School Budget Cuts

Economics Economics Questions
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My school district, as many are, is in a fiscal crisis, too see some of their releases on the matter, see here:

http://www.arlingtonschools.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=271&Itemid=1

Its tough as 85% of the budget is teacher salaries and benefits, and they just signed a 2 year contract with a 6.2% pay increase per year.

Any other ideas/discussion for cuts?

I wrote a letter to the board, see it here:

http://docs.google.com/a/kylepeabody.com/Doc?id=d574kwv_74g57wnnsd

Thanks

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Sports? Perhaps you could find an outside funding source for your sports team. The publicity of helping a sports team stay alive may be more than worth the cost for some local businesses.

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Wow, that is absolutely sick. A union in the public sector is the most ass backwards thing I have ever seen.

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And something like 36% of government employees are unionized as opposed to something like 7% of private sector employees. I know here in the U.S. there is some law on the books that encourages unionization of government employees.

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Sell ad space.