And once again the puppets are back begging for money. The arguments have remained the same and the bleeding hearts will all be back again to tell us it’s all about the children…..
As we stated in 2007, the last time the board tried to ram through a levy request during an odd year election, the endless demands of the public unions are not sustainable. We all knew it in 2007 and now just three years later the activities in Madison and other states have afirmed that in these economic and political times this endless escalation is now completely understood to be unsustainable. Steps, lanes, watered down curricula and relentless demands for more and more will not be well received in a commnit that is struggling to pay the grocery bill…..
This board has lost it’s mind in thinking about asking for more in an even worse political and economic climate. Maybe it’s time to get that billboard dusted off and back in use.
Funny thing, in 2007 we were paying a seasoned 15 year veteran superintendent more than the governor….Now we are paying a rookie — first year super — even more….What is this board thinking?
Just checked out the MN Department of Education site and it seems that our salary information is out-dated. It’s hard to keep pace with those rising teacher salaries.
Looks like since 2007 when this was first unveiled out on Highway 10, the average teacher salary has risn to $52,431….Time just never stands still for a Union contract….
So at (2,700×207)=558,900 for increasing salaries , $350,000 for All-Day-K and another half milion in losses of revenue to Royalton and we come up with the magic number $1.5M.
Yep that’s right the levey amount.
But wait that doesn’t include the increases in benefits, staff salaries and benefits, administrators….sounds like they are going to be in the red even if they get the money…..Ughhh