{"id":5161,"date":"2011-01-21T08:09:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T13:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=5161"},"modified":"2013-02-11T20:41:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T01:41:21","slug":"your-ideas-on-cutting-the-school-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/featured\/2011\/01\/21\/your-ideas-on-cutting-the-school-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Your ideas on cutting the school budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wake County Board of Education is collecting suggestions about budget improvements on its website. We\u2019ve gone through the 800-some suggestions and put together a list below of the ones that stood out. Some are good, some not so good. Make your own suggestion to the WCPSS here and read the full list below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not      let school buses idle while parked. (Given that the buses are diesels      we\u2019re not sure this would work.)<\/li>\n<li>Repaint      the roofs white to cut down on cooling costs.<\/li>\n<li>Get      rid of central warehouse and have supplies shipped directly to schools.<\/li>\n<li>Discontinue      paying for taxi and cab services for students who have been suspended from      riding the bus.<\/li>\n<li>Go to      waterless urinals.<\/li>\n<li>Consider      using open source software.<\/li>\n<li>Examine      the background check program. WCPSS should be able to get free NC      background checks.<\/li>\n<li>Let      students take over certain cafeteria and janitorial duties for course      credit.<\/li>\n<li>Partner      with universities for non-paid internship programs.<\/li>\n<li>Sponsor      a system wide Energy Conservation Week. (Why not make it a whole year?)<\/li>\n<li>Pay      cuts to \u201cupper level\u201d management.<\/li>\n<li>Work      with professional sports players to donate their salaries for one season      to support public school. (It\u2019s a Hail Mary, but what the heck.)<\/li>\n<li>Each      child bring $1 to school on the first day of every month.<\/li>\n<li>Increase      requirement for Free and Reduced lunch program.<\/li>\n<li>Elimination      or reduction in all pre-K programs funded by the district.<\/li>\n<li>Cancel      the show with Greg Thomas. (We\u2019re not exactly sure what this is.)<\/li>\n<li>Alternate      weeks of music and art and hire two part-time teachers in place of two      full-time teachers.<\/li>\n<li>Stop      spending so much funding on data collection.<\/li>\n<li>Pack      bag lunches for free and reduced student lunches. Do away with the hot      food<\/li>\n<li>line.<\/li>\n<li>Charge      a fee to take elective courses.<\/li>\n<li>Charge      students to rent out sports uniforms.<\/li>\n<li>Use      parent volunteers to replace some positions in school\u2014 make it mandatory.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage      a local business to adopt a school and make tax free donations to that      school.<\/li>\n<li>Remove      all lockers from all high schools.<\/li>\n<li>Charge      families a fee per student, like tuition. (Wouldn\u2019t that be like, ummm,      private schools?)<\/li>\n<li>Pay      cuts to all WCPSS employees. (Especially the ones who get paid the least!)<\/li>\n<li>Sell      all computer equipment and get back to basics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"View school cuts ideas on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/47309135\/school-cuts-ideas\" style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;\">school cuts ideas<\/a> <object id=\"doc_873333856676734\" name=\"doc_873333856676734\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\" style=\"outline:none;\" ><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"document_id=47309135&#038;access_key=key-snvy6pkhk2eau2kj4ur&#038;page=1&#038;viewMode=list\"><embed id=\"doc_873333856676734\" name=\"doc_873333856676734\" src=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=47309135&#038;access_key=key-snvy6pkhk2eau2kj4ur&#038;page=1&#038;viewMode=list\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" wmode=\"opaque\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wake County Board of Education is collecting suggestions about budget improvements on its website. 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