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Optimizing Labor Budget Proposals for Oakland Schools District

An overview of the detailed budget proposals presented by the Oakland Schools Labor Coalition to the District in February-March 2010. The coalition includes various labor unions representing different sectors within the education system, aiming to address excess management salaries, unmandated testing expenses, consultant contracts, new teacher programs, school consolidations, reserve reductions, state loan payments, and adult education cuts. The proposals also highlight the need for community involvement, fiscal accountability, and a strategic reallocation of resources to enhance efficiency and sustainability.

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Optimizing Labor Budget Proposals for Oakland Schools District

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  1. Oakland Schools Labor Coalition Labor’s budget proposals to District Feb.-Mar. 2010

  2. Oakland Schools Labor Coalition • AFSCME 257: Custodians, food service, aides to handicapped • AFT 771: Adult Ed hourly teachers • BTC: Building Trades workers • IBT: Warehouse workers & drivers • OEA: Classroom teachers, education professionals • SEIU 1021: Administrative, instructional staff • UAOS: Certificated & classified administrators • Alameda Labor Council, AFL-CIO

  3. Here’s the money…Overview

  4. Excess management, salaries • 80 x $125,000 = $10 million / year • State’s 55% rule is 8 administrators / 100 teachers • Ed. Code 41372 • Eliminate unnecessary NEXOs & office overhead, top administrators (total cost is $3.3 million) • Audit of OUSD found as many as 78 excess management positions in 2006-07

  5. Unmandated testing • $10 million / year • Money wasted on technology alone – at least $5 million / year • At least $5 million is wasted on contractors, unnecessary testing staff time • Developing test • Validating questions • Producing / distributing tests • Administering tests • Scoring / assessing tests • Analyzing test results • Gaming the test / “teaching to the test” • Professional development on how to teach to the test – developing, presenting • Additional technology for testing: hardware and software

  6. State Trustee • $317,500 / year • What work does Trustee perform? • Will State reimburse District for Audit findings from Trusteeship period? • Transfer by Jack O’Connell to charter schools of $500,000

  7. Consultant contracts, outsourcing • Minimum $5 million / year… • Review every dollar for duplication • Utilize in-house talent • Evaluate consultants, track outcomes • Redirect contracted-out coaching, professional development, PD presentations, new teacher recruitment and subsidies to in-District resources

  8. The New Teacher Project • $1.2 million • How effective are Teach for America, Oakland Teacher Fellows? • Do these programs provide stability? • Re-invest in District’s community, build a future in the District; Stabilize, professionalize workforce • Shift to Teach Tomorrow in Oakland

  9. Consolidate (not close) schools • Reluctantly, in the context of drastic cuts, work to preserve small schools wherever possible while eliminating duplicate management • Respect parents, community in process – strive for stability and confidence • Assess the 13 most recently divided schools (now more than 30) and consolidation, not closure • Improve safety and security, compromised on divided campuses

  10. Reduce “reserve for economic uncertainty” • Temporarily reduce from 2% ($8 million) to 1% ($4 million) - one-time savings • Seek a waiver under these extraordinary circumstances

  11. Payments on State Loan • $6 million / yearfor 5 years • Seek legislative support to waive or suspend payments • Seek State reimbursement for Audit findings under state receivership, especially in Attendance, State/Fed Compliance • $1 million / year • OUSD is fined more than $1 million / year for violations. The money goes to the state – even though the state was responsible for the violations under the state takeover.

  12. Adult Education • Eliminated 200 teachers - only 150 teachers remain • 9 non-classroom-instruction = salary $804,000 • Non-classroom-instruction support staff = salary $281,000 • Total $1,085,000

  13. Measures E & G • Permanent parcel tax to "attract and retain qualified credentialed teachers" and "maintain small class sizes“ • Generates $20 million / year in revenue • $5 million misallocated – mostly coaching and professional development – including professional development for principals and Nexo's! • Spending authorized by state administrator without community oversight since April 2008

  14. Total savings

  15. AFSCME 257: Custodians, food service, aides to handicapped AFT 771: Adult Ed hourly teachers BTC: Building Trades workers IBT: Warehouse workers & drivers OEA: Classroom teachers, education professionals SEIU 1021: Administrative, instructional staff UAOS: Certificated & classified administrators Alameda Labor Council, AFL-CIO Oakland Schools Labor Coalition We make this District work

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