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MDUSD Awarded $14.8 Million in Grants
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In an announcement on August 24, 2010, it was confirmed that four MDUSD schools will receive a combined $14.8 million in School Improvement Grants (SIG). The MDUSD was originally shut out of the competition due to rule changes after grant applications were submitted, despite the fact that the scoring of our grant applications were higher, in some cases
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significantly higher, than other districts who had applied for the same grant money. The four schools slated to receive grant money are Bel Air Elementary, Shore Acres Elementary, Rio Vista Elementary, and Glenbrook Middle School. This grant money, along with the plans put in place to ensure success at these schools, will play a key role in the success of our students. The fact that these four schools submitted grants that were scored so highly is a testament to the great work that was done putting together plans for success.
Now the catch. It also appears that our district, these schools, and most importantly, the kids that attend these schools, will not receive the grant money and start to feel the benefits of the grants until the Legislature and the Governor pass a budget. We were supposed to have a budget in June. It is now almost September and still there is no sign of a budget in sight. 2008 was the worst budget adoption date which was September 23, second was 2003 when a budget was adopted on September 9.
Establishing the State budget is the most basic responsibility of our State Legislature and Governor and they can't or won't compromise and get that job done. California is one of only three states that require a 2/3rds majority to pass a budget. That means that 14 Senators can block all of the work of the Legislature and the Governor. Only Arkansas and Rhode Island have a requirement similar to the California 2/3rds majority rule and even those two States allow education spending and education budgets to continue while the overall budget is worked on. Along with the SIG money that will be tied up, the Federal Jobs money may be tied up as well, which will keep our school district from making necessary decisions about expenditures that will help our students.
We need a change in California. We need to abandon minority rule in the State Legislature and establish real budget process reforms in the State of California. It's bad enough that the cuts to education in the State of California over the last several years are worse than cuts made during the great depression. It is inexcusable that during a time of the most sever cuts in history, our Legislature won't do their job. We are on the verge of having to make even more cuts and impacting our kids even more severely, if we had a State budget and the money that has already been promised, we might be able to avoid a great number of those further cuts.
There are budget votes scheduled on August 31 in the legislature, but neither side is willing to approve the plan of the other. So far, there is no compromise in sight. The Legislature is scheduled to end this years' session on August 31. The Governor is scheduled to leave for a trade visit in Asia on September 9. Our Legislature and our Governor should forget everything else for now and they should be working 7 days a week on the budget until it is done. The budget debates should all be done in public and be televised. There should be no Democratic/Republican caucuses to discuss partisan budget solutions. Just like we on the School Board can't get together in private and discuss the budget that impacts your children, our Legislature needs to discuss the budget in public that impacts everyone in the State. The children in our State deserve better from their State Representatives.
MDUSD - Mt. Diablo Unified School District Blog
8/28/2010
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