State Legislators announced yesterday that there would not be a special session. Gov. Gregoire had requested a one-day special session so legislators could address some budget-related bills that hadn't yet been acted on.
That short list of bills included one that would have increased the levy lid for school districts. For the Stanwood-Camano School District, that would have meant an additional $149,666 it could have collected next year, according to 2009-10 budget estimates released at the Tuesday school board meeting.
School districts can only collect levy dollars equal to 24 percent of what they receive from the state. If the amount of state funding goes down, so does the maximum amount the district can collect.
In the 2008-09 school year, the Stanwood-Camano School District's levy represented about 18.4 percent of its total revenue at about $9 million.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
School district administration
As part of "Shedding some light on school district administration," an article in today's Stanwood-Camano NEWS, I did public record requests to the Stanwood-Camano School District, Arlington Public Schools and the Mount Vernon School District. The result of that was more information than I could possibly use in the story.
To help myself compare numbers, I made tables based on the provided information. I have posted two of them here.
Not all the positions in the tables are considered administration by the district. Counselors are certificated (like teachers) and the public information coordinator is a classified position (like bus drivers, food service employees, paraeducators...).
The Stanwood-Camano School District provided me with a comparison of the total compensation for superintendent salaries for this year for the districts that Stanwood-Camano uses to determine Superintendent Jean Shumate's salary. Shumate's salary is determined by the Stanwood-Camano School Board. They examine the contacts for superintendents in other districts, and take the average of the total compensation. This includes benefits, annuity, doctoral stipends and vacation buy-back. Shumate's 2008-09 salary of $193,608 is based on the 2007-08 total compensation of the other superintendents.
Click on the tables to make them larger if you are having difficulty reading the numbers.
To help myself compare numbers, I made tables based on the provided information. I have posted two of them here.
Not all the positions in the tables are considered administration by the district. Counselors are certificated (like teachers) and the public information coordinator is a classified position (like bus drivers, food service employees, paraeducators...).
The Stanwood-Camano School District provided me with a comparison of the total compensation for superintendent salaries for this year for the districts that Stanwood-Camano uses to determine Superintendent Jean Shumate's salary. Shumate's salary is determined by the Stanwood-Camano School Board. They examine the contacts for superintendents in other districts, and take the average of the total compensation. This includes benefits, annuity, doctoral stipends and vacation buy-back. Shumate's 2008-09 salary of $193,608 is based on the 2007-08 total compensation of the other superintendents.
Click on the tables to make them larger if you are having difficulty reading the numbers.
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