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From: "M. Soto"
Date: June 19, 2013, 4:21:30 PM CDT
To:
Subject:**Info from WY: Letter from Dr. Joyce D. KennerReply-To:
"M. Soto"
Dear Parents, Guardians, Students, and Faculty,
As some of you may know, the Chicago Public Schools released
preliminary school budgets last
Friday. Our Local School Council voted unanimously yesterday to
reject the proposed budget by
the administration because it does not adequately fund our
school to maintain the standard of
excellence for which we are known. Our budget was cut by just
over 1.1 million dollars. By
restructuring the Leadership Team, eliminating substitute
teachers, not filling an Art position due
to retirement, cutting a security position and having department
chairpersons take on additionalclasses and/or instructional support
duties, we were able to reduce the deficit to just under
$800,000. While we are doing everything we can to limit the
impact to the learning environment,
there will be cuts to our teaching faculty and the services we
have been able to previously provide
for our students.
Due to the budget cuts the following modifications are being
recommended:
1) The Writing Center is eliminated.
2) All students will take six classes. We are exploring the
feasibility of charging a$500 class fee for students who want to
take a seventh class and a scholarship fund for students
who receive fee waivers. We would use the fee money to buy back
teachers to teach
additional classes.
3) Reducing the number of world languages taught at our
school.
4) Reducing faculty/staff positions by 8.5.
5) Cutting ACT Prep classes to before and after school only.
6) Streamlining our non-core classes which will reduce the
number of electives offered
in non-core areas such as business, world language, art, music,
etc.
In addition to the impact on our instructional budget, our
operations budget has also been
reduced. It is my sincere hope that the Board of Education will
find a way to increase our
