23.4 secondary teachers
9 guidance counselors
9 English learner teachers
17 special ed teachers
6 + 8 elementary teachers
4 adjustment counselors
2 psychologists
2 nurses
a wraparound coordinator
(and this isn’t the whole list)
There’s a furniture account.
There’s an increase in the sub rate.
There’s a maybe realistic budget for translation and workers comp.
There’s an actual increase in building repairs for the first time I remember.
1. You’ve just had another demonstration of what those not-to-be-trusted-Gateways do when they get more funds.
It is hard to wrap your head around how corrosive year after year after decade of chronic underfunded looks and feels like until you’re there.
Good budget numbers aren’t.
Real projections take work.
It won’t be “found”; they’ll just have projections solid enough to move money, and thus never have real consequences.
$50K from underfunded accounts so a claim can be made on support for diversity.
(gifs from “Good Omens,” pun intended)