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Windsor Town Budget 2015

Making Responsible Savings & Cuts in the 2015-2016 Board of Education Budget

Savings & Cuts

• $20,000 saved in Life Insurance Premiums

• $225,000 saved in Energy Costs due to Gas Conversion and Solar

• Saving in Health Insurance • Fuel Savings • Staff cuts $480,000

Managing Involuntary Cost Increases

• Magnet School Tuition $100,000 • Special Education $298,733 • Transportation $304,199 • Certified Contracts $1,050,790 • Benefits $455,268

Always Looking for Other Funding Sources

• Alliance Grant • Smart Start Grant • Technology Grants • School Security Grant • NASA Grants

• $928,381.00 • $600,000.00 • $169,756.00 • $122,223.00

What are we doing with the money?

STEAM Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWQYaAHpFGg

Practical Career Education – Engineering, Printing, Culinary, Drafting, Medical, Military

Making Positive Change

• SAT Prep • Saturday Study Sessions • Expanding Advanced Placement

Classes • More Kindergarten Classrooms • Early Childhood Education

• Wolcott back on line • Laptops for every WHS Student • Continued Curriculum Overhaul • Securing Our building, Protecting

Students and Staff • Keeping Kindergarten

Paraprofessionals

What benefit do I get from the schools?

Entertainment Great Schools = Great Town• Attracting and keeping new families which

equals a vibrant and sustainable town favoring restaurants, entertainment, worship and community

• Increasing Real Estate Values • Molding good, well educated citizens to

pass on our town, its traditions, hopes and dreams

• Free and low cost sporting events: Football, Basketball, Baseball, Lacrosse, Field Hockey

• Jazz, String, Band & Gospel concerts • Art shows, Television Productions • Culinary Arts on the Green

Why Windsor Public Schools Matter?

Choosing to Come to Windsor

• "Most of our clients have told us they choose … because of the schools. They mention that it's not just for academics, although that certainly plays a big part of it. The sports and music programs are also appealing as well, as is the overall diversity of the student body and community as a whole."

Choosing to Stay in Windsor

• “I want my children to go to school in the town where we’ve chosen to live. I want them to have friends in the neighborhood, classmates in the scouts, and see their teachers in the grocery store. I want to walk to the parks where they play little league and sit in auditoriums where they do Shakespeare monologues. Good local public schools are essential to our notion of community.”

Investing in Technology

21st Century Tools for 21st Century Students Hands on High Tech at Windsor High

• Laptops for every student • NASA funded design and

manufacturing spaceship components • Electrathon cars design, building and

racing • Robotics • Printing Equipment and Certifications

Our Investments are Paying Off Academically

Windsor High students earned top honors at the Student Home Design Contest Connecticut Home & Remodeling Show

Recognition & Awards• Sage Park Students Place 1st in Math Competition • Windsor High Electrathon Team’s electric car took

2nd place and a trophy Lime Rock Park • WHS Students Lead in AP Participation and Pass

Rate • Cay Freeman, teacher at Sage Park Middle School,

named CAS Middle Level Exemplary Educator for 2014-2015

• Windsor High School honored with the SupportMusic Merit Award from The NAMM Foundation for its outstanding commitment to music education. Windsor High School is one of 120 schools from across the country in receiving this prestigious award in 2015

Sports Successes with the Highest Academic Standards for Athletes in Connecticut

We Are Windsor! Winning on the Field• State Basketball Champions • State Football Champions • State Track Champions • Northeast US Track Champions • National Relay Placers

Where Do the Funds Go?

People, Process, Structures, Supplies Spending Responsibly on the Basics

• Salaries • Maintenance • Buildings • Transportation • Books, supplies • Technology • Magnet School Tuition

Maintaining & Improving Facilities

New Gym Floor New Rock Climbing Wall

Progress Made!

Successes!• Sage Park Middle School of the Year • Windsor High Accreditation • Advanced Placement Participation and Pass Rate • Award Winning Music Program • ROTC • Electric Car Winners • Kindergarten Scores Up • Teacher Evaluations • Test Scores Up • Facilities Improved

Middle School of the Year!

“The mission of the Windsor Public Schools is to find the genius in every child and create life-long learners.”

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

We Are Windsor!

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