EASTON SCHOOL DISTRICT EASTON, CONNECTICUT

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EASTON SCHOOL DISTRICTEASTON, CONNECTICUT

• Estimated Costs and Expenditures
• 2008-2009 School Year
• January 10, 2008

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Easton Public Schools Mission Statement

• We are a community of learners. We
• educate students to be successful in
• acquiring the knowledge, skills, and
• Intellectual virtues needed to become caring,
• responsible citizens who value learning for a
• lifetime.

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Priorities2007 2008 Operating Budget

• Advance Personalized Learning
• Improve Student Performance
• Maintain Class Sizes
• Advance Curriculum
• Improve Professional Development
• Maintain Conducive School Environment
• Maintain Facilities

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2007 2008 School Year Progress Made

• Advance Personalized Learning
• Increase use of external assessments (NWEA, ERB)
• Sustained use of data to improve curriculum and
  instruction
• B. Improve Student Performance
• Increased support for students with serious,
  low-incidence disabilities
• Added .4 Assistant Principal at HKMS for
  effective and timely supervision of teaching and
  learning
• Maintain Class Size
• Additional .4 Health/PE teacher at HKMS

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2007 2008 School Year Progress Made

• Advance Curriculum
• Infusion of upgraded technology across the
  curriculum
• replaced 130 teacher workstations and student
  computers in computer labs
• added 50 computers for two new student computer
  labs
• Incorporation of student performance data into
  strategic planning
• Implementation of new state science standards in
  grades 3 through 8

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2007 2008 School Year Progress Made

• Improve Professional Development
• Reading comprehension
• Writing across the curriculum
• Differentiated instruction
• Classroom management
• Technology
• Science
• Inclusion of students with special needs in
  regular education classrooms
• Assessment of student progress reading
  comprehension, grammar and mathematics

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2007 2008 School Year Progress Made

• Maintain Conducive School Environment (Enhance
  School Safety)
• Reinstate one recess aide at SSES
• Maintain Facilities
• .5 custodian added in both HKMS and SSES

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2008 2009Budget Priorities

• Class Size
• Curriculum Alignment
• Personalized Learning
• Social Worker
• Student Data Management System
• Federal and State Special Education Mandates

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2008 2009Continuation of Programs and Services

• Increase in budget needed to maintain current
  programs and services
• 754,715 5.4
• This foundation budget includes
• 1 additional grade 6 teacher
• additional .2 music teacher at HKMS

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Primary Budget Variances(To Maintain Current
Programs and Services)
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2008 2009(Increase in Budget Related to
Improvements)
279,263 2.0
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2008 2009(Increase in Budget Related to New
Programs)

• 52,190 .38

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Comparison of Teachers Contracted Salaries
Percent Increases
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Current and Projected EnrollmentSamuel Staples
Elementary School(Middle Projection)
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Samuel Staples Elementary School Average Class
Size Core Subject Areas
2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07
2007-08 2008-09
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Current and Projected EnrollmentHelen Keller
Middle School(Middle Projection)
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Helen Keller Middle School Average Class Size by
Grade Core Subject Areas
22.7 w/out additional teacher
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Current Working DocumentOverall Increase (This
is not a proposed budget)