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Wyoming Central School

Wyoming Central School. Options for survival. The survival of WCS is in question.

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Wyoming Central School

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  1. Wyoming Central School Options for survival

  2. The survival of WCS is in question • Dr. Stephen Uebbing was asked to examine specific options available to the Wyoming Central School District. The Board of Education, through the superintendent, asked Dr. Uebbing to examine the following options from a cost and programmatic basis: • Eliminate full-day kindergarten • Eliminate non-mandated music and art • Consolidate grade levels • Reduce the number of tuitioning high schools • Participate fully in central business office • Tuition middle school children • Tuition all children • Dissolve district • Rethink superintendency • Rethink guidance/CSE services • Reduce program to mandated offerings • Become a charter school

  3. Why do this study? • Wyoming continues to experience declining enrollment. • Wyoming continues to experience increased costs for employee benefits, special education and state mandates. • Wyoming faces a huge gap between its allowable tax cap and its program needs. • Wyoming has limited reserves. • Wyoming is already doing everything it can think of to be efficient

  4. Wyoming will not be able to exist within the tax cap…the following is a hypothetical projection.

  5. WCSD Starts with a low TVTR

  6. What does this tell us? • Wyoming could remain as is, build additional efficiencies into its structure and end up with a tax rate similar to typical tax rates in Genesee County. • However, this may require ongoing overrides by the community and end up with much higher school taxes than current.

  7. Enrollment is declining Enrollment was 167 in 2011

  8. Option: Hire a new SOS and share guidance and CSE This implies best case for the first year

  9. Share a SOS and Guidance and hire a principal Again, best case year one only

  10. Form a District Partnership Agreement

  11. Tuition out middle school

  12. Consolidate Grade Levels • This is a viable option given current enrollment and trends. • It would be very difficult to meet state curriculum guidelines in blended grade level classrooms, but it can be done • The district would need to make a real commitment to professional development to accomplish this option.

  13. Reduce program to mandated levels • Eliminate kindergarten • Eliminate music education k-6 with certified teachers • Eliminate art education k-6 with certified teachers • We do not recommend any of these options.

  14. Charter Schools • Charter schools are secular, tuition-free public schools that are operated as independent education corporations formed for this purpose. Charter schools are financed through public local, state, and federal funds but are independent of public school district boards of education. The authority of the charter school to provide public education is through a "charter agreement," a type of contract, between the charter school board of trustees and its chartering entity. The New York State Board of Regents is one of the two statewide chartering entities (also known as “authorizers”)—the other being the State University of New York Board of Trustees—who can currently issue new charters. Charter schools typically focus on innovative curricula, a new approach to school organization, or some other features that differentiate them from traditional district schools.

  15. Purpose of Charter Schools • Education Law 2850(2) defines the purpose of Charter schools as follows: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with a special emphasis on students who are at risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for educators; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule-based to performance-based accountability systems.

  16. Become a charter school? • Wyoming can not convert the entire school district to a charter district. • The district (or any number of entities) can start apply to start a charter school, but it is not clear that the application would be accepted. • There would be a separate charter board…and not all WCSD students might want to attend the charter school.

  17. Dissolve the District • The only way to do this is to become a non operating district much as Piseco Lake did this year. • You still have full responsibilities for your students • That means you still have to tuition all of them.

  18. Tuition Rates

  19. Other ideas • Fully implement the CBO • Reduce the number of tuition partners

  20. Options • Continue as is…and hope for more state aid and/or budget overrides • Make incremental changes…share central positions • Reconsider reorganization

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