DeKalb Parent

The Board meeting was painful, on so many levels. Click here to read the blow-by-blow notes and decide for yourself.

You can also read a good summary of it by clicking here. And click here to read the AJC article.

The Budget Committee voted to present their recommendation to the Board, which is basically this spreadsheet (click here), minus # 19 (moving from 2 planning periods to 1) and minus half of # 28 (reduction of paraprofessionals). But the details of the meeting are so interesting to read, as always…click here.

Dr. Lewis – gone.
CRCT testing for 1st and 2nd grades – gone.
School closings – temporarily gone (until next year).
7 day teaching period – gone from the budget cuts.
100 paraprofessional – gone (but it’s no longer 200).
Millions of dollars – gone (due to sloppy paperwork).
DeKalb Chamber of Commerce’s eduKalb – just getting started.

Read all the details on our News page.

Here’s an AJC article summarizing the meeting where they discussed the budget cuts.

Here’s a summary of the proposed cuts.

If you want to comment about the cuts, please go to the DeKalb County School Watch site. Thanks!

Here’s the proposed School Board Ethics Policy - please read it carefully and make your comments directly to DCSS, at the bottom of the policy. Thanks!

Well, any progress is progress and we are thankful DCSS now as a FAQ online. This is their effort to help clear up any misinformation or confusion. Here’s the link. Hopefully DCSS will continue to expand the  list of questions in the future.

There is already a great comment thread about this on the DeKalb School Watch Blog. Please go there to comment, so everything can be in one place. Thanks!

To help us all better understand the Fernbank Science Program and STT – we’ve started a new page, where you can post info and updates.

Here it is.

There are LOTS of school closing documents online – the transparency is fantastic, but the amount of information and data is a little overwhelming,

Here are some of the best documents:

“Enrollment Balancing” report

Enrollment and capacity numbers

Map showing enrollment/open seats

The Citizen’s Planning Task Force continues to post LOTS of great data/maps. Click here and check it often!

If you don’t have time to read through all the documents, you can check our news/articles page for info reported by the media.

There’s been a lot of talk about the top-heavy administration. If you want the facts and not the rumors, please do your own research. Click here to view the salaries of all DeKalb County employess: Georgia Open Records

Click on Organization, then Local Boards of Education, then under Organization, click on DeKalb.

Here’s an org chart of the Administration.

The school board has requested that people send specific budget cutting suggestions to this email:

budget-suggestions@fc.dekalb.k12.ga.us

Also, visit our documents page to see a comparison of DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett.

www.DekalbParentsAreUnited.com !!!!

This is easier to remember and tell people about-the old link still works-http://dekalbparent.wordpress.com/