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February/March 2005

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As our district struggles to address a substantial projected budget deficit (see Message from the Superintendent below) it is easy to lose sight of the considerable public service all of our employees so tirelessly perform. Day after day, our teachers, support staffs and administrators apply their considerable talents and energies to provide a nurturing learning environment devoted to preparing our children for rewarding and productive lives in society. No public institution other than a school district can credibly make a similar claim.

The fact that TUSD and other school districts in Arizona successfully fulfill this mission is all the more remarkable given the serious financial and other constraints under which they function. This state's educational funding formula is unduly complicated and perplexing. But above all, it is a formula that is incredibly stingy and short-sighted. For all these reasons, when it comes to state spending per student, Arizona consistently ranks at the bottom.

Sadly, so long as public education in Arizona is under funded, it is inevitable that there will be students who will leave the K-12 system without an adequate education, despite our best efforts. In this difficult environment there will be no easy, quick fixes, but there are hopeful signs that some day soon things may begin to change. Recently, as part of a contingent of teachers, administrators, parents and business people, TUSD governing board members traveled to Phoenix to lobby the legislature and the governor's office for more education funding. Though it would certainly be misleading to report instant success, it was clear from that visit that public debate is beginning to focus on the right objectives. Board members heard considerable discussion of the recommendations recently put forth by the Rodel Charitable Foundation of Arizona, which urge the legislature to put more money into public schools, starting with all-day kindergarten. The Rodel Report also recommends school districts adopt strategies which assure that any additional funding dollars will be spent on proven strategies that increase student achievement. Hopefully, these are recommendations around which a new consensus in support for public education can be built.

Our challenge, of course, is that the district's budget cannot be adopted based on the hope of a better financial future. We cannot put the education of today's students on hold until better funding is obtained. We must continue to do our best for our students now, as permitted by present budget constraints. Rising employee benefit costs, including health insurance and retirement obligations, have outpaced minimal state funding for education. Developments such as home schooling, significant tax credits for private schools, and the growth of charter schools have adversely impacted the district's student enrollment and, consequently, student average daily membership. The accompanying graph, prepared by the TUSD's Department of Financial Services, provides a comparison of student average daily membership figures with those of the total number of district employees (full-time equivalents).

This graph shows that for the last six years, even though student enrollment has decreased, the numbers of certified and classified employees have remained relatively constant. This is a trend we can no longer ignore as the district's maintenance and operation budget is premised on student numbers. Every year that TUSD has fewer students, the State's funding formula automatically reduces the size of TUSD's budget.

For this reason, when it comes to resolving TUSD's budget deficit, "right-sizing" has become a key phrase. The Arizona Daily Star recently ran an editorial quoting Superintendent Roger Pfeuffer as saying, "We are beginning to understand we need to right-size our district to fit our budget." We must now come to terms with the district's declining student enrollment, as well as the ever increasing costs involved in staffing central and school sites. We need to "right-size," or reconcile, our students' essential educational needs and numbers with the considerable range of services now provided by our employees. It is the stated goal of Superintendent Pfeuffer and his staff to close the budget gap by recommending a package of budget reduction proposals that best protects and preserves the district's core mission: student achievement in the classroom. The ultimate goal - one this board supports - is to become a district with a budget that is better able to sustain its core mission.

Superintendent Pfeuffer continues working with his staff and employees to see where reductions can be made with minimum impact on the quality education provided to TUSD students. So far, these efforts have helped reduce the deficit from $17 million to about $11 million. In the coming months, TUSD Governing Board members will be seriously reviewing an additional package of recommendations to be made by Mr. Pfeuffer and his staff in order to further reduce the deficit and to build into the budget components that restore funding for needs within the district that have been shortchanged in the last several years. This will be an involved and stressful process but one that is necessary to sustain essential student services over the long term. If preserving the district's core mission is to be the focus, then closing the budget gap through incremental cuts "across the board" is not the right answer. To best serve our students, what is required is a strategic reduction of the district's workforce to achieve an employee structure that is "right" for the district's current situation.

As this process goes forward, I respectfully request on behalf of the board, not only your understanding, but also your input via the TUSD "Bright Ideas" website, emails, and letters. Suggestions are welcome and all of us at the district are hoping these efforts will help the district attain its "right size" as painlessly and efficiently as possible.

Bruce Burke

This is an updated revision of a letter I sent to all employees on February 1, 2005. I believe it best explains our current budget situation and what we are doing about it.

Dear Colleagues,

The dialogue on the budget continues. Perhaps it should be termed a multilogue because there have been many points of view expressed about the District's budget and how to "fix" it. I truly appreciate each and every one of you who took the time to participate in staff presentations and discussions and the many of you (approximately 1800) who took the extra time to e-mail me or the Bright Ideas Committee with your reactions, your suggestions or both.

Many of us are concerned not only with our personal financial situations, but also with the overall financial health and well-being of the organization. It seems to many, and I include myself among them, that we are at a crossroads of sorts, a place in time when a number of factors have come together that require us to think beyond the continuation of what has been, and to create a new, truly solid foundation upon which to move forward.

I would describe those factors as:

1. An historical pattern by the state of Arizona and the federal government of both under-funding and creating unfunded mandates. In this category I would include:
   1. PL94-142 -- Special Education which has never reached its promise of "full"-funding.
   2. No Child Left Behind -- Compliance with this law and its labyrinth of categories has costs not covered by federal or state dollars.
   3. AZLEARNS -- the mandate of high stakes testing with its ancillary requirements of teacher quality and student achievement requires District expenditures not included in the state formula funding.
2. A long-time commitment by TUSD to do its best for both the students and the employees of the District. Examples of these commitments include:
   1. Full-day kindergarten for nearly a decade without commitment from the state for funding, nor relying on the Tucson taxpayer for an override to support its implementation.
   2. Additional staffing of specialized positions such as elementary counselors, additional librarians, school nurses, school monitors, network technicians and teacher aides who help address the needs of the students not only academically, but who also offer support in addressing the WHOLE child.
   3. A competitive salary plan with significant benefits associated with benefit eligible employees.
   4. Consistently lowering class size averages. While this still includes a range of class sizes where the highest ratios are not desirable, the fact remains that while our student enrollment has been steadily declining over the last several years, the number of contract classroom teachers has been rising.
3. A slowly declining overall average daily membership in TUSD that equates to a revenue loss.
   1. School choice issues have created a competitive marketplace for students.
   2. Home schooling, significant tax credits for private schools and charter schools have all impacted how and where parents choose to have their children educated.
4. Employee benefits costs in almost all categories are rising, and with approximately 90% of our district budget spent on employee salaries and benefits this budget area is continually impacted.
   1. Health insurance costs have risen dramatically -- 52.3% in the last 4 years.
   2. Arizona state retirement is rising next year by 2.55% both for the employee AND the employer.

These, I believe, are the major factors that have combined to create a chronic, increasingly serious problem with our District budget. I have also identified the District's inability to get immediate and consistent information from its financial and payroll systems, a problem caused by an attempt to implement the software system with too little support and resources.

How serious are these problems? It has caused distrust in how the District spends its budget capacity. It has caused budget cuts to services needed to maintain our infrastructure. Cuts in services have helped create an interest in charters and private schools by our parents even though we know we offer better qualified teachers, better course offerings, transportation and extra-curricular activities not available in most alternative settings. It has created an interest in the current state legislature to allow the state to take over school districts unable to meet their financial obligations even though the state is, in part, responsible through inadequate funding. Yes, the budget problems are serious and must be addressed.

What can we do about it? It is becoming clear to an increasing number of employees, parents and community leaders that we need to do something different, that we cannot continue to do what we have always done, relying on annual adjustments or "band-aids" to pull us through yet another budget "crisis." I have received an enormous array of comments, criticisms, and comprehensive suggestions for what to do. The bottom line is that TUSD must "right-size" itself to fit the budget capacity it is allowed by the state.

The budget development process and right-sizing process for next year is underway. For the first time it has the regular participation of representatives from all the major stakeholder groups in TUSD from employees, to parents, to community leaders and taxpayers. From this process and with the Governing Board's support and ultimate approval, we will construct a new and different district budget that will be balanced, not only monetarily, but also in its impact and relative benefit to all stakeholder groups. The most important of these groups is the one made up of our 61,000 students.

It is something we must do. It is something we want to do. And with your help, it is something we will do.

Roger F. Pfeuffer

TUSD ADMINISTRATORS LEARN TO HANDLE EMERGENCIES from the Arizona Daily Star 3/23/05

TEACHER IS HONORED from the Arizona Daily Star 3/23/05

500 MARK OCHOA SCHOOL'S 80 YEARS OF EDUCATION from the Arizona Daily Star 3/19/05

AZ MOCK TRIAL WINNER IS UHS from the Tucson Citizen 3/17/05

SHE'S AIMING HIGH AND HAVING A BLAST from the Tucson Citizen 3/16/05

UNIVERSITY HIGH MOCK TRIAL TEAM TOPS IN STATE from the Arizona Daily Star 3/16/05

SOCCER-PLAYING ENVOY, 9, IS OFF TO D.C. from the Arizona Daily Star 3/15/05

HELP A KID GET AHEAD; BE A TUTOR from the Arizona Daily Star 3/10/05

NEW PLAYGROUND GEAR: ALL IN A DAY'S WORK AT ROSE ELEMENTARY from the Tucson Citizen 3/9/05

TUSD SAVINGS: VALID TO WACKY from the Arizona Daily Star 3/8/05

BRAINIAC KIDS PUT AIMS TEST IN DOUBT from the Arizona Daily Star 3/4/05

TUSD BOND SALE A HELP TO TAXPAYERS from the Arizona Daily Star 2/22/05

FOWLER GIVES CREDIT FOR HIS DEVELOPMENT TO HONEST TEACHER from the Arizona Daily Star 2/20/05

10 FROM TUSD PITCH IN AS VOLUNTEERS AT RINCON from the Tucson Citizen 2/12/05

TUSD COMPLIES ON DESEG, U.S. SAYS from the Arizona Daily Star 2/11/05

6 FROM UNIVERSITY HIGH IN RUNNING FOR U.S. HONOR from the Arizona Daily Star 2/10/05

COST-SAVING TUSD TIPS INCLUDE A 4-DAY WEEK SUGGESTIONS from the Arizona Daily Star 2/9/05

TUSD HIGH SCHOOLS CUT FAT FOR HEALTHIER KIDS from the Tucson Citizen 2/2/05

STAR-EYEWITNESS NEWS 4 STUDENT OF THE WEEK: Marlon Rascon from the Arizona Daily Star 2/1/05

Susan Kelly, GATE teacher at Booth-Fickett, was one of only five teachers selected from a nationwide pool of over 500 applicants to serve as National Teacher Advisor to Cable in the Classroom, the cable industry's education foundation. Kelly was chosen for her extensive knowledge of academic content, instruction, and novel uses of technology for learning. During her one-year term she will aid in developing new programs, tools, and resources for Cable in the Classroom and its member network. Her school recently received a $1,000 grant for her participation.

Wells Fargo awarded two GATE teachers grants in January. Garrett Young was awarded $475 to purchase materials students will use to create model rockets, extending Young's simple machines unit to complex machines. Susan Kelly was awarded a $500 grant to purchase supplies students will use to design, build, and program robots, thus allowing them to explore connections between programming, engineering, electronics, design, and mathematics.

Parade Magazine, a Sunday supplement to the Arizona Daily Star, ran astronomy questions created by students in Sandra Blitz's second-grade class in astronomer David Levy's article "Kids' Science Questions" on Jan. 30. Levy used the questions Blitz's students asked during his visit to Lyons in December. Go online to read the article and view the questions.

Winners of the 2005 Pay It Forward Fund matching grant program have been announced. They include: Tucson High's Amy Rusk-Foushee, Poetry Club, to publish a fine arts magazine for community distribution, $300; Cavett's Stacey Hackett, Ambassador Team, to promote student leadership, community service, positive modeling for all students, $200; and Sabino's Diane Roderick, Ceramics Club, for an"Empty Bowls" fundraiser for the Community Food Bank, $300.

Doolen's Melissa Hall was awarded a Teacher Continuing Education Scholarship by the University of Phoenix in January. The scholarship will allow Hall to take 5 free classes valued at $2,100. The scholarship is offered twice a year and typically has between 25 to 50 applicants per application process.

David Ross, principal at Vail, received the Outstanding Music Administrator Music Advocacy Award from the Arizona Music Educators Association at the AMEA "Hall of Fame" luncheon on Jan. 14 at the Mesa Convention Center. The award recognizes excellence in leadership concerning music instruction within schools. Ross was nominated by colleague Diana Trigloff for his more than 30 year participation in and support of music. In addition, colleague Lisa McCallion and Superintendent Roger Pfeuffer submitted support letters to AMEA.

Sixteen schools recently earned a total of $24,800 for demonstrating conservation, improving efficiency, and using renewable resources from Jan. 1, 2004 through Dec. 31, 2004 through the district's Resources Efficiency Awareness Program, also known as REAP. The following is a list of the winning schools and the monetary award they received: Utterback, $5,000; Whitmore, $4,000; Safford, $3,000; Hudlow, Doolen, and Catalina, $2,000 each; Davis, Hughes, Johnson, Kellond, Lineweaver, Manzo, Ochoa, Robins, Sewell, and Soleng Tom, $600 each.

Several Utterback students were named winners in the American Friends Service Committee's "Eyes Wide Open" short essay contest. Rebecca Bommersbach placed first, winning $200; Serena Dippolito placed second, winning $100; Lynley Price placed third, winning $50; and Victoria Cannon placed fifth, winning $25. These students will read their winning entries at an Iraq war memorial event from 11 a.m. to noon on Sunday, March 5 at Armory Park. Participants were required to write an essay that answers the question, "If you were a fly on someone's shoulder right now in Iraq, what would your sensory observations be?" In addition, the following students received honorable mention: Danae Jaurez, Piper Jack Conrad, Jeanette Gaxiola, Calliandra Lombard, Kaitlin Walsh, Gypsy Estrada, Genevieve Roublick, Sarah Ochoa, Alyssa Takagi, Tess Nunan Szadkowski, Elise Ramirez, Christina Gallo, Rebecca Edmonson, Della Wilsey, Chelsea Carter, Katie Pettit, Mariah Davidson, Phoenix Smithey, Tonee Sores, Angelita Liendo, Adam Cruz, Ben Sax, Geneca Vasquez, and Alexis Soto.

Students from several TUSD schools presented at the University of Arizona's Undergraduate Biology Research Conference on Jan. 29 as part of the Manduca Project, a TUSD outreach program offered through the University. Davis students Adrianna Rodriguez, Bryan Manjarrez, Diego Olivas, Felicia Dalton, Carlos William Arnot-Hopffer, and Rikki Lopez as well as Rogers students Makaela Hurrell, Evan Montiel, Max Vance, Gregory Doitch, America Garcia-Quezada, Asia Marie Haro, and Daniel Woodruff presented posters and answered extensive questions posed by university professors and college students. In addition, Tucson High student Jaime Campos presented his investigation, titled "Effects of pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) T-type secondary symbionts on the behavior of a natural enemy, Aphidius ervi, in a Y-tube," along with UA undergraduate students' investigatory presentations.

The 2004 Tucson Rodeo Parade, held on Feb. 24, was announced by students from Utterback's drama program. Elizabeth Chamberlain, Jessica Gardner, Tonee Jones, Arielle Kuzdal, Terra Amanda Myers-Tretbar, Zachary Riter, Patricia Ray, Shalina Aguirre, Chanel Carrasco, Alanna Castro, Mariah Davidson, Denise Fuentes, Kristin Grijalva, Kierstin Kohn, Marbella Lopez-Payan, Olivia Mayorga, George Ortega, Marissa Sandoval, Blake Andrew Smith, and Sarah Thomas stood at various locations along the parade route to describe the entries.

Students from the Project APS have been collaborating with Pima Community College to encourage the community to recycle. In November, they unveiled the above poster that has since been displayed at all PCC campuses. Participating students and coordinators include: (front row, from left) Cara Smith, Debra Asencia, Marisela Ramirez, Kimberly Thomas, and Merry Ireland; (second row) Paul Smith, Judi Gard, Simon Fregosa, Raul Murrieta, and Dan Perino. To learn more about the recycling effort, read the Pima News article.

Encourage A Student, Or Yourself, To Read A Book: The Tucson-Pima Public Library, along with public libraries across the state, is hosting the fifth year of OneBookAZ, a program that encourages people of all ages to read. This year's featured books are: Grand Ambition by Lisa Michaels and Sunk Without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde by Brad Dimock. Both give readers a unique glimpse into a mysterious piece of Arizona history by telling the story of Bessie and Glen Hyde's 1928 trip through the Grand Canyon on a homemade boat. Michaels's book is a fictional account of the journey while Dimock's is fact-based. The two authors will discuss and sign their books at the Joel D. Valdez Main Library from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 3. Both books will be available for purchase at the signing. This year's children's book selection is Frindle, by Andrew Clements, which tells the story of a fifth-grader with a gift for creative ideas and a taste for troublemaking. For more details about the program visit the Tucson-Pima Public Library website.

Opportunity For High School Journalism Students: The Arizona Republic and Arizona State University are sponsoring a summer journalism institute for high school students June 5 through June 18 at ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The institute prepares students for college and a career in journalism and includes professional instruction, discussions with Republic journalists, a tour of KAET 8 (Phoenix's PBS station), and university classes. Up to 15 students will be selected to participate through a competitive application process, all of whom will be awarded institute tuition, residence hall fees, weekday meals, and educational materials. Application deadline is April 18 and selected students will be notified by May 2. For application information call (602) 444-8846 or visit the Arizona Republic Newspapers in Education website.

Student Poster Contest: The Arizona League of Conservation Voters invites elementary students to design a poster describing methods to conserve water for their 2005 Water Conservation Poster Contest. Governor Janet Napolitano will present award certificates to contest winners on Earth Day, April 22, at the State Capitol building. Winning posters will be displayed at the State Capitol throughout the month of May. Entry deadline is April 10. For more information or to download the entry form go to www.azlcvedfund.org.

Student Writing Skill Improvement Program: The University of Arizona is offering a writing skills improvement program for students July 11 through 29. Open to high school students and teachers, the Summer Institute for Writing and Thinking Across the Curriculum gives participants the opportunity to work with others to enhance his or her writing ability. A graduate seminar is offered to attending teachers. Full scholarships are available for minority and economically disadvantaged students. Application deadline is April 29. To request information or an application call 621-5849 or visit the institutes's web page.

Attention Teachers Grades 1-5: The Nature Conservancy offers educators a free 45-minute program appropriate for grades one through five titled "Tucson: Our Home in the Desert." The lesson teaches about Tucson's unique ecoregion, how it is changing, and what we can do to preserve its beauty and includes a hands-on activity, slide show, and opportunities for discussion. For more information contact Dorothy Boone by email at dboone@tnc.org or by phone at 547-3437.

Math Made Fun: The 2005 season of the educational television program Do The Math is underway. The show airs Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. and Wednesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on the UA Channel, which can be found on channel 76 on both Comcast and Cox cable systems, and can also be viewed anytime via the internet at www.uachannel.com. The program is structured to meet the educational needs of middle and high school students preparing for AIMS and gives viewers a unique look at math through everyday activities including art, games, and puzzles.

Thanks From TUSD: The TUSD Print Shop has recently received donations of several pieces of equipment to replace machines that have been in use for over 20 years. Jordan Family Printers, owned by Greg Overstreet, donated a Silvermaster AM model SP-873 platemaker. Sunshine Media donated an OV ACCUVAC exposure system. The company's general manager William 'Howie' Hibbs and plant manager Marty Martinson, both Palo Verde graduates have expressed a desire to give back to the District. Sunshine Media has also partnered with Pueblo's Graphic Communications and Printing department to mentor students who desire to enter a career in the graphics industry. Hollis Graphics, owned by John Matey and managed by Marc Confer, donated a DS Screen Companica Process Camera model C 6500 E. The total of these donations exceeds $30,000 in replacement equipment. We would like to thank these companies for their generous support.

Free Fun, Food & Baseball: On May 3 and May 4 the Pima County Sheriff's Department and the Tucson Police Department will sponsor DARE/GREAT Day 2005 at Tucson Electric Park. Admission to the activities and Sidewinders' game are free to teachers and students, along with a free lunch. Deadline to register is April 29. For more information or to register visit the DARE/GREAT Day 2005 website.

At their Feb. 8 regular meeting the Board adopted a resolution authorizing and providing for the execution, issuance and sale of $47 million in bonds at a true interest cost of a 3.92 percent. This represented the first sale of bonds from the $235 million bond program authorized by the voters in the November 2004 election.

Lorrane McPherson reported on $10 million the State of Arizona is providing to school districts for tutoring high school juniors who have not yet passed one or more portions of the AIMS test. As of Feb. 8, 265 tutors have signed up to provide tutoring to 1,437 students who are eligible to receive nine hours of tutoring each. If all students receive the tutoring they are eligible for, the reimbursement to the district from the state would be $387,990.

The Board appointed Betty Ann Warfield as Assistant Principal at Wright and Cindy Hurley as the District Testing Coordinator. They also approved recognizing Feb. 13 through Feb. 19 as National Career and Technical Education Week in TUSD.

After hearing that there was great support for an Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) at Cholla High Magnet School the Board approved the program's establishment as it would fit into Cholla's law related studies and law magnet curriculum emphasis.

At the Feb. 22 special meeting, the board discussed and approved the following budget reduction measures for the 2005-2006 school year:

• Retain full-day kindergarten funding with approval of a proclamation to be sent to the state legislature and Governor.
• Redirection of half of K-3 money to fund all-day kindergarten.
• Change formula for staffing K-5 as 24:1 for kindergarten, 29:1 for 1-5 thus reducing total number by 43 teachers.
• Change middle school staffing formula from 26.3 to 27.3 thus reducing total number by 19.4 teachers.
• Change High School staffing formula from 27.9 to 28.9 thus reducing total number by 20.2 teachers.
• Begin dual principalships in 8 schools, eliminating 4 principal positions, pending a review by the court if necessary. The affected schools are Drachman and Carrillo, Van Horne and Wrightstown, Richey and Jefferson Park, and Borton and Holladay.

At the March 8 regular meeting, Superintendent Pfeuffer recognized the following men for their bravery and quick thinking in extinguishing a fire on Feb. 8, which began on a school bus as a result of an electrical malfunction: Roy Gibson, fleet and heavy maintenance equipment mechanic; Bruce Slabaugh, fleet and heavy equipment maintenance lead; Paul Soto, upholsterer; Doug Watson, fleet and heavy equipment mechanic; and Dennis Westman, fleet and heavy equipment mechanic. They prevented a larger disaster by moving the surrounding buses a safe distance away from the fire.

Mr. Pfeuffer also reported that 67 TUSD schools reduced utility costs during calendar year 2004 to save taxpayers over $760,000. He recognized 16 schools that earned REAP awards for the highest points, or for demonstrating more than 30 percent utility savings (see the staff success section for the list of schools).

Lorrane McPherson presented information to the Board on the three-pronged design for TUSD summer school in 2005. Subsequently the Board approved an increase in tuition for summer school for the first time since 2000, from $160 per credit to $180 per credit, from $90 per half credit to $100 half credit, and from $40 per quarter credit to $60 per quarter credit. The K-8 program tuition was increased from $175 to $195.

The Board proclaimed March as Social Work Month in the District and April 2 through April 9 as Hans Christian Andersen Week.

The Board approved changes in the school calendar for the 2005-2006 school year. This included eliminating the extended year calendar, thus returning the three remaining Extended Year Opportunities Schools (Mission View, Hollinger, and Wakefield) to a traditional year calendar beginning next school year.

Lastly, Alyson Nielson was appointed as Director, Employment Services, for Human Resources.

Tucson Unified School District
1010 East 10th Street, Tucson, Arizona, 85719

Governing Board
Bruce Burke, President; Adelita Grijalva, Clerk;
Joel T. Ireland; Judy Burns; Alex Rodriguez

Superintendent
Roger F. Pfeuffer

Interim Director of Public Relations
Estella Zavala

Communications Specialist/Writer
Jennea Moore

Tucson Unified School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, religion or disability in admission or access to, or treatment or employment, in its educational programs or activities.

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