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    Posted: Feb 14 2012 at 6:27am
Today's Journal....

Lakota considers cutting 69 teachers
Plan to offset a projected $9M deficit for next school year

LIBERTY TWP. — Lakota Local School District administrators are proposing eliminating nearly 69 teaching positions for secondary grades in the latest round of budget cuts.

The cuts are being proposed to help offset a projected $9 million budget deficit for the 2012-13 academic year.

The plan would allow the district to cut the secondary payroll by about $4.3 million, according to district officials.

About 43 teaching positions — based on district seniority and certification — would be eliminated at the high schools with an anticipated savings of at least $2.7 million. About 26 positions would be cut at the junior high level for a savings of about $1.6 million.

ONCE AGAIN, WE HAVE PROPOSED CUTS ON THE TABLE, THIS TIME FROM THE LAKOTA SCHOOL DISTRICT. THE ARTICLE TELLS US THE CUTS WILL BE MADE IN THE TEACHER RANKS AND SAYS NOTHING ABOUT CUTS IN THE ADMINISTRATOR RANKS. NOW I'M NO FAN OF THE TEACHER'S UNION. TOO BIG FOR THEIR BRITCHES, BUT THIS SEEMS LIKE A RAW DEAL FOR THEM. WHILE THE TEACHERS MAKE A NICE SALARY, THE HIGHER SALARIES/BENNIES PACKAGES ARE IN THE ADMIN. POSITIONS. IF SO, AND IF THE NAME OF THE GAME IS TO CUT MONEY FROM THE BUDGET, WHY WOULDN'T YOU LOOK AT ADMIN. DUPLICATION OF JOB DUTIES SUCH AS ASSIST. DIRECTORS/MANAGERS/SUPERVISORS AND MULTI-LAYERED POSITIONS AND CUT THERE FIRST, NOT IN THE CLASSROOM? I BET IF WE TOOK A LOOK AT THE LAKOTA ORGANIZATION, WE COULD SEE MULTIPLE POSITIONS THAT COULD BE COMBINED INTO ONE. PROBABLY TRUE WITH ANY DISTRICT. IF YOU CUT A SIZABLE NUMBER OF PAPER-SHUFFLING, DIRECTOR OF THIS/DIRECTOR OF THAT ADMIN JOBS AND STARTED CONSOLIDATING JOB RESPONSIBILITIES, YOU MAY BE ABLE TO SAVE SOME TEACHING JOBS, ELIMINATING THE NEED TO CUT CLASS SIZE, BENEFITING THE KIDS IN A MORE EFFICIENT WAY. THIS SEEMS TO BE THE GAME WHEN DOWNSIZING IS PLAYED. CUT THE LITTLE GUYS AND LEAVE THE HIGHER SALARIED POSITIONS ALONE. DOESN'T MAKE SENSE OTHER THAN TO PROVE THE UPPER ECHELON PROTECTS THEIR OWN.
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VV: the article also included this: "The fourth proposal - focusing on administration, athletics and other operations - will be presented at 7 p.m. Feb.27, also at Lakota East."
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VV: the article also included this: "The fourth proposal - focusing on administration, athletics and other operations
- will be presented at 7 p.m. Feb.27, also at Lakota East."


It will be interesting to re-visit this after that date to discuss whether the severity of the admin. cuts matches those in the teaching ranks. Bet they keep alot of admin. positions that duplicate efforts. They like assistants to the assistants and creating Director positions to accomodate more top heavy worthless paper-shuffling jobs for their buds. JMO

Hell, rumor had it that Middletown had the football coach checking truancy to justify his job (before he left for Fairfield, that is) Situations like that, if true, do not endear the system to the taxpaying public.

chmoore1, are you connected with the schools? Your defense of the Midd. schools seems to suggest that. If so, it explains some of your responses to our stance on the other side of the fence here.
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VV: the article also included this: "The fourth proposal - focusing on administration, athletics and other operations
- will be presented at 7 p.m. Feb.27, also at Lakota East."


Feb 28th article- Midd. Journal....

Lakota’s latest budget proposal targets athletics

LIBERTY TWP. — Lakota Local Schools administrators are recommending cutting $315,000 from the district’s $2.1 million athletics budget for next school year by decreasing coaching staff, support staff and other sports expenses

Over the past few weeks, the district has been presenting budget proposals totaling $7.4 million in cuts focusing on preschool, elementary and secondary education, and now athletics.

On March 5 (not Feb. 27th), the administration will present remainder of its budget proposals focusing on the administration, district-wide personnel and supplemental contracts

NOW WE'RE TALKING. GET TO THE AREA WHERE BIG MONEY WILL BE CUT FROM THE BUDGET- ADMINISTRATION POSITIONS. NOT ATHLETICS, NOT TEACHERS....ADMIN. SALARIES. GET RID OF THE REPETITIVE DIRECTOR POSITIONS, THE ASSISTANTS TO THE ASSISTANTS AND THE INTERMEDIATE MANAGER SLOTS. LITTLE GUYS REPORT TO A FEW BIG GUYS WITH NO PAPER-SHUFFLERS IN BETWEEN. LET'S SEE HOW FAR THEY WILL GO ON THIS. WILL THEY CUT THEIR BUDDIES AT THE TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN OR WILL THEY PROTECT THEM AS THEY USUALLY TRY TO DO?
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Lakota proposes cutting 50 administrative jobs
District already has 
recommended more than 100 teaching job cuts

LIBERTY TWP. — In its final budget proposal to the Lakota Board of Education, district administrators are recommending eliminating 50 more jobs, including central office administrators, building administrators and instructional specialists in moves that would cut $3.5 million from the 2012-13 budget

In Monday night’s proposal, the senior jobs recommended for elimination include an assistant superintendent, assistant treasurer, curriculum director, two assistant elementary school principals and the two deans of students, one at each high school.

The deans would be replaced by an assistant principal, shared between the two high schools.

NOW WE'RE GETTING DOWN TO REAL SAVINGS. PROBABLY DIDN'T NEED THE ASSIST TO THE ASSIST HIGH PAYING POSITIONS IN THE FIRST PLACE. ASSIST. TREASURER? WHAT? ASSIST.ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPALS? WHY? WHY DO YOU NEED AN ASSIST. SUPER? TOO TOP HEAVY. BIG MONEY HERE FOLKS. SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE PLACE TO START. ARE THE ADMIN. CUTS IN PROPORTION TO THE TEACHER POPULATION CUTS? SHOULD BE.
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Article Title: Assistant principals feel heat as budgets shrink

Saw this article in the Cincinnati Enquirer yesterday. It talks about administrative cuts being made throughout the state.

Cuts Being Made by School Districts:

40 - Administrators Cincinnati Public
49 - Lakota
ALL Asst's. - Milford
Kings, Oak Hills, Clermont and so on.

Also, you can select a county and compare districts.

Middletown - Highest paid average salary for administrators
Middletown - Highest Administrator Cost per Pupil
BUT -- Out of the 10 Butler County Districts that are compared Middletown is in the bottom 1/2 with the number of pupils per administrator.
These comparisons are based on data from 2011 from the Ohio Dept. of Ed. This school year Middletown increased the number of administrators and they have a job announcement on their website to hire another for next year. One of the jobs that were previously cut due to budget constraints in being filled again.

To view the contents on cincinnati.com, go to: http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201204070622/NEWS/303260174


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Information from jsmith......Middletown - Highest paid average salary for administrators
Middletown - Highest Administrator Cost per Pupil
BUT -- Out of the 10 Butler County Districts that are compared Middletown is in the bottom 1/2 with the number of pupils per administrator.
These comparisons are based on data from 2011 from the Ohio Dept. of Ed. This school year Middletown increased the number of administrators and they have a job announcement on their website to hire another for next year. One of the jobs that were previously cut due to budget constraints in being filled again

If true, could you explain why we have this situation with regard to administrator salaries and cost per pupil, Ms. Andrew? How does the district justify this especially when considering the end results on performance? Why is the school district hiring a person to fill the same position previously cut? Is there other information that we aren't aware of? Please explain.
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Ah Vietvet you are only but scratching the surface here.  Let us ask Ms. Andrews a few more questions shall we?  Questions like, why is Race to the Top money being used for, you guessed it, ADMINiSTRATORS? I guess one could be thankful it isn't being used as Lisa Lowery wanted, to pay for the high school coach.  You cut assistant principals out one year, bring em back the next.  Speaking of administrators, is it not true that Debbie Sanders left MIddletown ina  tizzy awhile back, pulling her children and heading for Monroe (trash talking MIddletown the entire time), only to be cut because she doesn't have her principal's license and then, you guessed it, is the new principal at Central next year? Speaking of no license, is it true some of your overpaid "academic coaches" don't even hold a teaching license?  What's up with that?  And what about TItle 1 funds?  How many of your administrators are paid out of that?  Aren't those funds supposed to be for the students in some fashion?  How does Kathy Jonas help support students? Isn't she one of the ones paid from this fund?  Teachers order supplies for the students from this fund every year and guess what?  This year they didn't get them all.  When you contact her, no response.  Where did that money go?  Why do you have a reading program that we tax payers paid for, one that is research based and aligned to the standards, yet teachers are not allowed to use it and school fee money is not used to reorder supplies for it.  That money is used to order other workbooks.  One last question, I see teacher salaries in the paper.  One of which is a teacher who left the district to go to Butler Tech as an adminstrator of some kind, with the pay to go with it.  She got cut and MCSD hired her back, matching her previous salary from Butler Tech, not in alignment with the schedule.  How is this possible? In my opinion, MCSD has too many chiefs and not enough indians yet it's the indians that are going to get you the scores you so desperately need. You handicap teachers with cuts and minimal supplies, principals are dinged in their evaluations if they suspend the hoodlums, how on earth to you expect things to get better?
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tracyl,if your post could be factually verified, would be interesting to take your post to the school board meeting, read it verbatim and ask for some answers.

What about this information Ms. Andrew? Any truth in these statements? Could we get a response from the Superintendent on this? He and others in the school system owe the taxpaying public an explanation. We have a right to know what is going on in the schools we are funding. There appears to be alot of internal turmoil that is kept from the public if tracyl is on target.
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If you cut and paste the link at the bottom of my last post, you will be taken to the article in the Enquirer. There is an interactive link where you are able to put in the school district you want the information about and select the information by county. This information came from the Ohio Department of Education. They do not fudge the numbers and beat around the bush like Middletown City Schools.

Thank you Tracyl for bringing all those questions forth, although I doubt you will ever get a straight answer. If anything is ever questioned, the answer usually is, "That/they are paid through grant money". That makes it unquestionable by taxpayers in the school board eyes.

Kathy Jonas is also in charge of the libraries, heard she was paid an additional $5,000.00 a year to be the "library coordinator" and never contacted one person who worked in the library, never held a meeting, etc. but at the end of the year recommended that all those positions be cut and now the libraries are a mess. I have heard that one school actually has a certified teacher taking a class to the library when the library staff that was cut made 1/3 of a teachers pay. How is that saving money? This year Jonas is in charge of the one librarian who is left but I bet she is still getting that $5,000.00 stipend at the end of the school year. So now, the school district is going to fill those library positions again next year?!?

Jonas is also in charge of professional development for the certified staff. Being paid as much as she is, you would think she would have the knowledge to hold these sessions herself but instead, the school district HIRES outside people to come and teach the information.

She's not the only employee the taxpaying public should question. How about Ms. Grome (may be incorrectly spelled)? She was hired several years ago by Lisa Lowery for a position at an elementary school but she was hired when an employee who was laid off should have been called back. When that employee filed a grievance with the union, sure enough, it was her right to have the job but they had already signed a contract with Grome so she was put in the admin building and given a title. Of course, she has been given another contract and is making the big bucks but she isn't listed anywhere on the school website. What does she do? A better question, who does she know?

Is it true that the new Mayfield principal hired one of her friends from Cincinnati to be the "academic coach" at Mayfield? That's the way it works in this district.

And please don't get me started about the football coach WHO DOESN'T EVEN TEACH and makes $80,0000.00 a year. He's checking tardy students, a job a classified person had at one time who made $25,000.00 a year but the job was given to the last football coach who was hired and didn't have a certificate to teach high school. I guess we should overlook all of that since the team did so well.....

The waste goes on and on in this school district and they have enough nerve to think about asking us for more money? Either the school board is being snowed by the administrators who tell them what they want to hear or the board is just turning a blind eye to all the issues.

I don't think it's "internal turmoil" vet, I think that the school district employees/administrators have found out, years ago, what they can get away with, and have/are taking advantage of us, the taxpayers.

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Jsmith Jonas no longer does professional developments because teachers, through surverys stated they spent entirely too much time outside of the classroom with her and Eve Hayes (the person you speak of who was hired to do them). Now, no one seems to kniw what she does to earn the money she makes. No one sees her and when you ask her for supplies ordered FOR students, you don't get an answer. She was just renewed by the way.

Speaking of waste, does anyone know what exactly is MCSD's policy concerning special education?
Are they full inclusion? No one seems to know. All that is known is that there are special ed students in classrooms with little to no intervention during math and reading and IEP's are being written not according to needs but staffing, which is completely illegal.

Vey, jsmith is right. You won't get answers unless a lot of people start getting loud about this. Teachets can confirm a lot of what is being said,but good luck fnding one not afraid to confirm.
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Sooo... the question is the same as getting the message out to the community about the city's unannounced agenda.......how do we go about stirring enough anger in the community about this for the school board (and council) to take notice that the people are fed up? We all know the Journal is the city's journalistic prostitute, told what to report on by the city leaders. We also know that there is no organized resistance to what is going on in the town as well as the schools. A community newsletter to actually report the truth would be a starting point. Need stories from the posts of those in the know about "behind the scenes" activities such as this, need them placed in newsletter form, printed, titled "What They Don't Want You To Know" and distributed to all areas of town (or pay the post office bulk mail rates to deliver them on the routes) Not enough people read this forum to attract the numbers needed to make the city and schools stand up and take notice. Now, how do we get the ball rolling on this, assuming there is enough interest? Someone know a printer? Good on the computer to organize the information and place it in newsletter form? How about postage for bulk mailing? Is it worth it?
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tracyl,
What is your take on the discipline situation under this administration?  More cowardly sweeping under the rug?
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Bill I can only say that in some ways it is getting better but when the principals take a hit on their yearly evaluations for suspensions then what do you think happens? Would you be motivated to boot out the serial offenders? They are still there, all the way down to the elementary level, with their parents who have to take zero responsibility.   That is why Highview is getting an assistant principal, she has her hands full. The elementary loaded up to almost full capacity, with an ED unit full of runners isn't going to get any help though, just more of the ED students. As long as they are handled and no one else has to do it right? There is a lot going on in the district that public just does not know.
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traceyl----with your detailed knowledge of the school system, do you believe it is justifiable to have new schools built as part of Phase 2?
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Due to the fact that the school district made the decision to close Highview as an elementary school and then farm out those students to other elementaries, the school district has created another bigger problem for themselves. Elementary schools are now overcrowded.

Some schools are going to need to add additional classes next year in some grade levels and do not have room for them. One school is considering putting students on the stage?!? What type of learning environment is that? It doesn't matter if it is English or Art, it isn't right.

New schools were built, with our money, they weren't large enough to begin with. One school, Highview, was open several years and then was remodeled for older students. Then they wanted to argue that the cost was not extreme. Whatever the cost, it was a waste of money. Now they want to build more schools which will make Highview obsolete AGAIN and it will be remodeled AGAIN for younger students.



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Originally posted by jsmith2011 jsmith2011 wrote:

Due to the fact that the school district made the decision to close Highview as an elementary school and then farm out those students to other elementaries, the school district has created another bigger problem for themselves. Elementary schools are now overcrowded.

Some schools are going to need to add additional classes next year in some grade levels and do not have room for them. One school is considering putting students on the stage?!? What type of learning environment is that? It doesn't matter if it is English or Art, it isn't right.

New schools were built, with our money, they weren't large enough to begin with. One school, Highview, was open several years and then was remodeled for older students. Then they wanted to argue that the cost was not extreme. Whatever the cost, it was a waste of money. Now they want to build more schools which will make Highview obsolete AGAIN and it will be remodeled AGAIN for younger students.





I don't remember reading anywhere that the musical chair usage was occuring at Highview. Not in the Journal that I recall. Who is in charge of the building student alignment- IE, capacity, grades occupying the building, and usage? Milt Thompson is the Manager of the buildings as to maintenance but not occupancy, right? If this was the decision of the Super and the School Board, they certainly have a cluster going on at Highview, don't they? This info. needs to be broadcasted to the public when they get ready to go for their Phase 2 building fiasco. If this is the result of Phase I, we don't need to see Phase 2, do we? May we have an explanation concerning this Ms. Andrew? Reasons for this activity at Highview?
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Highview was an elementary school K-5 (and a high performing one) but last year the school board decided to make it a 6th Grade school only so all of those K-5 students from Highview were assigned to other existing elementaries. I don't know how many students it involved but I'm guessing about 400? Now, instead of walking across the street or down the road, they are bused to Amanda, Miller Ridge, etc. etc. No one at Highview was happy about the decision. Not the parents who had to have their children bussed to the other end of town, not the staff, who were moved several times from Roosevelt, Jefferson and other schools when they closed.

So, the school board closed Verity (in anticipation of building a new high school there) although we weren't fully aware of their reasons at that time.

I couldn't understand why they didn't just send the 6th grade students back to their original home elementary schools. At one time, the elementary schools were K-6 but then the school board decided to send 6th grade to the junior highs. They were going to be adding more students in the elementary schools no matter what, why not send the 6th grade back, eliminate the need for all the extra bussing, moving and renovating and leave Highview alone?

I believe now I know the answer. The Phase 2 building project had not been presented to the public at that point.

What a good selling point....need a new junior high to accomodate the 6th, 7th and 8th grade students and convert Highview back to elementary due to overcrowding issues.
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Yes, there are a few school board members quite keen on closing Vail, while Cincinnati State is moving downtown, but the school board thinks it is an "unseemly" area. Go figure. So, they waste money to build. What a disappointment the school board and city council are in Middletown.
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Originally posted by VietVet VietVet wrote:

Information from jsmith......Middletown - Highest paid average salary for administrators
Middletown - Highest Administrator Cost per Pupil
BUT -- Out of the 10 Butler County Districts that are compared Middletown is in the bottom 1/2 with the number of pupils per administrator.
These comparisons are based on data from 2011 from the Ohio Dept. of Ed. This school year Middletown increased the number of administrators and they have a job announcement on their website to hire another for next year. One of the jobs that were previously cut due to budget constraints in being filled again

If true, could you explain why we have this situation with regard to administrator salaries and cost per pupil, Ms. Andrew? How does the district justify this especially when considering the end results on performance? Why is the school district hiring a person to fill the same position previously cut? Is there other information that we aren't aware of? Please explain.


While we are on the subject of positions within the school system, the April 14th edition of the Journal has this in it's "Re-do bullying" program.

"Middletown Schools senior director of leadership Sam Ison........"

And pray tell, what would a Director of Leadership do on a daily basis for the money we are paying for the salary? What is the taxpayer getting for our money here? This is what has always angered me about the layers upon layers of upper echelon positions here. On the surface, this would appear to be another, "let's create a position for a buddy" scenario. How about incorporating "leadership" in the superintendents job responsibilities and eliminating this position?
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VV: according to middletowncityschools.com, Mr. Ison's position is listed as Sr. Director of INSTRUCTIONAL Leadership. His duties include discipline, suspensions/expulsions, Special Education (IEPs), attendance, and "bullying." This department is different from the Department of Learning (which is curriculum-based). All of the school districts comparable in size to Middletown that I am aware of have a designated Assistant---or Associate---Superintendent in this position, and not a "Director." Respectfully, Rick Shaffer
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Rick, don't expect to Vet to simply do a little research on the MCSD website. Ranting is more fun.

My complaint is that Mr. Ison apparently does not have a very taxing schedule since there are minimal suspensions and very no expulsions, from what many say. Why should anyone want to enroll here when the inmates run the asylum?
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Borrowing from Abraham Maslow's theory on self actualization and needs,
 
"when the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem appears to be a nail."
 
Within city hall and MCSD with the Board, they only have a hammer in hand, and a nail to drive home.
'An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.' - Winston Churchill
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Originally posted by Stanky Stanky wrote:

Rick, don't expect to Vet to simply do a little research on the MCSD website. Ranting is more fun.

My complaint is that Mr. Ison apparently does not have a very taxing schedule since there are minimal suspensions and very no expulsions, from what many say. Why should anyone want to enroll here when the inmates run the asylum?


Gee Stanky, I wouldn't characterize my post as "ranting". (yeah, it's fun by the way) Just asking a question that someone of knowledge about the schools could answer. Why does everything have to be researched when a simple question could produce the same results? Just seems to me that there are quite a few positions like Director of Instruction, Director of Curriculum and others that seem like they could be incorporated into other positions, saving the taxpayer some money. Since we all pay into the system to fund these types of jobs, we all have a right to know, don't we?

Ironically, you state....

"My complaint is that Mr. Ison apparently does not have a very taxing schedule since there are minimal suspensions and very no expulsions, from what many say"

This statement could be taken as asking the same thing I said....ie.....what does this guy do with his time to earn his money?

Then follow it with a school complaint (rant in your words) ......

"Why should anyone want to enroll here when the inmates run the asylum?"

You jump my a-- for ranting, then turn around and bitch about the schools too.
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