Sedona AZ (January 14, 2016) – The following is a letter to the SedonaEye.com editor:
The Sedona-Oak Creek School district is facing some very tough choices this year. Over the next 3 years we are facing a budget cut of 1.2 million dollars from our less than 8 million dollar budget. The Board was presented with 5 potential scenarios that may meet this financial goal. You can find the financial details of these options on our website http://www.sedona.k12.az.us/.
It is vital that we hear from the community, parents and staff about the academic, extracurricular and social impacts of these options. Please attend the board work session on Jan 26th at 4 p.m. in the West Sedona School Multipurpose room. You can also find our email addresses on the District website. Please remember that you need to provide all of us with the same information at a board meeting or in writing.
I ask the whole community, board members, district employees and our constituents to put past disagreements behind them and help us ensure that ALL of our students receive the first class education they are entitled to and that our dedicated and outstanding staff can provide. We must look forward and not dwell on past mistakes or decisions. Our District has award winning and nationally recognized programs now and we must be sure these programs are available to all our students in future year.
Karen McClelland
Vice-President, Sedona-Oak Creek School Board
Sedona AZ 86351
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You have a budget cut because you have less students.
You have less students because Sedona has become more of a tourist trap and less family friendly. Look at the new hotel being built RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET from the beautiful Sedona High School . That sends a message to prospective resident parents where the towns priorities are.
Unless Sedona changes, there will be no kids in your district soon. It’s not a money problem, it’s a student problem.
@jess We’ve never seen a community allow a hotel/motel/state facility for juveniles and or adults next to a school of any kind! An adult resident facility proposed next to our elementary school in California wasn’t allowed on a safety basis! In California a homeless shelter can’t be built in areas without mass public transit systems and an appropriate percentage of contracted jobs, a school with its vulnerable population is never allowed next to adult or transient facilities. There’s a federal guideline even! And they built in Sedona a transient facility next to the high school which is what a hotel/motel is! My brother in law in Boulder was appalled to learn that a Marriott franchiser got approval and wondered who was paid off!! Foothills residents should be ashamed as should be Les Springs with its CVS. Two areas now destroyed because the city didn’t stick to its vision of commercial and residential development, Foothills will regret it when Marriott’s place becomes run down. Another lost opportunity for quality control. And a danger for our children. Pedophiles & drug dealers love hotels/motels facilities near schools – easy to lure & deal from and to. Now the intersection at the school is even more dangerous with increased users! Who cares? No one in city government.
Easy for Afternoon Delights
@karen As a former teacher no longer living in AZ, I question your administration’s competency. Where has the board been? Department of public instruction the past dozen years? The shame of this becomes lack of trust in the public school system. It seems earned.
Thanks to this President and his administration we’ve had 8 yrs of declining standard of living. Who knew?!
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If you ask teachers and parents, it’s the Board and the Superintendent.
Do you know how much money your school district spends per child? On average, school districts in Arizona spend over $9,400 per student annually from local, state, and federal sources.
This is important information, especially for voters in bond and override elections. That is why Americans for Prosperity-Arizona is supporting H.B. 2551 in partnership with State Representative Jay Lawrence (Scottsdale, Fountain Hills). H.B. 2551 will require election pamphlets to provide the total per pupil spending figure of your school district for any bond and override elections.