Rep. Schaffer,
Have you been contacted by any people from the Pickerington school district to assure they are receiving all the state funding they can?
Thanks,
Financially challenged taxpayer
Article published Mar 9, 2006
Schaffer wants state meeting on city school finances
From staff reports
COLUMBUS -State Rep. Tim Schaffer on Wednesday asked for an emergency meeting of the Ohio Department of Education to see how the state could help Lancaster City Schools survive looming budget cuts.
The city school board members on Tuesday received a plan for the school district to make up for a $4 million projected shortfall for the 2006-07 school year.
''I am deeply distressed that our schools are losing many dedicated and quality teachers and staff,'' said Schaffer, R-Lancaster. ''It is unfortunate that these layoffs are occurring. I want to do all that I can to help these professionals during this difficult time and get their jobs back.''
The plan includes $4.8 million in reductions and calls for a series of consolidations - including moving sixth-grade students from Lancaster's elementary schools to the district's two junior high schools and placing ninth-graders from Stanbery Freshman Campus into Lancaster High School. Busing would be eliminated for high school students.
It also calls for the county's second-largest school district to reduce certified employees, such as teachers - by 58 positions - 35 support employees, and 14 administrators. The proposed cuts are part of a corrective action plan the district must submit to the Ohio Department of Education because it was placed in fiscal caution Feb. 16. The designation came following the failure of a 10-mill property tax in a special election in February.
Schaffer said in a news release that Lancaster City Schools received $16,001,125 from the state in 2005 and $16,134,939 in 2006 and that and in 2007, the amount will be $16,443,233.
State funding to the school district has increased a total of 32 percent in the last 10 years, he said.
''While we have more work to do to improve school funding formulas, which I have worked very hard to do, claims that the state has cut school funding are simply false,'' Schaffer said in the news release. ''The facts speak for themselves.
A special meeting of the Lancaster City Schools Board of Education will be at 7 p.m. March 16 to discuss the proposed corrective action plan. A final vote is set for the board meeting at 7 p.m. March 23 in the Education Service Center, 111 S. Broad St., Lancaster.
Have you been contacted by any people from the Pickerington school district to assure they are receiving all the state funding they can?
Thanks,
Financially challenged taxpayer
Article published Mar 9, 2006
Schaffer wants state meeting on city school finances
From staff reports
COLUMBUS -State Rep. Tim Schaffer on Wednesday asked for an emergency meeting of the Ohio Department of Education to see how the state could help Lancaster City Schools survive looming budget cuts.
The city school board members on Tuesday received a plan for the school district to make up for a $4 million projected shortfall for the 2006-07 school year.
''I am deeply distressed that our schools are losing many dedicated and quality teachers and staff,'' said Schaffer, R-Lancaster. ''It is unfortunate that these layoffs are occurring. I want to do all that I can to help these professionals during this difficult time and get their jobs back.''
The plan includes $4.8 million in reductions and calls for a series of consolidations - including moving sixth-grade students from Lancaster's elementary schools to the district's two junior high schools and placing ninth-graders from Stanbery Freshman Campus into Lancaster High School. Busing would be eliminated for high school students.
It also calls for the county's second-largest school district to reduce certified employees, such as teachers - by 58 positions - 35 support employees, and 14 administrators. The proposed cuts are part of a corrective action plan the district must submit to the Ohio Department of Education because it was placed in fiscal caution Feb. 16. The designation came following the failure of a 10-mill property tax in a special election in February.
Schaffer said in a news release that Lancaster City Schools received $16,001,125 from the state in 2005 and $16,134,939 in 2006 and that and in 2007, the amount will be $16,443,233.
State funding to the school district has increased a total of 32 percent in the last 10 years, he said.
''While we have more work to do to improve school funding formulas, which I have worked very hard to do, claims that the state has cut school funding are simply false,'' Schaffer said in the news release. ''The facts speak for themselves.
A special meeting of the Lancaster City Schools Board of Education will be at 7 p.m. March 16 to discuss the proposed corrective action plan. A final vote is set for the board meeting at 7 p.m. March 23 in the Education Service Center, 111 S. Broad St., Lancaster.
