Eliminate high school transportation, $466,000.Eliminate block scheduling (3 FTE), $300,000.Move Skyline to a semester schedule, saving an estimated 3 FTE, $300,000.Reduce noon-hour supervisor costs by increasing student-to-supervisor ratios, $200,000.Eliminate the seventh-hour option at Huron and Pioneer (5 FTE), $500,000.Eliminate instrumental music for fifth graders (5 FTE), $500,000.Decrease media center support staff by 12 FTE, $1.2 million.Share principals at the elementary schools (which would save an estimated 10 FTE), $1 million.Reduce the number of counselors by 3 FTE, $300,000.Eliminate all of the district’s reading intervention teachers (10 FTE), $1 million.Reduce teaching staff by 32 FTE (full-time equivalents) for a savings of $3.2 million.“When we’re looking at trying to reduce the budget by $17 million after multiple years of reductions, we’re not going to be able to get around looking at staffing.”Īmong the items on the potential cuts list related to employees are: “Staffing is the largest part of out budget,” Allen said. The money saved in the HR department essentially would mean not hiring an assistant director of human resource services, Allen said, adding the position is currently open. For his initial estimates, Allen targeted total instruction-related cuts of $10.36 million, operational expense reductions of $2.496 million and human resource reductions of $100,000. “ This is still a work in progress.”ĭeputy Superintendent of Operations Robert Allen delivered the preliminary budget report, stating there are not many new items on the list. “The board wanted us to cost out many of the working pieces, so we could have the dialogue with the public earlier this year,” said Superintendent Patricia Green. School officials followed through on the board’s request, stressing the items on the list are not recommendations at this point. The Board of Education asked administration in November for an initial peek at the first $10 million to $12 million in budget cuts that could be necessary next fall.Ĭurrently, AAPS projects a reduction of $17 million will be necessary to balance the budget. Previous story: Ann Arbor schools to employ 2-pronged approach to address $10-$16 million deficit for 2013-14Įditor's note: A quote from Patricia Green has been corrected in this article.Īnn Arbor Public Schools officials revealed their preliminary cost estimates of potential budget reductions for the 2013-14 academic year Wednesday night.Deputy Superintendent of Operations Robert Allen, right, delivered a preliminary report on the possible budget reductions that the administration may ask the school board and the public to support in the coming school year.

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