Public Comment: Good evening, Directors. I am Stacey Chamaty from the community group Douglas County Parents, and our Steering Committee would like to comment on the end statements the board has crafted. DCP fully supports the direction the board is taking the district in the recently published end statements. We are particularly excited to see […]
Public Comment: Budget Cuts to Secondary Schools
Thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight. I am here to speak on behalf of Douglas County Parents, a grassroots organization representing several thousand parents and community members. On February 12, almost 200 concerned citizens came together with DCSD’s upper admin team to search for solutions in the hope of avoiding drastic budget cuts […]
Julie Keim Comment to BoE: Site Based Budgets
Read by Julie Keim to DCSD Board of Education February 4, 2014 (See Attachment: SBB-Discussions) During the last few years, I have seen our students’ access to a meaningful education deteriorate rapidly. Like most community members, I believed the slashes to our schools budgets were necessary due to the economic decline of our nation. I […]