Classes cut at Memorial and North

Please find below a list of all the classes that were cut at North and Memorial High School due to budget reductions. I did not get an electronic copy of this info. so this is tedious and I hope I got it all right! I have entered the Dept. where the cut was made, then the staff cut that was made and then the # of students displaced by the cut classes. When the info. indicated that an entire section was cut, I assumed that to be 28 students.

My comments about this list are that this is just one more example of what happens when there is absolutely no leadership functioning at the top of our district for the last several years. There was NO PLANNING at all for the budget shortfalls that have been building for years. In 2006-07 there was a $6 million deficit that the leadership just took from the fund balance and even after that they made NO PLAN for the coming years!! In addition, there was NO PLANNING by the ECASD leadership in the event that the referendum failed. So on April 4th, the day after the election, principals had to scramble to come up with their best shot with NO OVERRIDING POLICY OR GUIDELINES to make these huge cuts. The ECASD BOE did not even bother to meet in the intervening 2 weeks to craft some sort of educational/programming philosophy as a guideline for principals.

I am not faulting principals Leibham or Valk at all for this! They did their best without any information in a ridiculous timeframe. But it is clear that cuts were based on low enrollment rather than curriculum standards. When you see huge chunks of the AP curriculum erased along with the Charter School offerings decimated next to cuts in Keyboarding and Culinary II classes you know that there was no overriding VISION for what the district is doing.

Sad, sad, sad.

MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL: 6.8 staff and 1077 students affected (this means that more than half the Memorial students lost a class!)

Agriculture, .2 staff, 38 students:
Horticulture and Wildlife Mgmt. II

Art, .3 staff, 18 students:
Comm. Art II

Business/Marketing, .4 staff, 74 students
Keyboarding, Prep. 21, Acct. II (reduced from yr. to sem.) and Intro. to Web

Family/Consumer Ed.: .3 staff, 46 students
Culinary II, Parent/Child, Child Care

Health: .1 staff, 28 students
Health 1000 (1 sect.)

Language Arts: .9 staff, 139 students
1 section each of English 10, Enriched English 10 , AP Lit. , Prep. 21; GUM (?), Adv. Theater

Math: 1.0 staff, 121 students
1 sect. each of Geometry, Alg/Geom. 3, Accel. Pre-Calc., AP Stats and Tech. Math

Music: .4 staff and 88 students
Jazz 4, Jazz 5, Show Choir 3, Music Theory and the Band Coord.

Science: .7 staff and 131 students
1 sect. each of Earth Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Botany plus Env. Science B

Social Studies: .6 staff and 81 students
1 sect. of Civics plus AP US History, Philosphy !!, Anthropology and SWAT sem. (?)

Tech Ed: .6 staff and 60 students
Intro. Const., Aviation, Elect., Digital, Woods II

World Language: .6 staff and 50 students
French 1, German 5, and i sect. of Spanish 3

Charter School: .4 staff and 63 students
Intro. Comp. Tech., Operations Syst., Cisco I, Cisco III, Animation

Misc.: .1 staff and 28 students
1 sect. of Personal Awareness/Zeegers (?)

Phy Ed: .2 staff and 56 students
1 sect. each of PE 9 and Team Sports

NORTH HIGH SCHOOL

NOTE: I received an XCEL spreadsheet but I don't know how to paste it in this blog so I just copied and pasted the information. The first section is classes dropped to low enrollment, followed by classes dropped due to budget reduction and then classes cut due to both factors. Classes are not categorized by Dept. The information is listed as follows:

Class Name, class #, staff cut, students enrolled

Totals at North High are 8.0 staff (3.7 due to low enrollment) and 598 students.

Dropped/Low Enrollment 2/2007
Introduction to Natural Resources 104 0.10 3
Vet Science II 114 0.10 16
Wildlife Management 2 118 0.10 15
Advanced Computer Applications 306 0.10 1
Intermediate Web Design 334 0.10 5
Families First 422 0.10 9
Food Science and Nutrition 432 0.10 8
ASL 2 540 0.20 9
Advanced Journalism 622 0.20 0
Stagecraft 632 0.10 7
Concert Band 802 0.20 7
Chamber Choir 822 0.20 10
WSI/LGT (EB Semester 2) 0910 .10 12
Early Bird - 12 0917 .10 4
AP Biology II 1126 0.20 4
Adv Chemistry A 1132 0.10 13
Adv Chemistry B 1133 0.10 16
AP Chemistry II 1134 0.20 0
AP Physics C: Mechanics 1142 0.20 4
AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism 1144 0.20 1
AP US History 1202 0.20 12
History of Philosophy II 1234 0.10 9
Architectural Design (Drafting II) 1320 0.20 10
Computer Int Manf (CIM) 1326 0.20 12
Vocational Metals 1344 0.20 6


4/11/2007- budget reductions
Floral Design and Horticulture 102 0.10 18
Vetrinary Science 1 112 0.10 18
Combined Visual Arts 200 0.10 19
Desktop Publishing 312 0.10 14
International Business & Marketing 316 0.10 17
Culinary II 418 0.10 17
French 5 508 0.20 12
German 4 516 0.20 16
German 5 518 0.20 1
Journalism 620 0.20 16
Advanced Theatre 630 0.10 20
Marketing II CO-OP 326 0.20 20
Algebra & Trigonomety A 713 0.20 15
Honors Earth Science 1102 0.10 19
Botany 1130 0.10 14
DS Middle East 1238 0.10 16
Intro to Aviation 1308 0.10 18
Electronics 3 1314 0.20 10
Pre-Engineering CAD 1322 0.20 9
Principals of Engineering 1324 0.20 14
Intro to Op Sys 1402 0.10 10
CISCO 1 1408 0.10 18
CISCO 2 1410 0.10 13
CISCO 3 1412 0.10 7
CISCO 4 1414 0.10 7
Basic English 9 2002 0.20 5
Basic US History 2004 0.10 2

Cut 4/24/07 - Low Enrollment/Budget
Business Co-Op Classroom 1602 0.20 15
Business Co-Op 1604 0.20 13
Ap Calc BC 728 0.20 12