According to the Sun Sentinel, school based bookkeepers and budget keepers are being laid off this year and next.
Magic Runcie will replace the school based system with a centralized system.
Readers will remember that the incompetent Frank Till was responsible for decentralizing the system and causing the $5 million in overpayment fiasco ten years ago which yours truly had to straighten out.
Oh, and top heavy School Board administration is being seriously trimmed as well.
It’s about time.
Looks like my badgering last quarter paid off. Both Jaemi Levine and Ruth Lynch got their Q1 reports in on time.
Congratulations to both.
I won’t speculate on why Nick Steffens left Levine’s campaign to run against her, but he was one of her staunchest supporters last time around.
Expect at least one more entry into the District 4 School Board race.
Billy Davidson, frequent speaker a School Board meetings filed in Robin Bartleman’s race and promptly withdrew.
So what was the point?
Prediction: Ilene Lieberman will slaughter her opponents in the group 6 county judicial race.
She’ll outraise her opponents by at least a quarter of a million and probably a whole lot more.
That translates into a flood of campaign mailers and other forms of advertising.
County wide and district campaigns without money are doomed to failure.
As to the speculation on which name she chooses to use on the ballot, it doesn’t matter.
Several months ago, I asked that very question to the state division of elections
Nan Rich running for Governor?
Don’t expect to see much of her in Broward since she’ll be spending the next year traveling the state pressing the flesh and raising some serious money.
Watching Broward 
Apr 19, 2012 @ 20:00:15
I assume you also read that all high schools will be on a 7 period schedule, with all teachers teaching 6 out of 7 ( with no extra pay for the 6th period…most teachers teach 5 out of 7 now…and get paid extra for a 6th period…no more….). That means schools will need fewer teachers next year. At my high school, with a little over 100 teachers, we were told that we will have to surplus between 10 and 20 teachers now that all teachers will teach 6 out of 7. Morale is SO LOW right now, with the new teacher evaluation system being 60% Marzano and 40% FCAT test scores. This will make is worse, much worse. I know, I know, many will say “be thankful you have a job.”. Just sayin’…..
Apr 20, 2012 @ 22:59:43
@ Tracy – Get the facts. This will allow class size to be met, money to be saved and MORE TEACHERS TO BE HIRE! I hear the union left a step on the table that would have meant a raise for teachers and an extra bump for high school teachers making the change. Keep trusting them and see what you get!
Apr 21, 2012 @ 17:49:06
Runcie fixing the budget almost exclusively on the backs of high school teachers is more than just unfair. Teachers are losing $6-11,000. Morale is terrible and will get worse when this becomes a day-to-day reality. Many teachers at the bottom of the scale have not gotten a raise in years, their salaries have already been cut and they cannot afford this. Runcie’s business background should make him aware that you get what you pay for. I will work EXACTLY what I am paid for – just like every other worker in America. No time for tutoring, no evening phone calls, 7:15 – 2:45 no more, no less.
Apr 22, 2012 @ 19:57:26
Rochelle, the only teachers that will be hired are elementary specials teachers. I don’t begrudge them getting their jobs back, but trust me, high schools ARE GOING TO LOSE TEACHERS. My high school of a little more than 2,000 students will go from having 109 teachers to having around 95 teachers. My principal held a meeting after school on Thursday to share the “bad news”. Other high school principals did the same thing. There WILL be surplussing in all high schools.
This is after surplussing and layoffs for 2 years straight…no step raise in 3 years…I don’t trust the union, I never have. I have taught for 20 years and am still stuck on step 17. The top of the pay scale is at 22 years, which is $72,000 and I am stuck making around $50,000 for what seems like will be the rest of my career. Yet, those teachers that already reached the top of the pay scale keep getting that money year after year. Again, I don’t begrudge them getting it, they put their time in, but so have all of the teachers beneath them by a few years who may never get that.
Also, don’t even get me started on “merit pay”. Only 2-4% of the teachers in the state are supposed to be rated “highly effective” to get the highest raises in merit pay come 2014. That means that out of a high school of 100 teachers, only 2 to 4 would get the big raise each year?
Apr 22, 2012 @ 21:04:33
I have a Master’s Degree, my advanced incentive, am Dept. Head, and 20 years of teaching and I still make in the low to mid 50’s. I am supposed to get that big $10,000 step next year, but again, I am afraid now that I will never see it. I have worked for lower wages all of these years, looking forward to hitting 20+ years and making close to the top of the pay scale ( as have countless other teachers, I know). Now, we are just stuck where we are at.