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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1976
Page
5
Nine candidates for three Scottsdale School Board seats respond to five questions on district issues. They address budgets class sizes middle school concepts discipline vocational education and child centered accountability with varying emphasis and critique of current spending and programs.
A district board outlines budget aims for about 45 million dollars with focus on reducing costs per student, expanding departmentalized instruction, basic education emphasis, and careful middle school consideration. It urges community input, improved communication, and clear district goals to guide curriculum, staffing, and policy decisions.
James E. Thompson argues Scottsdale School District lacks long range educational goals hindering budget priorities. He advocates immediate goal setting with zero base budgeting, supports middle school trials at no extra cost, opposes the basic school premise, urges focus on core skills, and warns of financial strain from enrollment declines reducing staff and diversity of instruction.
Joe C Jamison states no recommendations now but would seek a detailed briefing if elected to the Board of Trustees to study the budget. He backs the middle school concept for seventh and eighth graders yet criticizes its implementation as ill conceived. He favors stronger basic education for all and rejects creating a basic school as elitist. He sees need to decentralize decision making from board and district levels.
A speaker outlines priorities for district budgeting, calls for a hard review of district finances, enrollment decline, and capital budgets. The speaker favors trial middle and basic school programs, seeks details on curriculum emphasis and budget impact, and stresses parental involvement before changes.
The item lists five questions about school budgeting priorities and programs. It asks whether to agree with current priorities, propose major changes, support a trial middle school program, support a trial basic school program, consider major curriculum changes with specifics, and identify any other major school concerns.
The speaker calls for more local control in each school with principals gaining greater authority and responsibility. They urge addressing collective bargaining and binding arbitration with state legislative input and board involvement. Declining enrollment tops priorities, pledging full disclosure of facts and alternatives to secure informed electorate support.
Voters or residents cite lack of data for major budget changes and note no studies show one approach improves learning over K-8. Concerns include declining southern enrollment and rising northern enrollment, plus desire for basic education in all schools and broader community involvement.
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