position would factor into special education programming.

The reductions are among 18 cuts that Superintendent Warren Shillinburg recommended to the board. The following chart outlines all of his proposals.

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Recommendation Full-Time Staff Amount Tier 3 Special Education Teachers 4 $200,000 Special Education Teacher Reduction 1 $50,000 Reduce by 3 Classrooms 3 $150,000 Park Media Aide $12,000 LADSE Pre-School Screening Reduction $100,000 Digital Math & Reading Resources vs. Workbooks $75,000 Shift Medicaid Spending $75,000 Summer School Curricular Redesign $10,000 More Efficient Telephone Lines $7,200 In-House Cleaning $13,000 Lunch Supervision Efficiencies $50,000 Professional Development $40,200 Curricular Professional Development Substitutes $40,000 Conference Professional Development Substitutes $18,000 Technology/Curriculum Reductions Over 3 Years* $100,000 Equipment Holiday FY14 $100,000 Textbook Adoption Reductions FY15 $110,000 Textbook Adoption Reductions FY16 $110,000

* $35,000 per year


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