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BURBANK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT QUALITY TEACHER, STAFF, AND SCHOOLS MEASURE 8/2/19

Help support high-quality Burbank schools by retaining excellent teachers/staff, maintaining small class sizes, and expanding career/college courses, art, music, science, and innovative programs.

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BURBANK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT QUALITY TEACHER, STAFF, AND SCHOOLS MEASURE 8/2/19

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  1. BURBANK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT QUALITY TEACHER, STAFF, AND SCHOOLS MEASURE8/2/19

  2. Burbank Unified School District (BUSD) schools continue to be recognized as high achieving schools • According to the California Department of Education’s School Dashboard, BUSD is performing at the top two levels for College and Career Readiness, High School Graduation, English Language Arts, and Mathematics.

  3. Vision 2032 By 2032 the students attending BUSD schools will be prepared to excel in a complex, inter-connected, changing world through schools that: • Foster creativity. • Challenge students in all subject areas. • Encourage critical thinking and innovation. • Enhance students’ ability to communicate globally and problem solve. • Prepare them to monitor their own physical and mental wellbeing and when to seek help. • Reflect and celebrate diversity. • Foster belonging. • Become models of sustainability.

  4. Vision 2032 All students will graduate: • As thoughtful, creative, innovative, resilient, and life-long learners. • Having had access to flexible programs and curriculum to be career and college ready; taking into account their unique goals and aspirations and recognizing the importance of bi-literacy and biculturalism. • Being comfortable with who they are, and feel safe to express their identities with themselves, their families, their peers, their educators. • Being culturally, morally and socially responsible. • Having the tools/knowledge to define their own pathways, have access to those pathways, and be empowered to explore. • Being technology literate and good digital citizens. • Able to critically understand local, national, and international history and connect the past to future decisions.

  5. Instructional Goals • Our teaching starts with planning units around big ideas and essential questions. • Our teaching is culturally responsive. • Our teaching connects to students interests and activates passions. • Our teaching supports rich literacy in all content areas. • From pre-assessment to summative assessment, we use consistent, varied, and ongoing formative assessment to inform instruction and measure student growth. • In all content areas, we guide all students to construct viable, evidence-based arguments and to critique the reasoning of others. • In all content areas, we offer students multiple and varied opportunities for collaboration and discourse in order to help them build effective communication skills.

  6. Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) Goals • Students will be career/college ready via high quality instruction • Students will be physically, emotionally and mentally healthy • Recruit and retain quality employees • Efficient and effective operations

  7. The “Silent Recession” (Krausen and Willis, 2018) “Despite projected increases in state and local education funding between 2017/18 and 2021/22 California school districts face fiscal pressures that threaten to destabilize school district budgets and force reductions in services to students.” After adjusting for inflation, schools are now only receiving 2007-08 levels of funding.

  8. BUSD Receives Less Funding than Surrounding Districts

  9. BURBANK UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT QUALITY TEACHER, STAFF, AND SCHOOLS MEASURE To maintain high-quality Burbank schools by retaining excellent teachers/staff; small class sizes; and maintain/expand career/college courses, art, music, science, innovative programs, safety and wellness support, shall this Burbank Unified School District measure to levy $0.10 per square foot of improved property per parcel annually, exempting seniors/certain disability recipients, providing approximately $9,100,000 annually for 12 years and requiring independent oversight/audits, be approved?”

  10. Potential Local Revenue Generation $9.1 million • Funding is protected and dedicated to Burbank Unified schools only • $0.10 per square foot of improved property – average home of 1,700 sq. ft. would pay $170 per year • Individuals who are 65 or older and who own and live in their property can file an exemption • Persons with disabilities receiving supplemental security income for a disability can file an exemption

  11. If the Measure doesn’t pass… Potential reductions in addition to the $3.5 million we already made: • Class Size increases • Career Technical Education courses • Elementary Music • Middle and High School Arts • Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program • Elementary PE program • Middle School Spanish courses • Technology supports

  12. If the $9.1 million local funding measure passes… Prevent the potential cuts, and focuses on additional supports/ programs for teachers, staff, and students. • Attract and retain quality teachers and staff (42-47%) • Maintain low class sizes (2-7%) • Maintain and expand career and college courses, art, music, science, and innovative programs (38-43%) • Maintain and increase safety and wellness support (9-13%).

  13. 1. Attract and Retain Employees (42-47%)Three Year Increase in Maximum Salary for Teachers with Credentials Based upon 2017-18 data

  14. 2. Maintain Low Class Size 2-7% of the revenues of this Measure shall be dedicated annually to maintaining manageable class sizes. Revenues from this Measure will support small class sizes in a manner which may not be achieved solely with support from the District's General Fund.

  15. 3. Maintain and expand career and college courses, art, music, science, and innovative programs 38-43 % of the Available Revenues of this Measure shall be dedicated to maintaining and expanding instructional programs that support the skills needed for careers and college. • Career Technical Education courses • Foreign languages • Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM), including coding • Instructional Technology via master plan • Music and Arts via master plan • Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) via master plan • Supporting Special Education via master plan

  16. 4. Maintain and increase safety and wellness support 9-13% of the available revenues of this Measure shall be dedicated to maintaining and expanding safety and wellness support. • School based mental health counseling • Safety: Campus upgrades, supplies and supervision • Custodial support • Elementary PE teachers

  17. Accountability • 12 year term – so that the voters can ensure funding is meeting the needs of the community • Independent oversight committee • Annual independent performance audit • Annual independent financial audit

  18. Questions/Comments?

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