A Look at the Financial Issues facing Arizona Public Schools

1. Arizona’s Broke What Does this Mean to the Grand Canyon School District FY 2010 (ends 6/30/10)

3. My advice for tough times: **Put “clever” on hold. **Basics rule! **Execution rules! **Showing up rules! **Excellence rules! **MBWA rules! Tompeters.com

4. My advice for tough times: **Keep it simple! **Transparency rules: Shoot straighter than straight! **Go for “small wins”! **“Thoughtful in all we do”—regardless of how much yogurt is hitting the fan. **In tough times, those who play the blame game in any way, shape, or form get the first pink slips! **Special for Hoarders: “Opportunistically” bulking up by buying big pieces of crap at bargain prices is tempting but truly a sign of advanced brain damage. Tompeters.com

5. My advice for tough times/Teachers/Admin: **Banish “gloomy/victim” from your personal demeanor— if it kills you! **“Determined”-“Gettin’ on with gettin’ on” is best. **The great juggling act: PMA while preparing for the worst. (Positive Mental Attitude—but know the drill if the recession goes 24 months, which it easily might. **Yesterday is dead and gone. Focus on what we’re gonna do Today! Tompeters.com

6. dEtErMiNEd

9. For 2010, Arizona Remains Among States With The Worst Budget Problems Source: National Conference of State Legislatures, 2009/Dennis Jones, NCHEMS

10. Arizona Joint Legislative Budget Committee Update on The State’s Economy October 22, 2009

15. The JLBC Staff projects that the FY 2010 ending balance will fall short of the budget by $(2.0) billion due to an FY 2009 ending balance shortfall, the impacts of the FY 2010 budget vetoes, lower thananticipated revenue collections in FY 2010, and changes in other FY 2010 budget projections as noted in the table below: Components of FY 2010 Estimated Shortfall Impact $ in millions FY 2009 Shortfall $ 478 FY 2010 Veto Impact 483 FY 2010 Revenues 698 Other FY 2010 Projections 300 Total $1,959

16. Percent of Children Ages 0 to 17 Living in Families with Less than a Living Wage (2007) Source: 2007 American Community Survey (Public Use Microdata Samples)/Dennis Jones, NCHEMS

17. National Higher Education Agenda NAU

19. The New ESEA By now, I'm sure everyone in this room is aware of the four areas of reform that are at the heart of our agenda. They are the statutory requirements of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—and they're driving just about everything my team and I are doing right now. First, we want to create college- and career-ready standards . Right now, academic standards are too low. We're lying to our students that they are being prepared to succeed in college or to compete in the globally competitive workplace. Second, we want highly effective teachers in every classroom and effective leaders in every school. To do that, we're going to need to change the way we recruit, prepare, retain, and reward teachers. Third, we want data systems that track students from grade to grade so they know whether they're on track to graduate and succeed in college or the workplace. Finally, we need to turn around our lowest performing schools . We have 2,000 dropout factories. Half of our nation's dropouts leave these schools without a diploma. Three-quarters of our minority dropouts are coming from these schools. -Arne Duncan,Secretary of Education Speech October 16, 2009

20. Source: Education at a Glance 2008, OECD Indicators Note: Figures for net exporters of students may be underestimated and overestimated for net importers.

22. Grand Canyon Schools Potential Loss of Funds: $150,000.00 - $350,000.00

26. A Crisis is Too Good An Opportunity To Pass Up!