Richardson’s Final Official Recommendations to the Huntsville City Schools Board
On the last night of both Dr. Moore’s and Dr. Richardson’s tenure, the school board continued to hear recommendations from Dr. Richardson that they ...
Month: June 2011
Meet Dr. Casey Wardynski: The $175,000 Man
Tonight, by a unanimous vote, the Huntsville City Schools Board of Education approved a three year, $175,000 contract (Wardynski Contract 1.pdf) for Dr. Casey W...
School Board and School Closing Meeting Tonight
Updated Below: Tonight, (June 16th) the Huntsville City Schools Board of Education will convene their bi-weekly meeting beginning at 5:30pm at Columbia High Sch...
Q&A: Huntsville City School Closing Meeting #3 Summary
Last night Dr. Richardson and Dr. Wilson, the assistant demographer, conducted the third of five meetings at Johnson High School to discuss the closing of up to...
Lost Faith: We Don’t Even Know How Much We Owe
You really can’t make this stuff up. So at the third of five of the School Closing meetings, Dr. Richardson was asked a question concerning how Huntsville...
Wardynski’s Non-Minimum Contract: $175,000 and Three to Five Years
In a system that is $20 million in debt, that has just laid off approximately 413 people, and that is considering closing 21% of its schools in a year, the Hunt...
The Great Huntsville City Schools Spending Spree
My friend Russell posted a great article detailing the costs associated with closure of a school. In the article, he establishes that there is a significant im...
Calculating the Cost of Closing Schools: Tax Revenue
I’m not a numbers guy. In fact, as dangerous as this is to mention in an engineering town, I hate math. Hate it. That’s why most of my postings avoi...