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CHAPTER I DESIGN OF THE STUDY 1.0 Purpose of the Study The District Administrator of the School District of Bruce, Ms. Deb Brown, the District Administrator of Ladysmith-Hawkins School District, Mr. Mario Friedel, the District Administrator of Weyerhaeuser Area School District, Mr. Christopher (Chris) Nelson, and the School Boards of the School District of Bruce, Ladysmith-Hawkins School District, and Weyerhaeuser Area School District determined it was in the collective best interests of their school organizations and communities to commission a Consolidation Feasibility Study to assess the status of their respective organizations, identify pressing organizational needs, develop viable alternatives for addressing those organizational needs, including the possibility of school district restructuring, and assist in fashioning a comprehensive plan of action to strengthen the organizations’ enrollments, finances, programs, services, staffing, facilities, and other operational components. Toward that end, the school districts sought and received funding from the State of Wisconsin to partially cost underwrite the engagement of the services of an independent third party neutral firm to conduct a Consolidation Feasibility Study. The School District of Bruce, Ladysmith-Hawkins School District, and Weyerhaeuser Area School District engaged the services of Roger Worner Associates, Inc. to conduct the Consolidation Feasibility Study. The Project Consultants were Drs. Roger and Kay Worner, President and Vice- President of Roger Worner Associates, Inc., Cedar, Minnesota. Drs. Roger and Kay Worner have served as principal investigators in over 300 studies © Roger Worner Associates, Inc. 1
of P-K-12 school districts (involving nearly 1,000 school districts), including numerous multi-school district studies in which participating school organizations considered enhanced collaboration/cooperation, restructuring, or consolidation as viable options for preserving and protecting school, community, student, program and service, staffing, and facility assets. It was determined the Consolidation Feasibility Study would include analyses of the school districts’ enrollments, enrollment trends, programs, services, staffing, facilities, and related organizational components. The study was designed to gather and analyze multi-school district data, present findings, draw conclusions, identify alternatives, and prepare recommendations that would be valuable for the District Administrators and School Boards of the School District of Bruce, Ladysmith-Hawkins School District, and Weyerhaeuser Area School District in delineating preferred courses of action for the future. The timetable for the Consolidation Feasibility Study spanned approximately 4½ months, commencing on or about July 30, 2008 and concluding on or about December 15, 2008. (It is to be noted that the contract document was not executed until August 11, 2008 and the first meeting with the school districts’ leaderships did not occur until August 20, 2008). 1.1 Need for the Study The leadership of the School District of Bruce, Ladysmith-Hawkins School District, and Weyerhaeuser Area School District recognize that, as a result of the organizations’ small critical masses by State of Wisconsin standards, © Roger Worner Associates, Inc. 2
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Page 5 and 6: The school districts have a need to
Page 7 and 8: Analyze financial trend data. Prep
Page 9 and 10: additional municipalities. The Scho
Page 11 and 12: Agriculture, agri-business, recreat
Page 13 and 14: What conclusions may be drawn about
Page 15 and 16: The School District of Bruce, Ladys
Page 17 and 18: CHAPTER II DISTRICT SIZE AND ENROLL
Page 19 and 20: School District of Bruce, Ladysmith
Page 21 and 22: TABLE 1-B SCHOOL DISTRICT OF BRUCE
Page 23 and 24: TABLE 1-LH LADYSMITH-HAWKINS SCHOOL
Page 25 and 26: levels. Over time, however, and wit
Page 27 and 28: TABLE 1-W WEYERHAEUSER AREA SCHOOL
Page 29 and 30: school district for the same eleven
Page 31 and 32: student enrollment growth on four o
Page 33 and 34: The Project Consultants concluded t
Page 35 and 36: In Table 4-W, the average daily mem
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Page 39 and 40: to other school districts through o
Page 41 and 42: 2007-08 was +6 students. The school
Page 43 and 44: During the 2007-08 school year, Lad
Page 45 and 46: the poverty line in Rusk County was
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Page 49 and 50: The Project Consultants observed th
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TABLE 5a-B SCHOOL DISTRICT OF BRUCE
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Wisconsin General Fund revenue decr
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The Project Consultants concluded t
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TABLE 6-LH LADYSMITH-HAWKINS SCHOOL
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TABLE 6-W WEYERHAEUSER AREA SCHOOL
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TABLE 7-B SCHOOL DISTRICT OF BRUCE
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District spent +$358/student or +8.
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exceeded the fund balance of the Sc
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increasing) their modest fund balan
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The 2006-07 equalized aid for the S
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The 2006-07 mill rate of Weyerhaeus
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compensatory adjustments in its adm
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Weyerhaeuser Area School District
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The School District of Bruce’s ac
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In the event of consolidation of th
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services, the numbers and types of
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average of 7.3 students/grade level
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TABLE 11-B SCHOOL DISTRICT OF BRUCE
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and science (6.0). The smallest arr
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the 2008-09 school year: Health Car
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Table 12-W details that Weyerhaeuse
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The Project Consultants review of t
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4.5 Total Professional Staffing Tre
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As delineated in Table 13-W, 42.2 f
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the nine year span of time from 199
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compared to the average of all Stat
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characteristic of Wisconsin school
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to accommodate the students served
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4.11 Staff Development The Project
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programming; CESA-based services; C
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classroom and resource/center-based
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4.16 Interview Perceptions: Distric
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Quality of the School Board: 7.1 Q
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CHAPTER V SCHOOL FACILITIES 5.0 Int
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environments in which “students e
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5.3 Overview of the School District
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and support space during the 2008-0
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subsequent further training in an i
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Other factors. As the Project Consu
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Computer laboratories (including Bu
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Art classroom is adequate; basic co
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Health Care Academy classrooms and
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The school is comprised of a gymnas
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5.5 Long-Term Facility Debt The Pro
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TABLE 19-W WEYERHAEUSER AREA SCHOOL
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consumption was $1.18/square foot.
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Is there probable cause for either/
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While the School District of Bruce
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would significantly benefit through
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school districts for total instruct
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or more viable school districts wit
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Ladysmith-Hawkins School District f
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feet/student and 404.5 square feet/
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through the merger of the three sch
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over the span of 19 years and has p
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Recommendation 2 That the School Di
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