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Orientation
Community Engagement ~ Budget Task Force
Denver Public Schools
November 10, 2010
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Presentation Outline
 Purpose Statement
 Key Points
 District’s Strategic Focus
 State of the State & District Finances
 Next Steps
 Appendices
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Purpose Statement
While there are excellent schools in struggling districts and
outstanding classrooms in underperforming schools, today there are
no high-performing urban districts in the United States.
Three key factors heighten the level of concern:
 The rapid pace of economic change.
 A growing awareness that academic skills and knowledge
increase a young person’s chances of leading a productive life.
 The recognition that a poorly educated citizenry erodes not only
the quality of a country’s workforce and its competitiveness, but
undermines the potential of our democracy.
The task force is to articulate guiding principles to the benefit of the
District’s strategic management of its financial resources.
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Key Points
 Severe Fiscal Crisis
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Unprecedented revenue shortfalls
 A Culture of High Expectations, Service, Empowerment &
Responsibility
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Great People
Strategic Management of Resources
Family and Community Engagement
 Instructional Core
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Students
Teachers
Content
 Focus on Results and Creating Long-term Value
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District’s Strategic Focus
 Mission Statement
We will lead the nation’s cities in student achievement,
high school graduation, college preparation, and
college matriculation. Our students will be wellprepared for success in life, work, civic responsibility,
and higher education.
 Instructional Priorities
 Effective teaching to support quality instruction.
 Improve outcomes for English language learners.
 Align standards-based instruction, material and
assessments to meet our diverse students’ needs.
 Provide all students access to high quality education
by improving performance through turnaround
strategies.
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Major Policy Initiatives in Response to Past Challenges
 Align Budget to Denver Plan
 Align Budget Processes to Staffing Calendar
 Competitive Employer / Employer of Choice
 Greater Reliance Upon Student-Based Budgeting ~ Site-Based
Management
 Compensation Philosophy and Practices
- Competitive Base Pay
- ProComp
- Staff Development
 Increasing Operational and Fiscal Transparency
 Focus upon Enrollment and Facility Optimization
 Prudent management of retirement costs
 Service Level Appraisal
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District Strategic Focus – Management Challenges
 Implementing a district-wide strategy when schools
intentionally have different characteristics
 Creating & Achieving a Coherent Organizational Design in
Support of the Strategy
 Developing and Managing Human Capital
 Allocating Resources in Alignment with the Strategy
 Using performance data to guide decisions and create
accountability
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State of the State & District Finances
 State of State
 Economic and Revenue Forecast (September 2010)
 FY2010-11 Budget Balancing
 FY2011-12 Proposed Budget
ARRA
State Fiscal Stabilization Funds
Formula Grants
Ed Jobs Act
$ to save or create education jobs
DPS’ Revenue Story
% of K-12 Education / School Finance Act
Mill Levy Overrides
Fund Balance
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ARRA’s Four Guiding Principles
 Spend funds quickly to save and create jobs
 Improve student achievement through school
improvement and reform
 Ensure transparency, reporting and
accountability
 Invest one-time ARRA funds thoughtfully to
minimize the funding “cliff”
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DPS’ Priorities for School Reform ~ ARRA Aligned
 Making progress toward rigorous college and careerready standards and high-quality assessments that
are valid and reliable for all students, including English
language learners and students with disabilities
 Establishing pre-K-to college and career data systems
that track progress and foster continuous improvement
 Making improvements in teacher effectiveness and in
the equitable distribution of qualified teachers for all
students, particularly students who are most in need
 Providing intensive support and effective interventions
for the lowest-performing schools.
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Ed Jobs Act
 The Education Jobs Fund (Ed Jobs) program is a new
Federal program that provides $10 billion in assistance to
States to save or create education jobs for the 2010-2011
school year. Jobs funded under this program include those
that provide educational and related services for early
childhood, elementary, and secondary education.
 Governor Ritter directed funds to be released ‘through’
the state’s primary education funding formula (as created
through the School Finance Act).
 Colorado received $159,521,991
 Districts access to the funds is on a reimbursement basis
 DPS eligible to receive $15,432,422
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The State, K-12 Education and DPS
 K-12 is roughly 43% (+/-) of State’s General
Fund
 DPS is roughly 10% of Total Program Funding
 PPR: Pupil Count
 Timing
 Composition
 At-Risk
 On-Line
 Kindies
 Full- vs. Part-Time
 Graduate status
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State of the State & District Finances
Capital Program Funding
 Funded out of PPR
 w/out Bond, ability to pay-as-you-go inadequate
 Purpose and Examples of Major Expenditure Commitments:
 Annual IT maintenance agreements hardware and software
 Annual COP payments
 Annual building leases
 Safety and Security
 Contingency
 Under Funded:
 Example: Buses
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Implications:
 Compromise fulfillment of Denver Plan
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DPS’ Budget Cycle: FY2011-12
October
November
Planning
Oct 13 – Dec 8
Prioritization Process to
include community input
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December
January
Preparation
Dec 16 –District
Puts/Takes Review
February
March
April
School &
Department Level
Budget Development
Jan 12- Final Feb 4 & 11 - Budget Feb 7 – 18
Forms distributed One-on-one with
Budget
Decisions
Principals
Feb 14 – Mar 11
One-on-one with
Dept Mgrs
May
Finalization
April 4 – 22
Budget Reviews
Challenges this year
– Budget cuts
– New Programs and Schools – how to identify funding
What will make this successful?
– Executive Team – Determine threshold for cuts to schools in SBB by December 16th
– Standardize department prioritization process and complete by December 8 th
Key Dates:
– Final Decisions on additional services to decentralize for innovation – December 3rd
– Community Task Force Guiding Principles – December 8th
– Innovation schools select autonomies – December 16th
– Adopted –May 31
May 2– Proposed
Budget Due
May 31- Adopted
Budget Due
Task Force’s Next Steps
 Task Force’s Charter:
The Task Force is being asked to articulate guiding principles
to facilitate the strategic management of District resources.
 Means:
 Develop an understanding of current fiscal environment.
 Articulate guiding principals that reflect such fiscal
realities rather than goals that merely maintain the status
quo.
 Next Steps
 Ask Questions
 In the interim, familiarize yourself to own level of interest
with Appendices
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Task Force’s Next Steps ~ Future Meetings
 Meeting # 2, November 17th
 SBB in Detail
 Meeting #3, December 1st
 Short- and Long-Term Views
 Prioritization Frameworks
 Informed Trade-Offs
 Meeting #4, December 8th
 Guiding Principles
 Close
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Appendices ~ Reference Materials
DPS
 The Denver Plan ~ Executive Summary
http://2010denverplan.dpsk12.org/pdf/DPS_10_Bro_Engli
sh.pdf
 Task Force Documents
 School Finance ~ A to Z
 Student Based Budgeting
http://budgetoffice.dpsk12.org/
PELP
 Coherence Framework
http://www.hbs.edu/pelp/framework.html
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Appendices ~ Reference Materials
CDE
 Understanding Colorado School Finance and Categorical Program Funding
http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdefinance/download/pdf/FY201011BrochureWeb.pdf
 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
http://www.cde.state.co.us/scripts/federalstimulus/index.asp
 Education Jobs Bill of 2010
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/educationjobsfund/index.html
Colorado Legislative Council Staff, Economics Section
 Focus Colorado: Economic and Revenue Forecast (September 20, 2010)
http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?blobcol=urldata&blobheader=applicati
on%2Fpdf&blobkey=id&blobtable=MungoBlobs&blobwhere=1251657800454
&ssbinary=true
Governor’s Office of State Planning and Budgeting
 Governor’s FY2010-11 Budget Balancing Package to the JBC – Oct. 10, 2010
http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=OSPB%2FG
OVRLayout&cid=1251581847868&pagename=GOVRWrapper
 Governor’s FY2011-12 Budget Request to the JBC – Nov. 1, 2010
http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=OSPB%2FG
OVRLayout&cid=1251582132192&pagename=GOVRWrapper
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