The Final Report - Malcolm Shabazz City High School, Madison WI

Decision Item #24:Background:ELIMINATE SELECT SOCIAL WORK FUNCTIONS AND REDUCEALLOCATION ACCORDINGLYThe 2000-2001 Adopted Budget for Student Services includes anallocation of 37.3 social workers. According to the District’s schoolsocial work service delivery framework…”[the social workers] arehired …to enhance the District’s ability to meet its academic mission,especially where a collaboration between home, school, andcommunity is key to achieving that mission.”Social workers are allocated to individual schools using a formula thattakes into account projected overall enrollment, the number of specialeducation students, and the poverty rate at a given school. Theformula is weighted most heavily to schools with high poverty rates.The District produces an annual report summarizing social workservices, entitled, “Data Summary and Analysis for Social WorkServices.” This report provides a summary of social workers’ timespent for each functional area. Using the 2000-2001 report, weidentified the following allocation of FTE and costs by function 7 :Social WorkersFunction% of TimeFTEAllocationCostAllocationIndividual Services 35.67% 13.3 $ 851,426Groups and Classroom Interventions 11.94% 4.5 $ 285,002Home-School Communication 14.46% 5.4 $ 345,154Partnerships with Community Agencies 9.81% 3.7 $ 234,160Program Development/Implementation 11.45% 4.3 $ 273,306Services for Safe, Caring, AcademicallySuccessful Schools16.70% 6.2 $ 398,621Total 37.3 $ 2,386,954Included in these functions are numerous sub-functions. Of the subfunctionsperformed by social workers, several are instructionalsupport or discretionary. Following is a list of sub-functions that fallinto each category, with discretionary or support items listed in italics.INDIVIDUAL SERVICES:9 assessment/screening9 counseling/problem solving9 crisis intervention9 teacher/principal/grade level consultation9 personal counseling/consultation/problem solving staff7This data includes all social workers (including those allocated with RISE or as supplemental). Forpurposes of this analysis, it is assumed all social workers on average, have the same breakdown of timeby function. Only social workers funded from student services are included with this decision item, asothers are addressed elsewhere (with the RISE program decision item or in the overall allocationdiscussion).Virchow, Krause & Co. LLP Page 115March 11, 2002