SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT BOS PRESENTATION FOR FY 2023 1.5.22 TO COB.PPTX

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Superintendent
FY 2022-2023
Budget Presentation
January 10, 2022

Continuing the Transformation
Focusing on the following areas has the 
biggest impact on improving K12 education:
• Create systems to connect the 
community to the schools.
• Find the right school for every child.
• Develop creative solutions to increase 
classroom spending.
• Nurture supportive and positive work 
environments and improve the teaching 
experience.

Looking Forward

Communications and Outreach
•Communications and social media footprint 
are up by 35%
•Request to add one position for design 
production.
• We need a specialist who can craft and 
design digital products that support the 
direct services.

Detention Education
•Working to resolve the Detention Center 
Education Fund (15-913.D)
– Funded by State formula (revenue 
source).
•Detention Education Transition Facilitator
–Program is in place and operating.

Detention Education Budget
•Funding:
– $700K special revenue
– $436K grants
•FTE’s 
– 13 special revenue,  6 Grants, 3 Transition 
Facilitation Specialists
•Working with Juvenile Detention and the courts to 
fund additional para-professional staff.

County Accommodation School
A Two-Pronged Approach To Education 
Reform:
1. Create high-quality, accessible education 
for students  “who are unable to profit 
from the regular school course of study 
and environment” as authorized by ARS 
§15-308
2. Create a laboratory of radical education 
reform that reduces administrative 
overhead and empowers operational and 
instructional decisions to be made by

County Accommodation School
70-85% of students are: 
– Chronically suspended.
– Expelled
– Experienced behavior incidents that cause a 
disconnection from school. 
15-30% of students are:
–Family members of the above disengaged 
students
–Families getting all their children to one school

County Accommodation School
Teacher-Led Schools:
– No building principal.
– No district-level curriculum, assessment, 
or professional development positions.
– Year-round teacher-leaders. Non-
instructional days are used for 
administrative tasks.
– Robust Site Council to elevate parent and 
student voice in decision-making.

Current educational model requires 
county supplemental funding.
Getting closer to resolving funding 
request from FY 2022 Budget request.
County Accommodation School

Supplemental funding of $2.1M annually and 
Consolidate administration into the county 
school superintendent's office:
– 2 FTEs and support services: 
approx. $278,000.
– Grant funds approx. $600,000 plus one-
time 
ESSER funds through 2024.
County Accommodation School

Department Grant Fund
September 30, 2021
– End of Teacher Incentive Grants (since 
2010).
– Reduction of 50 positions (32 actual 
FTE’s).
Opportunity for funding of 20 FTE’s for 
mitigation of COVID learning loss.

Other Operations
One-time fund balance use (5 FTE’s)
– Special Revenue fund 790.
– One-time revenue from ESSER funds.
– A consortium for teacher effectiveness.
– approx. $519K non-operating.
One-time fund balance use (1 FTE)
- Special Revenue fund 782 approx. $119K non-operating

Other Operations
Current lease expires June 2023. 
– Funding increase of $338,329 annually 
required (assumes current lease value).
– Currently, working with Public Health to 
offset cost and provide space they need.

FY 2023 Financial Summary

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