Are other school districts in San Diego County seeing the same trend as San Diego Unified --a growing share of the budget being devoted to employees?
I requested budget documents from the six largest school districts in San Diego County to find out. My fabulous coworker Keegan Kyle built this colorful graphic to show you the numbers we crunched and help you compare what's happening in different school districts.
Let me walk you through it. The bottom part of this graphic compares the percentage of the day-to-day budget that school districts spent on employee salaries and benefits last year,
The coalition of businessmen, philanthropists and others calling for changes to San Diego Unified brought their message to a Tierrasanta community meeting last night. The problem was, the Tierrasantans didn't seem to understand just what their message was.
"What is your mission statement? ... We have no idea where you're coming from," said Tracy Conroy, a member of the Tierrasanta Community Council.
Scott Himelstein, the leader of the newly named San Diegans 4 Great Schools, explained that his group was disappointed with test scores in the local schools and believed