I think there's a certain amount of audacity for the admin, board, and Dr. Grossi to have all this talk about cost-cutting measures, deficit, etc. without ANY mention (unless I've missed it) of "nothing is off the table. we even looked into our options with respect to the Foster School project and found that, even aside from the fact tha…
I think there's a certain amount of audacity for the admin, board, and Dr. Grossi to have all this talk about cost-cutting measures, deficit, etc. without ANY mention (unless I've missed it) of "nothing is off the table. we even looked into our options with respect to the Foster School project and found that, even aside from the fact that we would be extremely hesitant to take that away from that community based on our equity goals, the remaining net cost would be ___, and thus the savings would be ____. Given that, just purely from a financial standpoint, it's not really an option."
You can't defer that conversation to December when Dr. Turner, Dr. Grossi, and Ms. Mitchell will be presenting their recommendations, because such an inquiry -- if done seriously -- would need to happen now/yesterday.
I think there's a certain amount of audacity for the admin, board, and Dr. Grossi to have all this talk about cost-cutting measures, deficit, etc. without ANY mention (unless I've missed it) of "nothing is off the table. we even looked into our options with respect to the Foster School project and found that, even aside from the fact that we would be extremely hesitant to take that away from that community based on our equity goals, the remaining net cost would be ___, and thus the savings would be ____. Given that, just purely from a financial standpoint, it's not really an option."
You can't defer that conversation to December when Dr. Turner, Dr. Grossi, and Ms. Mitchell will be presenting their recommendations, because such an inquiry -- if done seriously -- would need to happen now/yesterday.