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3. The record is clear. Even SACS cited my findings. p. 6 from the AdvancED / SACS reporting that put district on probation “An artifact distributed by a board member showed that the district would incur a five-year total disbursement of approximately $54 million over budget in just three areas of operation.” “The fact that the system had under-budgeted millions for utilities and legal work during the past several years was not properly explained.”

5. Salary CategoryFY2008FY2009FY2010FY2011FY2012 FY2013 (budget) % change from FY08 to FY13 Instructional salaries415,285,549416,612,724392,967,691374,785,950373,853,144328,233,39520.96% Pupil services salaries32,067,78132,308,57432,976,40231,650,86430,798,69926,084,18318.66% Instructional services salaries13,228,13412,610,85812,626,33211,217,54510,799,8788,176,06938.19% General Admin salaries6,083,5717,568,0357,654,0116,641,1606,759,7286,961,900-14.44% The only salary component that has increased over 6 years School Admin salaries51,144,18950,835,52750,384,01849,201,49046,147,59142,212,90717.46% Transportation salaries32,955,78532,977,36530,908,33729,826,39930,614,61325,717,95321.96% Maint. & Op. salaries44,066,05644,121,90342,321,09839,814,96937,524,03631,773,74727.90% Supporting Services salaries16,855,59816,876,03115,018,78813,188,56112,669,69111,826,67929.84% Total Salaries611,686,663613,911,017584,856,677556,326,938549,167,380480,986,83321.37% Despite claims of cutting central office staff, over 6 years spending on General Administration salaries rose almost 14.5 % while teaching salaries declined by over 20%.

7. You only get these problems in a state that let it happened. Before I alerted the public to the deceptive budgeting techniques, no agency, official or department was doing anything about this mess.

8. Georgia spends in the TOP TEN in the nation on education in aggregate. K-12 education is the largest single expenditure of our state budget.

9. Georgia received the Grade of “F”.

10. Every state that borders Georgia has a HIGHER rate of graduation.

11. Every state that borders Georgia spends less per pupil.

12. In a report released in February 2013, Ben Scafidi, Ph.D., documented* that between 1992 – 2009, Georgia has had an increase in student enrollment of 41% but at the same time, administrative and other non-teacher salaries have grown 74%. *“The School Staffing Surge Decades of Employment Growth in America’s Public Schools”

13. If we had kept the growth of administrative and non- teaching salaries to the same rate as that of student enrollment, we could increase the salaries of every teacher in Georgia by over $7,700.

14. More classroom, less bureaucracy Consequences Disclosure and transparency

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