Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Budget may pinch custodial staff out of local schools
Monday's school board workshop has sent the district in search of an outside firm to maintain the school district buildings and grounds. That consensus has the support staff worried about lost jobs. We are working on this story. If you have an opinion on this method and other potential methods for saving the district money, send us a letter to the editor, chronicle@jasnetworks.net with your name and phone number.
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We need a new Superintendent, Asst. Superintendent and Business Manager first! We can contract out these three jobs and save big money and get far better leadership. If we contract out the custodians we will in effect fire many loyal hardworking MPS employees who mostly live in our community and have families here. I heard at Lakeview that have had a rash a thefts as the high-turnover low-paid contract employees took over. In some districts these contract employees have included shady characters, convicted felons and petty thieves. Do we want these kinds of people working in our schools?
Part of the school finanace problem is the rise of Charter Schools. Most people do not know that these are thinly veiled for-profit schools. They have clverly carved out a nitch at the elementary level where it is much cheaper to educate students. With no bussing, little technology, few special services, few sports, etc etc they can educate elementary children on the cheap for maybe $3,000 each and then pocket the difference of the $7,000 in state aid as profit. Who loses? The regular public schools that offer a wide range of sports, academice and services that offer far more educational benefits. Charter schools were set up incorrectly and for the wrong reasons (to benefit wealthy business owner at the expense of kids) in Michigan. Regular public schools need far more funding especially for educating students at the high school level and for providing far more services for the money.
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