Thursday, May 17, 2012
The Cobb County Board of Education will set the 2012-13 calendar after choosing three or five furlough days at its meeting tonight.
The Cobb County Board of Education will take up the budget, the next SPLOST and Teach for America at its regular meeting tonight. Aside from a couple of Northeast Cobb items, the biggest issue on the agenda is final passage of the $841.9 million fiscal 2013 budget, which runs from July 1, 2012, to June 30, 2013. Once the board approves a budget, it will have to agree on a school calendar to implement the furlough says. The budget recommendation from Chief Financial Officer Mike Addison and Superintendent Michael Hinojosa has not changed: five furlough days for all full-time employees; 175 school days; an increase of two students in the average class size; a decrease of 350 teachers across the system, most if not all by attritition; a half-…
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
The county Board of Education keeps both options on the table leading up to the passage of a final budget next week.
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
We won’t know how many furlough days and how many school days will be part of the next Cobb County school year until the Cobb Board of Education passes the final fiscal 2013 budget May 17. The school board delved into the Cobb County School District’s fiscal woes during Wednesday’s work session. Most of the talk was long-term, big-picture stuff: the state’s role in putting Cobb in a budget hole; the likelihood of next year’s budget being much tougher; the effects of state charter schools; the declining educational opportunities in the county; and the need for a dramatically different educational model. “We are not providing the education that Cobb County expects, and we’ve got to find another way,” Post 7 board member Alison Bartlett said…
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Watch the Cobb County Board of Education also tackle the Harrison ninth-grade center and reapportionment and start a conversation.
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Note: The video feed will work only while the meeting is running. It will not pick up the archived video after the meeting. The Cobb County Board of Education is holding its monthly work session this morning at 8:30 at the Central Office on Glover Street, and we can't remember an agenda packed with more potential controversy. In the past that would have meant two words for Cobb County Patches: "live blog." But while we've had lots of people watching those live blogs, we haven't gotten much conversation. So we're trying something different today. You can watch the live stream of the school board's meeting right here, on your favorite Patch site. And you can comment right away on what you're seeing and hearing. So whether you're fired up …
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The budget, Teach for America, reapportionment and the Harrison ninth-grade center are among the big items today.
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
The Cobb County Board of Education is putting the "work" into work session today with an agenda crowded with controversy. The school board will take another vote on the Harrison High School ninth-grade center at the request of West Cobb board member Lynnda Eagle, who hopes to reverse a 4-3 vote in March to postpone the center indefinitely and delay other renovations and improvements at the school by at least a year. The swing vote appears to be Vice Chairman David Morgan, who will see one of his favored initiatives, the hiring of Teach for America teachers for South Cobb, brought back to the board thanks to Chairman Scott Sweeney. The Teach for America proposal was pulled without a vote earlier this year. The Cobb County Association of …
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Monday, May 7, 2012
Only one person spoke during the only public hearing scheduled on the Cobb County School District's proposed $841.9 million spending plan for fiscal 2013.
So only one person, Educators First head Tana Page, spoke during the public hearing, although to be fair, at least four teachers spoke during the teacher salary hearing at 6:30. You can recap the brief meeting in the CoverItLive blog above. But I'll reiterate the questions from that blog right here. What does the lack of turnout from the public and, for that matter, the board members mean? Do Cobb County residents not care about the schools budget? Are they happy with the proposed spending plan? Do they think the school board doesn't care what they have to say? Let us know what you think in the comment space below. The Cobb County Board of Education is holding its only public hearing on the fiscal 2013 budget for the Cobb County School …
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JoEllen Smith
11:31 am on Friday, May 11, 2012
On the one hand I'm glad that they are only down to 25 potential teacher cuts rather than 300.. However, 25 teacher lay-offs, all in elementary schools? I truly believe they can find that money somewhere. Point of service is always the LAST place that should be cut. That is what we "believe" we are paying for! more ›