Newaygo County Regional Educational Service Agency

1. Newaygo County Regional Educational Service Agency State of the RESA Spring, 2010 Support Education Responsibly, through Visionary Innovative Cooperative Efforts

2. Agenda • Teaching & Learning • Financial Update • National • State • District • Future

3. Teaching and LearningThe Good, The Bad & The Ugly

4. Newaygo County Robotics NC GEARS 2010 State Champions Thank you to The Fremont Area Community Foundation and the Gerber Foundation!

5. 2010 MASB Excellence in Education Award

6. Automotive Program Wins!

7. 11th Annual Technology Showcase Winner! • NCCTC Graphics Communications student Krysztof Lower

8. Other STUDENT winners! • Boilermakers Local 169 Competition.  Placing in the top 20: 9 – Roberto Diaz  (Shelby)                      15 – Tyler Brinkman  (Hesperia) 16 – Dustin Lehnert  (Grant) • Breaking Traditions MDE Award: Hannah Schmitt, Hesperia High School in Culinary Arts

9. CTE Programs Serve More Than 2,000 Students

10. Early Childhood Serves More Than 2,000

11. Working Toward Healthier Children 2008-09 BMI Data (At Risk + Over Weight) 6-11 Year Olds

12. Special Education Providers Serve More Than 2,000 Students

13. The Bad and The Ugly • Failures • Funding • Forces in Lansing

14. MS & HS Course Failures2007-2009

15. Newaygo County 2008-09 School Year No Alternative HS data included.

16. College Ready?

22. Financial Update NATIONAL STATE LOCAL

23. Over 7 million jobs lost since January 2008

24. Newaygo County issued over 240 building permits in 1999; only 188 in 2006; and continues to decline through 2009

25. Newaygo County – 15.9% (January, 2010)

28. Sources: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) data. Updated date: December 2, 2009 (not seasonally adjusted)

29. NC RESA Special Education Equalization Categorical

30. NC RESA Career-Tech Equalization Categorical

31. ISD General Operations Categorical

32. NC RESA Revenue Streams

34. Responses to the Funding Crisis • Building Closures (WC) • Support Services Privatization • Staff Reductions • Consolidation of Services • Program Elimination (CCDS, LINC, etc.)

35. NC RESA Reduced FTE

36. How Does It Look for the Future? State Funding Declining Enrollment Salaries & Benefits Health Insurance Other Expenses

38. NC RESA Declining Enrollment Trend

39. Newaygo County LEA’s Funding History 2003-2004: 10,000 students @ $6,700 = $67,000,000 2009-2010: 8,882 students @ $7,316 = $64,980,712 *CPI Source-2008 Newaygo County Equalization Report

40. Health Insurancefor teachers

41. Health Insurancefor support staff

42. Health Insurancefor admin/admin support Total District HDV Cost 2009-10 is $1.58 million

43. Race to the Top • The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) provides $4.35 billion for states. • Legislation has been enacted, but not yet funded • Teacher evaluations with student growth • Other – Dropout age, Charter Schools • The money would be used to help to implement the initiatives already signed into law

44. Race to the Top The goals for Race to the Top are clear: • States must join with other states in establishing common core standards and assessments and to benchmark standards our standards, for the first time, to international standards in this global economy; • Create a comprehensive data system that can track student progress from preschool to grad school and all the stops in between; • Take concrete steps to increase the number of great teachers and great leaders in our schools; • Put aside the excuses and find ways to fix our lowest-performing schools.

45. FUTURE • Increase academic integration opportunities at CTC to assist with credit completion and recovery. • Upgrade facilities to meet the expanding needs at FEAC and to bring the CTC into the 21st Century. • Expand post-secondary opportunities, especially for our grade 13 and beyond students. • Continue advocacy for stable funding for schools.

46. Questions?