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RCAS Legislative Breakfast

RCAS Legislative Breakfast. Dr. Timothy Mitchell Rapid City Area Schools 11/12/13. Priority Tasks 2013-2014. Priority Task #1 All Students Learning at High Levels Priority Task #2 Fiscal Responsibility Priority Task #3 Infrastructure Development. Priority Tasks 2013-2014.

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RCAS Legislative Breakfast

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  1. RCAS Legislative Breakfast Dr. Timothy Mitchell Rapid City Area Schools 11/12/13

  2. Priority Tasks 2013-2014 Priority Task #1 All Students Learning at High Levels Priority Task #2 Fiscal Responsibility Priority Task #3 Infrastructure Development

  3. Priority Tasks 2013-2014 Priority Task #4 Personnel Priority Task #5 Policy Development and Revision Priority Task #6 Miscellaneous Legislative Session and School Safety

  4. Priority Task #1-Learning Professional Learning Communities-More Clarity and Coherence Right People-Right Place-Right Time Curriculum-Assessment-Instruction Not Just on Wednesday-Culture Shift

  5. Priority Task #1-Learning Common Core Adopt by SD Board of Education-November 2010 Language Arts and Math Rigorous set of expectations for students Implementation 2013-2014 school year www.commoncore.sd.gov www.smarterbalanced.org

  6. Priority Task #2-Fiscal Responsibility 2012-2013 Fall Enrollment 13,916.64 2013-2014 Fall Enrollment 13,811.58 Budget: 13,850

  7. Priority Task #2-Fiscal Responsibility Budget Process-Similar to 2013-2014 Budget Calendar Approved 10-15-13 2014-2015 FTE counts submitted Health Insurance-proposed benefit change Capital Outlay requests submitted 2012-2013 Audit presented to School Board Legislative Session Begins Federal Education Funding

  8. Priority Task #2-Fiscal Responsibility Salary Schedule Task Force Must be Competitive Provide Flexibility Consider all Components of Compensation Communicates What is Important Serves a Purpose-Be Reliable

  9. The Situation Current Budget: General Fund $82.3 Mill Capital Outlay $18.0 Mill Sped $18.6 Mill Pension $2.3 Mill Health Insurance $16.9 Mill Total Overall RCAS $ 165.6 Mill

  10. The Situation 2013-2014 Budget Includes: -Fund Balance 17% - $3.9 Mill in Fund Balance - 5% Bonus to Staff - No Capital Outlay Flexibility -Budget Reduction $1.5 Mill

  11. Priority Task #3-Infrastructure Development Five Year Capital Outlay Plan Board Study Session 10-29-13 Current Debt Review- Toby Morris Proposed 2013-2014 Five Year CO Plan What?? and How??

  12. Priority Task #4-Personnel Teacher/Principal Effectiveness Pilot **Improve instruction and student learning **Encourage professional relationships **Use of multiple measures **Establish clear expectations (Danielson Framework) **Fair, Flexible and Research-based **Used to inform personnel decisions

  13. Priority Task #5-Policy Communication Task Force New Policy Implementation DRAFT-Media Guidelines Impact of Social Media Task Force formation

  14. Priority Task #6-Miscellanous Monitor Legislative Session Actively Involved: ASBSD, SASD, SDSSA, Large School Group and USA Group All education groups coming together with consistent proposals

  15. Communication • Large School Group-Dianna Miller (Lobbyist) • USA-Mitch Richter & John Pedersen • SDSSA-Dec 4-Tim Mitchell • SASD-Feb 4 -Rob Monson • ASBSD-Nov 22-Wade Pogany & Sheryl Kirkeby • School Board-Jeff Nelson • Website: www.rcas.org • Administration • Superintendent • 2014 Legislative Session

  16. Priority Task #6-Miscellaneous Summer Study-Education Funding **Increase the # of school days by 2 each year for 5 years for a total increase of 10 days **Raise the PSA by 3.8% to $4805 (8-7) **Provide funding to add training days for technology **Plan to gradually reduce the use of Capital Outlay flexibility **Minimum funding base of 2% (Current CPI 1.6%)

  17. Priority Task #6-Miscellaneous Summer Study-Education Funding **Dollars for use of evidence-based strategies **Dollars for teacher salaries Large School Group **Change index factor to 3% or more **Change the CPI

  18. Preview on Issues • Adjustments to PSA • Use of Capital Outlay • Additional Training Days-Technology • Teacher Pay • CTE Programs • School Safety • Pension Levy • SDCL 13-32-9 – Co-Curricular Participation • SDCL 6-8B-2 – 55% General Obligation Bonds • School Calendar

  19. Follow-Up • Thank You for your attendance today • I will be contacting you to schedule a meeting • We are inviting each of you to consider visiting a school • Questions ?? and Conversation

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