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  • Jay Mathews Challenge
  • Test Results
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  • The 71 Acre site
  • Other school capacity needs
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  • The Budget
  • Schools Budget Priorities
  • New High School Costs To-Date
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The Schools Budget Priorities

• Over the last few years, I have observed a shift in the School Board's funding priorities towards an increase in its administration, which has resulted in a visible loss of focus on the most vital element of any educational budget: the teachers.
  View large version of budget category increases graph
  List of Top Fifteen Employees - Total Compensation FY07
• We need to re-focus on our educational priorities, financially as well as academically. The available funding needs to be re-prioritized and the above trend reversed.
• If elected, I will use the financial and budgeting skills I have acquired in my career to help achieve this aim.

"Such a degree of learning [should be] given to every member of the society as will enable him to read, to judge and to vote understandingly on what is passing."

--Thomas Jefferson to Littleton Waller Tazewell, 1805

"We looked at the problems facing America and realized that if we are going to be a competitive nation, we need a far better educated populace than we have now. The American K-12 public education has gone from No. 1 in the world some 30 years ago, to No. 19. We thought, This is bad for the country and bad for our democracy."

--Eli Broad - multi-billionaire, (founder - SunAmerica). Has now established The Broad Residency in Urban Education.