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Only 5% of TK families responded. How do we better inform TK parents about the survey?

Moving forward, the direct ask for surveys would happen from the classroom teacher in their weekly emails, QR codes that each teacher could have parents scan and take during face to face interactions, conference time, school events, etc.

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The survey only includes families.  What do teachers say they need?

I've added the top three priorities from the staff on to our slide deck. (68% of the teacher staff reporting)
1. SPED support
2. Reading Interventions
3. English Learner support

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Why is the .6 FTE for Prop 28 arts instruction highlighted. (Slide 16)

It is highlighted because it is a new budget item which can potentially add another art teacher for 3 days at WP. This will allow for every student at all grades to get art once a week instead of during a particular semester. We can halve the class load of Ms. Tremblay so one teacher can focus on TK-2 and the other 3-5.

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There is an 27 student increase in enrollment.  Why doesn't the budget increase in response?  The current numbers result in $341 fewer dollars per student.

The funding from last year Spring, 22-23, was $6707 per pupil x 532 = base allocation of $3,568,124

This year's projected budget for 23-24, is $6902 per pupil x 596 students = base allocation of $4,113,592

See slide 17 for comps

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Where is the increase in enrollment coming from?  I think the TK was already included in the original numbers.

That is a good question. The district uses modeling software to come up with a prediction. I took the classes from this year and bumped them up to the next grade level and got about 589.

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When will you find out if the Special Education department will fund an extra .5 FTE.  Do they have any published criteria for this?

We will probably not find out until May. We are still doing initial IEPs to identify new students added to SPED. So, if the district adds the .5 which I believe will reasonably happen we want to put the funds towards other staff but if not, I would want to make that addition to help Jodi Beeman with her new load and to avoid the difficulty of trying to hire a .5 SPED teacher which is near to impossible as I experienced this year.

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It seems like only 20% of families responded.  Is that usual?  What can we do to increase that?

Moving forward, the direct ask for surveys would happen from the classroom teacher in their weekly emails, QR codes that each teacher could have parents scan and take during face to face interactions, conference time, school events, etc.

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Building on questions above, what methods were used to communicate the survey and how long did parents have to respond? How does this compare to prior years?

Same answer as above. Direct ask for surveys from classroom teachers in their weekly emails, QR codes that each teacher could have parents scan and take during face to face interactions, conference time, school events, etc. Roll out the survey in February or January next year to allow for more time. Do not know the comparative numbers. Will check with Ashton.

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It would be beneficial, in my opinion, not to add any more students to 4th /5th grades over summer/ during 23/24.
30 is a lot, any more than that lowers the quality of the service provided to each student in these classes. Can we consider capping at 30 students for 4th / 5th?