DISD loses 64 MILLION dollars!


skyvolt2000

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/091108dnmetdallasisdbudget.62f2203d.html
The Dallas school district has discovered that it?s short about $64 million from last year?s budget and will have to reach into its reserve fund, which will dip dangerously low.
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Dr. Hinojosa also announced a major reorganization of the district?s finance and business services departments and a district-wide hiring freeze.

It will take the district about two or three years to put the money back in reserves, Dr. Hinojosa said. He added that the district will be looking for cuts.
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People have already been fired already although this story doesn't say it.

Somewhere out The CW Network is laughing-they only lost 50 million last year.
 



DISD has financed a lot of furniture and nice homes. There's a lot of corruption going on up there.
 
MACKG said:
DISD has financed a lot of furniture and nice homes. There's a lot of corruption going on up there.
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I wish I was in on the game. I remember back in 1996 when I moved to this area, DISD had just hired a hispanic woman as SUP., and she light up the district for loot.:lmao:
 
Vinita said:
This includes professional jobs, too, from what I've read.
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They need to stay with downtown on Ross before coming to any school and why they are at it cut some of those contracts with vendors that charge 40-80 dollars more for stuff you can get inthe store at a cheaper price.
 
According the the comments, the job fair is to assist those who fall victims to RIF jobs in other places.

DISD is a cluster fukk, and I'd take to hookin' before I'd ever work there again. Every time the people in charge where I work have a brain fart (like making UIL students who take Pre-AP courses exempt from "no pass, no play"), I still find someplace within me that says, "Oh well, at least it ain't DISD."

Damn shame. :shame:
 
Here is what is happening in DeKalb County, Georgia.

AJC article, registration is needed.

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200 school system employees face layoff
Teaching positions protected in plan to save $10.5 million
By KRISTINA TORRES

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Friday, October 10, 2008

More than 200 DeKalb County school system employees learned Friday they may lose their jobs so that the budget-strapped school system can save money.

The proposal by Superintendent Crawford Lewis includes three different options on how to shed those jobs, which range from mid-level administrators to groundskeepers to drivers? education instructors. The job cuts could come as early as soon as December.

The proposal is one of several budget-slashing attempts DeKalb schools face this year in the wake of a sour economy and state funding cuts.

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I can top that Lancaster ISD is losing money and they hade to VOTE on to layoff folks or takeback 2% of the 5% of the pay raise they got. There were folks mad about giving back money to save jobs!
 



MACKG said:
DISD has financed a lot of furniture and nice homes. There's a lot of corruption going on up there.
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Hinajosa decided to give up $16K of his pay. So that brings his pay down to a little over $200K. What a sacrifice. :upset: That's not right. Of all the jobs, teaching was one that was suppopsed to be guaranteed. I'm glad that I didn't move back to Dallas. My friend who works there said that they are getting one month's severance pay and a recommendation. That's a crock of ish.
 
LadyLuck13 said:
Hinajosa decided to give up $16K of his pay. So that brings his pay down to a little over $200K. What a sacrifice. :upset: That's not right. Of all the jobs, teaching was one that was suppopsed to be guaranteed. I'm glad that I didn't move back to Dallas. My friend who works there said that they are getting one month's severance pay and a recommendation. That's a crock of ish.
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A few corrections-
Hinojosa makes $386,000. His salary is double Cedar Hill's head man.

Teachers and counselors will be paid until January 2009. And that includes folk who chose to resign.

And there is a list of who was let go-
http://dallasisdblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/10/the-rif-list-is-here.html

My school only lost 1 teacher and 3 others including a 27 year old decided to resign.

Teaching is the safe job. The trouble is that you have too many folks who are not in the classrooms and not seeing what schools really need. We don't need all these specialists or folks making up jobs for friends to sit around and get paid. And not everyone is meant to be a principal. Bad leadership=high employee turnover.

You can't each kids that don't want to learn or come from messd up homes. You can't deal with parents that don't care and expect you to raise their kids.
 
If any of the members of the school board are voted BACK into office, then DISD and the people of Dallas are getting JUST wtf they need to get.
 
Don't read unless you feel lik crying-

Maple Lawn Elementary teacher Sarah Nour was RIF'd this morning. I just spent about 30 minutes talking with her. It sounds to me like she's handling her termination like a champ, and that her principal gave her the news like a caring professional.

It's what happened, later, in Sarah's first-grade classroom that, frankly, sucks. I'll let Sarah tell the story in her own words because I cannot improve upon them:

"I went back to my classroom with a counselor to say bye. I told them that I'd been reassigned to a new job, and that I didn't want to leave. I told them I wasn't leaving because of anything they did. I told them I wanted them to be great for their new teacher. And then they all started sobbing. It was awful. It was time for them to go to [gym] and they just wouldn't get up from their desks. That's what hurt the most. At that point, I started crying."
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Carter High School had a crappy week-
9 lose their jobs and one teacher died.
http://dallasisdblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/10/carter-high-school-loses-9.html

DISD tries to screw over unemployment benefits ofr RIF folks
http://dallasisdblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/10/the-rif-paperwork-did-yours-sa.html

Teachers fired in front of kids and more.
http://dallasisdblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/10/an-open-post-for-those-who-wer.html

Kindergarten teacher Vanelle Akers, a 23-year vet, was released this afternoon. Rather than go home, she finished out the day.

Late today, she stood outside the school with the last of her students who remained waiting for the bus. Tears welled in the girl's eyes, and her cheeks were red from crying. She held a white poster board titled, "All About Me."

As the bus arrived, Ms. Akers asked the girl if she was ready to go home. She then took her hand and passed the girl to the bus driver.

"Make sure she doesn't forget this," Ms. Akers said, handing the driver the poster.

"Are you safe?" the driver asked the teacher.

"No, I'm not," Ms. Akers replied, before turning around and heading back into the school for the last time.


Tami Cleghorn's got the news at 2 p.m. that she was being let go. She was given the option of returning to her classroom or going home.

She stayed.

For the next hour, the class sat in a circle around here, ate snacks and listened to Ms. Cleghorn read stories.

When the bell rang, she finally broke the news.

"The district is letting go 500 teachers," she recalled telling her class. "And I'm one of them."

Some of her students started to cry.
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Oh and thank you black community of Dallas for your silence during all this mess. It didn't go unnoticed by DISD employees. I'm sure if Hinojosa decided to cut a few sports programs, you would be ready to riot.
I guess education always take a back seat on the hood!
 
skyvolt2000 said:
A few corrections-
Hinojosa makes $386,000. His salary is double Cedar Hill's head man.
Teachers and counselors will be paid until January 2009. And that includes folk who chose to resign.
Thank you for the correction.


My school only lost 1 teacher and 3 others including a 27 year old decided to resign.

Teaching is the safe job. I am a 5th year educator. I agree with you when you say that we hire "superprincipals" and other "support staff to come in our schools and tell another principal what's wrong and right with the school, when the district chooses to hire staff who are supposed to be highly qualified to do their job. The trouble is that you have too many folks who are not in the classrooms and not seeing what schools really need. We don't need all these specialists or folks making up jobs for friends to sit around and get paid. And not everyone is meant to be a principal. Bad leadership=high employee turnover.

You can't each kids that don't want to learn or come from messd up homes. You can't deal with parents that don't care and expect you to raise their kids.You're preaching to the choir. I think I've heard just about every excuse from parents WHY they can't sit down and prioritize their child's academic goals/future. But you can only control what goes on in the classroom.
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Vinita said:
According the the comments, the job fair is to assist those who fall victims to RIF jobs in other places.

DISD is a cluster fukk, and I'd take to hookin' before I'd ever work there again. Every time the people in charge where I work have a brain fart (like making UIL students who take Pre-AP courses exempt from "no pass, no play"), I still find someplace within me that says, "Oh well, at least it ain't DISD."

Damn shame. :shame:
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Very telling.
 
My boy called me last night and told me he was fired. That is a dayum shame because he had nothing to do with that budget shortfall, however he did tell me that 1) more teachers/personnel were RIFFED than what is being reported and 2) over $100 million is missing, not $84 million.
 
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Math mistake sees hundreds of teachers laid off

(CNN) -- The Dallas, Texas, school district laid off hundreds of teachers Thursday to avoid a projected $84 million deficit.

"Today is a day of tremendous sadness throughout the district," Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Michael Hinojosa said in a written statement.

"These teachers and counselors are people who devoted themselves to helping Dallas students, and we will do everything within our power to help them find new jobs."

The district laid off 375 teachers and 40 counselors and assistant principals Thursday, and transferred 460 teachers to other schools within the district.

The deficit was caused by a massive miscalculation in the budget, CNN affiliate WFAA-TV reported.

Children, one crying, crowded Thursday around Mary Crose, a music teacher at San Jacinto Elementary School.

"I've had them since they were in kindergarten," she told The Dallas Morning News, as she wrapped her arms around two of the children. "We've been through a lot at our school, and it's going to be so hard. We need the prayers and support of everyone in Dallas."

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