Muncie Community Schools Update for

Muncie Rotary

Delivered to the Muncie Noon RotaryAugust 9, 2016

“Schools are the bedrock of our Democracy”

Dale Basham at MCS United Way Breakfast, 10/2/2015

Major Goals for 2017• Implement our community-based Strategic Plan

Move towards a more personalized and digitally-rich instructional program

Improve the variety and rigor of our curriculum Create and strengthen the partnerships necessary to ensure our

students are ready to learn each day and families are able to be supportive of learning

Address our fiscal and facilities issues Better engage the public Begin to develop a coherent corporation-wide professional development

program • Improve student achievement• Ensure all students and staff are safe and secure

Improve student achievementEncourage more instructional leadership at the department level

Investigate additional areas for partnership with Ivy Tech and BSU

Encourage computer science opportunities at all levels

Continue to work to reduce absenteeism and discipline issues

Investigate ways to reduce failures and retention

Encourage extra-curricular participation

Ensure all students and staff are safe and secure

Try to identify grant funding to provide more full time law enforcement officers on site

Continue to review plans and practice for potential emergencies

Expand PBIS (Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports); ties in nicely with JDAI

2016-2017 The Year of Partnerships?

• Building relationships with Meridian and Centerstone Mental Health providers to provide more in school support for children and their families

• Muncie Public Library, to provide one unified community-wide library catalog

• Looking for grant funding to partner more effectively with the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office

• Beginning to develop a partnership with MPL and BSU to reconstitute the MCHS broadcasting program

• Providing office space for TeenWorks’ academic support person at MCHS• Providing space for a weekly Whitely Community Food Pantry at the

MACC beginning in September

Some Nuts & Bolts Goals for 2017•Upgrade our infrastructure • Review our administrative procedures•Develop an accurate line item budget for all funds • Select new financial and HR management software • Clean up our student data and improve our reporting and student records management

Preschool Programming• Trying to build a partnership local pre-school to

double pre-school seats

• Working with Sue Errington, BY5, BSU and others to get Pre-K legislation

• Proposing new programs at Storer and Grissom by January 1, 2017

• Hoping to have pre-school in all elementary buildings before 2020

Universal Breakfast• In partnership with Chartwells, our food service provider

ALL children may eat breakfast for free at Grissom, Longfellow, Sutton and Southside Middle School

• Plan to expand the pilot to other schools after Labor Day

• Ultimately, all children in grades K-8 will have access to a free breakfast every day Day 1 Day 2 Day 30

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Minority Employment

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Delaware Co. Ave.

6.5

6.7

6.9

7.1

7.3

7.5

7.7

7.9

7.1 7.2

6.9 6.9

7.67.5

7.7 7.8

Dual Credit

2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 20170

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

153194 214

278

438

631

# of Students

# of Students

Student Discipline Issues

2014 2015 20160

200

400

600

800

1000

1200

1400

1162 1169

9699371010

517

133201

11893 59 62

Discipline Issues CPS ContactsProbation Referrals Arrests

Overall MCS discipline incidents were down over 20% last year

First decrease in several years

Probation referrals were down 42% for the same period

MCS Kindergarten and First Grade Retention Data

2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017

0102030405060708090

100

41 41 6027

43 44 35

19

Kindergarten First Grade

Finances: Calendar Year; General Fund Revenue v. Expenses

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015$40,000,000.00

$42,000,000.00

$44,000,000.00

$46,000,000.00

$48,000,000.00

$50,000,000.00

$52,000,000.00

$54,000,000.00

$56,000,000.00

$58,000,000.00

$60,000,000.00Operating Revenue

MCS will need to reduce costs by at least $11.5 million

$5.7 million completed

Many collectively bargained items left to address

Looking for additional revenue streams

Indiana Department of Education and State Board of Accounts have requested that MCS develop and

implement a deficit reduction plan in April 2016

Health Insurance Benefit Costs as % of State Funding

Blackford County

Cowan Daleville Delware Community

Kokomo Marion MCS Richmond Wes-Del Yorktown0

5

10

15

20

25

9.7

12.9

8.8

13.7 13.6 12.7

20.6

12.9

7.7

10.8

2015

Failure Rates at the Secondary Level

Semester 1, 2014 Semester 2, 2015 Semester 1, 2015 Semester 2, 20160

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

19.5

13.4 14.3 14.4

24 24

13 1414.8

31.5

11 10.9

NMS SMS MCHS

2015 Tax Cap LossesCircuit Breaker As % of Total Levy

Muncie Yorktown Wes-Del Delaware Daleville Liberty-Perry Cowan0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

4543.66

13.59

4.282.45 1.43 0.85 0.1

Areas of Concern from 2016 State of the School Address

• Kindergarten Readiness• Failure rates at the secondary level are too high• Graduation rate isn’t 100%• Graduates need to have a career path and a plan to get there• Need for more support services; particularly mental health support for our

children and families• Long term facilities planning & renovation needs; rebuild our technology

infrastructure • Need for a strong digitally-based curriculum• Need to hire and retain the best possible educators and support staff who are

reflective of our community• Need to live within our budget

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