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Windsor Town Budget 2015
Making Responsible Savings & Cuts in the 2015-2016 Board of Education Budget
Savings & Cuts
• $20,000 saved in Life Insurance Premiums
• $225,000 saved in Energy Costs due to Gas Conversion and Solar
• Saving in Health Insurance • Fuel Savings • Staff cuts $480,000
Managing Involuntary Cost Increases
• Magnet School Tuition $100,000 • Special Education $298,733 • Transportation $304,199 • Certified Contracts $1,050,790 • Benefits $455,268
Always Looking for Other Funding Sources
• Alliance Grant • Smart Start Grant • Technology Grants • School Security Grant • NASA Grants
• $928,381.00 • $600,000.00 • $169,756.00 • $122,223.00
What are we doing with the money?
STEAM Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWQYaAHpFGg
Practical Career Education – Engineering, Printing, Culinary, Drafting, Medical, Military
Making Positive Change
• SAT Prep • Saturday Study Sessions • Expanding Advanced Placement
Classes • More Kindergarten Classrooms • Early Childhood Education
• Wolcott back on line • Laptops for every WHS Student • Continued Curriculum Overhaul • Securing Our building, Protecting
Students and Staff • Keeping Kindergarten
Paraprofessionals
What benefit do I get from the schools?
Entertainment Great Schools = Great Town• Attracting and keeping new families which
equals a vibrant and sustainable town favoring restaurants, entertainment, worship and community
• Increasing Real Estate Values • Molding good, well educated citizens to
pass on our town, its traditions, hopes and dreams
• Free and low cost sporting events: Football, Basketball, Baseball, Lacrosse, Field Hockey
• Jazz, String, Band & Gospel concerts • Art shows, Television Productions • Culinary Arts on the Green
Why Windsor Public Schools Matter?
Choosing to Come to Windsor
• "Most of our clients have told us they choose … because of the schools. They mention that it's not just for academics, although that certainly plays a big part of it. The sports and music programs are also appealing as well, as is the overall diversity of the student body and community as a whole."
Choosing to Stay in Windsor
• “I want my children to go to school in the town where we’ve chosen to live. I want them to have friends in the neighborhood, classmates in the scouts, and see their teachers in the grocery store. I want to walk to the parks where they play little league and sit in auditoriums where they do Shakespeare monologues. Good local public schools are essential to our notion of community.”
Investing in Technology
21st Century Tools for 21st Century Students Hands on High Tech at Windsor High
• Laptops for every student • NASA funded design and
manufacturing spaceship components • Electrathon cars design, building and
racing • Robotics • Printing Equipment and Certifications
Our Investments are Paying Off Academically
Windsor High students earned top honors at the Student Home Design Contest Connecticut Home & Remodeling Show
Recognition & Awards• Sage Park Students Place 1st in Math Competition • Windsor High Electrathon Team’s electric car took
2nd place and a trophy Lime Rock Park • WHS Students Lead in AP Participation and Pass
Rate • Cay Freeman, teacher at Sage Park Middle School,
named CAS Middle Level Exemplary Educator for 2014-2015
• Windsor High School honored with the SupportMusic Merit Award from The NAMM Foundation for its outstanding commitment to music education. Windsor High School is one of 120 schools from across the country in receiving this prestigious award in 2015
Sports Successes with the Highest Academic Standards for Athletes in Connecticut
We Are Windsor! Winning on the Field• State Basketball Champions • State Football Champions • State Track Champions • Northeast US Track Champions • National Relay Placers
Where Do the Funds Go?
People, Process, Structures, Supplies Spending Responsibly on the Basics
• Salaries • Maintenance • Buildings • Transportation • Books, supplies • Technology • Magnet School Tuition
Maintaining & Improving Facilities
New Gym Floor New Rock Climbing Wall
Progress Made!
Successes!• Sage Park Middle School of the Year • Windsor High Accreditation • Advanced Placement Participation and Pass Rate • Award Winning Music Program • ROTC • Electric Car Winners • Kindergarten Scores Up • Teacher Evaluations • Test Scores Up • Facilities Improved
Middle School of the Year!
“The mission of the Windsor Public Schools is to find the genius in every child and create life-long learners.”
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
We Are Windsor!
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