Posted on 05/09/2018 5:44:09 AM PDT by redgolum
DAVENPORT, Ia. (KWQC) - Monday night, the superintendent for Davenport Community School District introduced additional options of school closures for Vision 2020. Vision 2020 is a five-year plan outlining what the district hopes to accomplish; but with budget problems, the plan includes the possibility of closing schools. Now, more options are on the table.
Here are the three additional options provided by the school district: 1. Close one of the District’s three large high schools, leaving 2 high schools with 10th, 11th, and 12th grades; 5 intermediate schools with grades 7, 8, and 9; and 18 elementary K-6 schools with the addition of preschool where space allows. The closed high school would be repurposed or sold. 2. Implement a Pre K or K-6 elementary model district-wide. Move 7-8 grade students from Williams Intermediate to Smart, Sudlow, Walcott, and Wood Intermediate Schools. Adams K-6 students would move to the Williams facility and the Adams facility will be repurposed or sold. 3. Students attending Washington Elementary will attend McKinley, Garfield, Madison, or Eisenhower Schools. Buchanan students will attend Fillmore, Harrison, or Truman schools. Buchanan and Washington facilities will be repurposed or sold. 4. Convert all elementary schools to Pre K or Kindergarten through 6th grade. All current intermediate schools will become 7 and 8th grade. Monroe School will be vacated and the current Smart building will become Pre K through 6th grade. Seventh and eighth grade students will attend Williams, Sudlow, and Walcott. The Monroe school building will be re-purposed on sold.
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DAVENPORT, Ia. (KWQC) - “Monday night, the superintendent for Davenport Community School District introduced additional options of school closures for Vision 2020. Vision 2020 is a five-year plan outlining what the district hopes to accomplish; but with budget problems, the plan includes the possibility of closing schools. Now, more options are on the table.”
You posted: “The Davenport Superintendent was over spending the budget by a few million for years. The schools are a zoo, and getting worse. Notice how they are blaming minorities not having access. Never mind that other schools in the area are facing similar problems. This is also the same school district that built a muli million dollar swimming pool.”
Probably most school districts in Blue States are facing the same problem of less students, more free loading illegal students in the system and tax payers saying “No More!”
So instead of cutting expenses like a business would have to do, they are trying to create bigger budgets to pay and reward the people who got them into these financial messes.
This has been happening in the Blue Coastal counties of Californicator land for several years. Few parents with minor children in school can afford to buy or rent a home in the cities in these Blue Coastal counties due to the price of the homes to buy or rent.
Good parents living in these Blue Coastal counties, with school age kids have been doing one of two things:
1. Sending their kids to private schools if they can afford to.
2. Home schooling their kids via the internet for free.
Either option is killing their local public school districts that depend on the government $’s per day/student to stay afloat and snookering the voters into voting higher budgets for the kids.
Just say “NO” to these left wing abusers using school funding to pay for more incompetent teachers and staff.
When you close those schools fire the teachers instead of sending them to other schools.
We are working on that.
Also, the smaller schools don’t need their own principal.
Buy the guy/gal a cell phone and let them manage by visiting their schools and have cell phone for emergencies or if they need to be talked to.
They had an article in the Ames paper comparing how much Ames spent per pupil and we were in the 70th percentile. I think Davenport was in the comparison, with the strong suggestion that we ought to be following that example.
I posted a suggestion that we should look at the lowest cost per pupil school for ideas instead of Davenport. My comment was removed...................
If I have this wrong I apologize. I don’t live in that precise area anymore.
Didn’t several Bond Issues to build another high school fail. So instead the school district converted an existing school into a high school. Viola - Davenport North High School exists.
Now they need to close schools.
Dumb.
You nailed it John.
We send our kids to a religious school, and would have no matter what the public schools were. I get blasted on a regular basis from my neighbors for “stealing” funding to the Davenport Schools. When I say that my property taxes already pay for them, typically I get told that the property tax isn’t enough. My wife is a teacher, and Davenport blows money like crazy. The super should have been arrested years ago for mismanagement of funds.
Funny thing is that the schools are “full” according to the parents I talk to. I doubt that, as my daughter’s class in the private school has 30 kids, and the same class in the little town I live in has 10. But I do know that the high schools are crowded.
Funny thing is the local small towns really want to build a new high school in West Scott county and get out of the Davenport school system. Even though Iowa allows open enrollment, Davenport does not (they will deny you unless the kid is a low performer).
My wife teaches across the river. They had the same report for “decreasing enrollment”. By the same I mean the same numbers (students, funding, etc). At one of the town halls, a parent came in with census numbers and publicly available enrollment numbers, and called BS. I suspect a similar game is going on in Davenport.
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