Sunday, November 12, 2006
3 Catholic schools may be closed
Steve Schultze reports in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the current eight schools serving Racine's 11 parishes might be consolidated into a five school K-8 system. Students in the schools total about 1,500. (I wonder if Racine once had parishes with 1,000 students in a school, like those I remember in Milwaukee.)
So the planned increase is to $3,279 per student per year. By comparison, though also including high school students,
Tuition would be standardized at the schools at $2,200 per student. Families with two or more children in the schools would get discounts. In addition, the parishes would provide $1,079 per pupil, Sumner-Coon [Laura Sumner-Coon, spokeswoman for the reorganization task force] said.
The budget for the new system would be $4.6 million, some $700,000 more than current overall costs.
So the planned increase is to $3,279 per student per year. By comparison, though also including high school students,
In terms of operations spending per student -- the cost of running the school system on a daily basis -- Unified spent $10,048 in 2004-05, according to the Public Policy Forum's "8th Annual Comparative Analysis of the Racine Unified School District."¶ 11/12/2006 07:14:00 AM
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So let me get this straight: In order to preserve Catholic Schools, we need to reduce access and raise costs?
Who is advising the Archdiocese on these matters? WEAC?
Mike
Who is advising the Archdiocese on these matters? WEAC?
Mike
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: 3:48 PM
: 3:48 PM
We're hearing this same crap in Sheboygan. One has to wonder just what the heck Timothy is up to .
# posted by : 9:39 PM
: 9:39 PM
As usual, history matters.
About 5 years before his sudden retirement, Abp Weakland issued a directive to pastors requiring them to charge at least 50% of the cost-of-education as tuition.
He also increased the "tax" paid by parishes to the Archdiocese--because after Abp Weakland showed up, Chancery employment increased from 9 to around 250.
Now you know the rest of the story.
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About 5 years before his sudden retirement, Abp Weakland issued a directive to pastors requiring them to charge at least 50% of the cost-of-education as tuition.
He also increased the "tax" paid by parishes to the Archdiocese--because after Abp Weakland showed up, Chancery employment increased from 9 to around 250.
Now you know the rest of the story.
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