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Broward School Board wrestles with budget that includes some layoffs, some program cuts
By Akilah Johnson, Sun Sentinel
July 30, 2010

Four minutes before midnight on Friday, the Broward School Board gave tentative approval to the district’s $3.4 billion budget, which had been reached through layoffs and cuts — but no eliminations — to art, music, physical education and library programs as well as some technology upgrades.

The board emphasized “tentative” when approving $33.4 million that the district wants to use to rehire 465 laid off teachers by raising property taxes by $20 per $100,000 of taxable value.

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Broward School Board weighs possible layoffs, furloughs, fewer electives
District facing up to $100 million cut in state money, officials say

By Kathy Bushouse, Sun Sentinel
February 9, 2010

Broward’s public schools face deep budget cuts in the upcoming school year, which could mean anything from more job losses to less money for elective classes and classroom supplies.

“Schools budget director Jane Turner told board members on Tuesday that the district is facing an $80 million to $100 million cut in state money and will have to make up for $60 million in one-time money spent in last year’s budget”

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Some Broward schools go without toilet paper and soap in bathrooms
Teachers stock bathrooms at some schools
By Akilah Johnson, Sun Sentinel
February 9, 2010

From classroom walls to bathroom stalls, posters in Broward County schools urge good hygiene to stop the spread of germs. But when students and teachers try to practice what the posters preach, they sometimes find there’s no toilet paper or soap.

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Broward schools’ budget gap could force more layoffs

Broward School Board members are beginning to tackle proposed budget cuts for the next school year, with the possibility of layoffs.
BY PATRICIA MAZZEI – pmazzei@MiamiHerald.com

Planning for the next budget year is in its early stages at the Broward school district, but the financial picture already looks bleak.

Broward will have to cut $47 million from its construction, maintenance and technology budget — or lay off about 475 people from those departments, district budget directors said last week.

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By Kathy Bushouse, Sun Sentinel

FORT LAUDERDALE – Lobbyists doing business with Broward County schools will face sanctions ranging from a warning to a two-year suspension if they do not follow rules unanimously approved Tuesday.

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Board says mandates force possible shifts
By Kathy Bushouse | South Florida Sun-Sentinel
February 24, 2009

With two votes in the next month, the Broward County School Board could change where hundreds of students attend classes next school year.

Seven elementary and middle schools in the county could have their attendance zones redrawn. The first of two public hearings and votes is scheduled for Wednesday at Plantation High School.

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The boundary maps

Broward School Board mulls layoffs
State budget cuts could affect art and music classes
Kathy Bushouse | South Florida Sun-Sentinel

With a possible $140 million in state budget cuts looming, the Broward County School Board is weighing a number of options — from eliminating jobs to shifting school schedules to reducing arts and music programs in schools.

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My wife attended this meeting and from the sounds of things, it was a bees nest of issues and upset concerned  parents.

Below is an article form Sun-Sentinel this morning summarizing the meeting:

School Board OKs reshuffling thousands of SW Broward students
By Akilah Johnson |  Sun-Sentinel.com
5:45 AM EDT, March 14, 2008

After nearly nine hours of heated and contentious debate about how to reshuffle thousands of students in Southwest Broward, the School Board tentatively approved a plan early Friday:

Send all of Southwest Ranches and pockets of Davie and Pembroke Pines to West Broward High School in Pembroke Pines; a chunk of Weston to Western High in Davie; and a hunk of Miramar High students to Everglades High in Miramar.

The Whole Article:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/

Also from Sun-Sentinel there are two videos and the map with changes available:
The Board Meeting
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/video/?slug=sfl-0313boundaries.video

Cypress Bay
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/video/?slug=sfl-0312cyprus.video

School Boundary Map
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-westonhsboundaries,0,699630.flash

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This is an important document which all the changes may be based on:

Enrollment and Facilities Planning Inventory (EFPI)
School Facility Data Provided by Facilities and Construction Management
Policy 5000 Standards for Overcrowded Schools
Revised: Thursday, February 07, 2008

This was supposed to be the list of attendees:

Boundaries Discussion
School Board Workshop V
February 13, 2008

Robin Bartleman, Chair
Maureen S. Dinnen, Vice-Chair
Beverly A. Gallagher
Jennifer Leonard Gottlieb
Phyllis C. Hope
Stephanie Arma Kraft, Esq.
Robert D. Parks, Ed.D.
Eleanor Sobel
Benjamin J. Williams
James F. Notter
Superintendent of Schools
Katherine Blasik, Ph.D., Associate Superintendent
Research, Evaluation, Assessment, & Boundaries
Jill Young, Director, School Boundaries
Thomas Getz, Director, Capital Planning and Programming
Patrick Sipple, Noelle Mecoli, Joseph Beck, Demographer Specialists, School Boundaries
Area Superintendents: Dr. Verda Farrow, Dr. Joel Herbst, Dr. Joanne Harrison, Dr. Leontine Butler