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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:02 PM
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By Sarah Nagem
snagem@salisburypost.com
The Rowan-Salisbury School System must return more than $800,000 to the state because of budget cuts.
State officials decided earlier this week to make school systems and charter schools return money based on enrollment figures.
Rowan-Salisbury schools must give back $817,637.
School leaders are figuring out where to make cuts in the budget, Rowan-Salisbury schools Superintendent Dr. Judy Grissom said.
The system has a Dec. 19 deadline to the state about what will be cut, she said.
"I don't foresee any layoffs," Grissom said. "We will do everything we can for the classroom to not be affected." The board of education will likely talk about the budget reversions at its meeting Monday, Grissom said.
She said she does not expect a board vote about the matter until next month.
Other schools must return the following amounts:
Kannapolis City Schools: $201,593
Cabarrus County Schools: $1,120,929
Mooresville City Schools: $221,415
Iredell-Statesville Schools: $859,400
Gray Stone Day School: $10,951
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lee
Loan : Saturday, November 22, 2008 12:45 PM
how do you borrow that much money?
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Larry
: Friday, November 21, 2008 4:03 PM
There are enough instant experts in this thread to fill a looney bin. The State has taken your tax dollars that was suppose to be spent on our children in this area and taken it away! This is not the district's fault, this is Raleigh's fault.
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Trouble Maker
Time to trim off the fat : Friday, November 21, 2008 1:52 PM
maybe it is tome for some of the non teacher can return to the class room, or be replaced with teachers. I think we have over 150 non teachers in the Rowan School system. How can that be justified?
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Question
: Friday, November 21, 2008 6:47 AM
I have a question that I hope someone can answer for me here. Is this something that normally happens each year where the state gives the school system money for students who are not actually enrolled? In other words, if the system projected having 10,000 kids, but after school started, only 9,500 were enrolled, do they usually keep that extra money each year? If so, what has been done with all of the extra money that was allotted to them that they technically were not suppposed to keep? That is taxpayer money that should have been returned to the state. I know Rowan-Salisbury is not the only county having to refund money. There are quite a few and we are talking millions. So again, is this something that has normally taken place and the taxpayers were not informed?
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Oliver James
A Good Solution : Thursday, November 20, 2008 10:42 PM
Some of the central office staff ought to go back to the classroom. Stop waisting tax payers money by funding nonsense positions. Some central office duties can be combined and some positions can be eliminated, but I forgot it's all about friendship. Are all children really first in Rowan County?
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Taxpaying resident
Reserve funds were made for this event : Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:36 PM
This kind of tragedy is exactly why the state recommended a reserve fund balance. We'll be in good shape, unless greedy administrators try to screw it out of us taxpayers at the local level now.
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1mom
Smarter than a 5th Grader : Thursday, November 20, 2008 6:00 AM
I hate this for the children because if RSS chooses not to pull from the reserve, which I don't see how they can function without doing it, our children will suffer so that the uppers can still be cushy with their salaries and continue to plan for their posh offices. Gee, maybe our state folks can enlighten our wonderful powers that be in Washington. Returning funds is a great idea for the greedy execs with AIG who begged for a bailout, got it, went on a $400,000 spa trip to some exotic location, now begging for more and taking another trip. It's called demand the money back!
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School Marm
Use some of the abundant reserve fund balance : Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:42 PM
RSS could use some of their copious reserve funds to make up the difference. After all, that's what they've said it is for: a rainy day. Now is when we'll get to see whether they were telling the truth, or whether that fund is sitting there awaiting a change in county leadership to fund the Taj Mahal headquarters they've been begging for since 2005.
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