2021 The Five Star Focus

THANKS TO THE SUPPORT OF THE FIVE STAR COMMUNITY, Ballot Issue 5C was passed on Nov. 6, 2018.
The Ballot Issue represents a funding measure to jump-start priorities identified through our strategic plan ELEVATE.
We continue to make strides in fulfilling our plan to elevate student success in every classroom, every day.
INVESTMENT ITEM EST. COST* FOCUS AREA UPDATE
Reduce class sizes and increase high school course options
Elementary: Add 16.5 teachers districtwide to address class sizes above targeted levels
Middle: Add 2 teachers per building
$4,594,671
High: Add 3 teachers per building
Update learning materials, resources and textbooks $1,528,500
Expand Career and Technical Education (CTE) programming $2,241,800
Add academic interventionists at elementary and K-8 schools $1,472,455
Additional teachers to reduce class size were hired and
assigned to schools in the fall of 2019.
These funds were used to replace outdated textbooks
and learning materials to align with current content
standards and 21st century learning.
These funds include support for a director, a coordinator,
curriculum and other materials for CTE expansion.
Expansion allows an additional 350 students to
participate in CTE offerings.
There is a .5 Academic Interventionist allocated to each
of our elementary and K-8 schools, which provides
support to nearly 800 elementary students.
Increase early career educator salary and compensation across all
experience levels to remain competitive in the market
Increase experience credit to 10 years to better recruit
veteran teachers
$3,259,781
$509,500
Starting salary was increased, putting us third in our
metro-area comparison group and 2.1% above the
average starting salary.
In the past two years, since resuming the acceptance of 10
years service credit, we hired 193 certified employees with
7 or more years of experience. This is a 31% increase over
the prior two years when we only accepted 6 years.
Develop and implement a new program for teacher leadership $1,528,500
Implement 1% Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) for all staff $3,433,292
The IBS Negotiations Team continues to work on the
development of this job description.
Complete. Effective January 2019.
Implement salary adjustments for identified administrative and
classified (support staff) roles to remain competitive in the market
$152,850
Complete. Effective January 2019.
Add counselors and social workers to schools at all levels $3,512,493
Develop and implement social-emotional learning curriculum $407,600
Expand preschool to new locations $713,300
Add a member to the district crisis response team $101,900
Install facility access cards at high schools $305,700
We added 54 full-time employees to our campuses to
support social/emotional wellbeing, a combination of
Social Emotional Learning Specialists, School Counselors,
and SSS Mental Health Providers.
In January of 2020 the School Board approved seven
social/emotional learning programs for our K-8 schools.
These include,Second Step, PATHS, Random Acts of
Kindness, Top Twenty, School Connect, Zones of
Regulation and Owning Up (Cultures of Dignity).
The expansion at these identified sites has resulted
in an increase of 21 staff members and an additional
390 students served in our preschool program.
New staff member hired effective July 2019.
Electronic access control was added at high school
exterior doors to support secured campuses starting in
the 2019-20 school year.
Add additional campus supervisors at high school
(2 per comprehensive high school)
$407,600
Funding for new campus supervisors added to high
school budgets for 2019-20.
Reduce district-level student fees $1,120,900
Update technology devices and systems $152,850
Allocate resources to district charter schools based on enrollment $2,812,159
Complete.
Families are no longer charged district-level fees.
Funding was used to update and replace student
Chromebooks across the district.
Charters began to see their funding in June 2019.
TOTAL: $28,255,851
Revised May 2021
*Original estimated cost
was $27,000,000 but the
mill allows for inflation
21 ST CENTURY
LEARNERS
DIVERSE
LEARNING
OUTSIDE-
THE-CLASSROOM
LEARNING
SAFE
SCHOOLS
SOCIAL-
EMOTIONAL
LEARNING
WORLD-CLASS
STAFF
25 ADAMS 12 FIVE STAR SCHOOLS