Reform

AURORA PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM

Contracted Licensed Teachers                        2,099

Contracted Staff/Administration                    1,943

            Total                                                                            4,042

AURORA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL

Contracted Licensed Teachers                          119

Contracted Other Staff                                      97

            Total                                                                              216

AURORA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL 12/10/10

Teacher salaries                                                           $5,379,576

Budget                                                                        $9,877,373 (+)                       

TOTAL FOR ALL GENERAL AURORA PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDING 12/10/10

$279,476,298

TOTAL GENERAL FUNDING FOR ELEMENTARY TO HIGH SCHOOL

$143,014,170

Almost 50% of the funding of APS does not go to the elementary to high schools. It is in the hands of the bureaucracy.

Teachers receive about 30% of the APS funding. 

The APS ‘on-time’ graduation rate is 45.5%.  Aurora Central High School’s graduation rate is much lower. 

An average of 400 students become parents every year at Aurora Central High School

 Dropouts from the class of 2008 will cost Colorado almost $4.3 billion in lost wages over their lifetimes. 

Dropouts from the class of 2008 will cost Washington almost $7.3 billion in lost wages over their lifetimes.

If the male graduation rate were increased by only 5 percent, the nation would see an annual savings of $4.9 billion in crime-related costs.

Aurora Public Schools will be reducing $595,000 of classroom educational material from the budget. 

WE MUST ELIMINATE THE BUREACRACY AND GET THE TEACHERS, STUDENTS and MONEY BACK IN THE CLASSROOM.

OUR and THEIR FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT.