Ending balances

[Martin Hittelman]

Districts are not spending their funding on offering classes. See attached ending balances. No wonder enrollment is decreasing. AB 705 has also contributed in those districts that are not offering any pre-transfer classes in English and Math.

Marty Hittelman

[Andrew Park]

Someone needs to ask the highly paid administrators and their consultants this question: How willing are they to bet their job that "17.5 productivity" can be achieved by cuts in class schedules and cancellation of "low-enrolled sections"?

Based on what we have seen (at Peralta) both pre-pandemic and during pandemic, my guess is "17.5 productivity" is no longer a reasonable productivity target based on underlying fundamentals (whether that's because fewer and fewer community college instructors are willing to teach huge sections with 100+ students in it, or it's because of underlying changes in our student population, particularly with UCs and CSUs expanding), and somehow all our administrators are on some kind of "suicide mission" for 17.5 productivity---and none of them are the first to get hurt when the mission predictably fails (and none of them are willing---or able---to critically underlying assumptions around the 17.5 productivity number).

Thank you for sharing, Marty.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 5:19 PM Martin Hittelman <mart...@gmail.com> wrote:

Districts are not spending their funding on offering classes. See attached ending balances. No wonder enrollment is decreasing. AB 705 has also contributed in those districts that are not offering any pre-transfer classes in English and Math.

Marty Hittelman

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