Wednesday, October 17, 2012
As the Hatboro-Horsham School District prepares its 2013-2014 spending plan, more program cuts, furloughs and staff reductions will be a reality, officials said.
School district taxpayers in Hatboro and Horsham will likely pay more in taxes come next year for fewer programming options and a reduced number of teachers. As districts throughout the state continue to see flat and declining state and federal revenues and increased operating costs, Hatboro-Horsham officials said during Monday’s school board meeting that ongoing district cuts are a grim reality. Hatboro-Horsham School District officials said school taxes will likely need to increase. By how much, remains to be seen. “Every year that we go through this process it’s a little bit more difficult, a little bit more time consuming,” Robert Reichert, the district’s director of business affairs of 15 years said in presenting a 2013-2014 budget …
Monday, August 6, 2012
In all, Hatboro-Horsham School District reduced its staff by just over 10 positions.
Citing declining enrollment, the Hatboro-Horsham School Board on Monday night voted to furlough two teachers for the upcoming school year. A full-time business and computer science position at Hatboro-Horsham High School, as well as a part-time Keith Valley Middle School physical education position were part of the staffing reductions, which, primarily through retirements and reallocations, resulted in the elimination of nine full-time positions and two part-time positions. Superintendent Curtis Griffin said the total 10.09 staffing curtailments would save the district $675,000 per year. Griffin said the business and computer science teacher at the high school would be relocated to another school within the district and the lowest-…
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Reducing graduation credits for high school students is also under review.
Hatboro-Horsham school district officials had looked to “increase the rigor” in terms of graduation credits for its seniors. Now, facing budget constraints, officials are wondering if less could really mean more. As the district considers furloughs, a reduction in staff through attrition and creative class scheduling to scale back the need for staff, reducing the number of graduation credits is something officials are also considering as an added cost-cutting measure. Prior to 2008, Hatboro-Horsham High School seniors needed 24 credits to graduate. In 2008, that number was upped to 25, raised to 27 the following year and has remained at 29 since 2010. District officials say those credits exceed the state minimum of 21 needed to graduate. …
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
School district positions may be eliminated to plug a budget shortfall.
Hatboro-Horsham School District staff in jeopardy of losing their jobs could know by June if theirs are one of the “minimum” 5.5 positions poised to be cut as officials continue wrangling with a budget shortfall. Of those positions, Superintendent Curtis Griffin said three are held by long-term substitute teachers. Others could be handled through attrition as staff retires. “We’re still working through that. We’re hoping we won’t have to impact people, but at the end of the day we might,” Griffin said. “I’m a little more cautious. I want to make sure we’re making good decisions.” In addition to reductions in staffing, Griffin said tightening the belt with the $86.5 million 2012-2013 could also mean program changes and reductions, as …
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
One full-time position and five part-time positions were furloughed.
From a strictly numbers standpoint, Hatboro-Horsham School District is employing 16 fewer teachers this school year as compared to the 2010-2011 school year. The reductions from 420 to 404 teachers, which reflect more than $1 million in annual savings, according to Superintendent Curtis Griffin, do not take into account the dozen or so who accepted a retirement incentive as part of the teacher contract, which was ratified in April. Some of those positions were not filled. It also does not factor in individuals whose positions were realigned. “Those numbers will continue to go down,” Griffin said. “We actually have been going down in staffing.” In all, the school board, during Tuesday’s meeting, voted to approve demotions and furloughs – or…
Monday, August 15, 2011
Hatboro-Horsham School District will receive $817,433 more in state funding.
After initially facing a $2 million budget shortfall, the Hatboro-Horsham School District will end up with an extra $453,000 in its coffers, officials said Monday. In all, the district will receive $817,433 more in state funding than previously expected. Notification of the funds came after the board’s final budget adoption in June, Robert Reichert district business manager said during Monday’s school board meeting. A little more than half the funding - $453,304 – the governor’s proposed cut to social security subsidies, will be unallocated, Reichert said and will be recorded as a fund balance at year’s end. Since the board used about $3 million of its current fund balance to finalize the 2011-2012 budget, Reichert said that money will …
jenortip
9:35 am on Thursday, October 18, 2012
It is simple math. The budget can be balanced if the board can address this.... "The bulk of the district’s costs are fixed, officials said. Of the current $86 million budget, Reichert said 76 percent accounts for staffing and benefit costs – both of which will undergo changes in the upcoming spending plan". more ›