Del Mar Schools Education Foundation is looking for funds to fund PE, Science,technology Art and Music at $50,000 annual average salaries?

Really are you serious?  8 schools, 5 teachers each school = 2,000,000.00 with the average income of 50 thousand dollars per year?  They are only going to be at work for 9 months of the year. I mean really, 40,0000 average yes but 50? That is far to high. I feel like someone is mis managing money .

As a parent with children in the DMUSD I am confused as to why our curriculum doesn’t include science and technology in the first place! what year are we in?

Type: School / School District

Median Salary by Job

National Salary Data (?All compensation data shown are the gross, national median (50th percentile). Pay can vary greatly by location. To view local data, take the PayScale survey.)

High School Teacher
$43,756

Elementary School Teacher
$40,702

Middle School Teacher
$42,482

Special Education Teacher, Preschool, Kindergarten, or Elementary School
$41,722

Special Education Teacher, Secondary School
$44,346

Secondary School Teacher
$42,574

Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP)
$49,383

Country: United States | Currency: USD | Updated: 28 Mar 2011 | Individuals Reporting: 53,813

 

It appears to me that the DMSEF is over paying teachers, they do not even work year round!  DMUSD also has more half days that the San Diego school District and they also have more days out of school. I just don’t get it. Someone please tell me why it takes two million dollars to fund 40 teachers /5 teacher over 8 schools.  I believe we could get the job done in half the amount with less teachers and still have the same effect, maybe because they get paid more that the average teacher across the country they will stay later at school and take more time to contact the parents. 

 

It’s just my opinion, whats yours.

 

pamela~

Employment Development Department (EDD) offers training to improve job skills to the underworked in San Diego.

Over the last three weeks I have toggled back and forth between VA EDD Representative  to New Horizons Admissions Counselor, I  am a veteran and I have tried repeatedly to utilize the resources that are supposed to be available. My first issue comes up when we discuss intelligent people. It is very frustrating to talk to someone behind a counter who does not appear to have your best interest heart, to make a matter worse is when the person does not know in detail how resources work or what resources work best for the individual in question.

 

After toggling between the VA counselor and the New Horizons rep (Education Counselor), I was just instructed to go back to the EDD located on University Ave and seek my “case worker” .  Honestly ? Case worker?  Was I issued one? I remember vaguely , ah yes, her…….

 

Over 8 months ago, I went to the One Stop Career Center located on University Ave in San Diego , California. As I entered the building and appropriate floor I was not greeted right away as the elderly lady was preoccupied with matters on her desk. After standing blankly at the counter for a few minutes, she acknowledged me with a glance up and a quick statement “Just sign your name there and we will call you” attitude.  I signed my name and sat, as she had instructed, after twenty minutes of waiting she called me to the counter and asked if I had been there before, she took my driver license  made a copy and issued me a yellow card and instructed me to wait further to talk to a guidance counselor.  I waited another 34 minutes and spoke to a woman,  who almost immediately referred me over to the VA representative. She began with saying she didn’t’ know why I was referred to her since I was a veteran.  She instructed me to go to the imperial ave One Stop Career Center on Imperial Ave. because they had many representatives there and because I could go any day of the week. She gave me a brief tour, told me that I could use the facilities anytime for computer work, faxing or classes on jobing.   Was she my case worker????  I will tell you this tomorrow when I go to see her, but for now  let me tell you that between New Horizons employees getting ill, and passing around the customer, or the case overloading whatever it is , let me make things easier for everyone.

EDD needs to update their page/website/program to include the following:

• Training request- online submission- I should not receive ten thousand calls from schools all over the country , I should receive a call from my case worker who should then contact the local training provider and provide my eligibility authorization, the local training provider then should call me the client and let me know when I should arrive for training orientation.This would improve the process
• Requirement Eligibility - online screening
• Career counselors at EDD initiate contacts at each eligible client (the unemployed worker) and the training provider listed on their site to locate appropriate training processor for their client .
• Create  online support for the education process.
• Make the center truly ONE STOP better yet make it LAST STOP! By increasing the incentive to employ through the center
• Creating a more supportive network that starts with treating the unemployed worker as the client.
• database houses client information and auto fills for applications qualified for.
• client is notified  which services will be automatically provided.
• daycare- does the state currently insist ALL daycares and after school providers receive deductible for accepting low income  or elderly, disabled students?
• transportation- low cost auto sale or leasing besides public transportation
• resume assistance/training
• food- Calwin link
• housing-HUD Affordable Housing  HPRP
• Living expenses - Charity links
• training-
• medical
• Career Counselor should be  the first line support while on EDD
• Remove all of the advertisement links- instead of all of these outside distractions, educational training offices calling like mad, and the credit card repair companies, just because I opened a link on EDD this is WRONG!

That’s about it for now as I have a family to mind.

Trying to track down my check, use the online tele cert, find a job using the One Stop Career Center or finding help at the depatment of human service is like having two full time jobs!

Crazy

How was your experience, I would love to hear what you feel could be done to make the Unemployment transition move smoother –.

~Pamela~

HOMELESS in San Diego ! My lovely experience in San Diego.

Back in August I was asked to leave my apartment in Carmel Valley, Ca. I had lost my job, been recovering from Cancer and well my landlord could not wait for my rent checks, she refused to reduce the rent and opted for us to move out so she could sell.
For three weeks I scampered all over town, looking for a rental. Each "affordable housing" opportunity turned into a rejection.

Regardless, this was the week that "Operation Stand Down" was taking place.

I went to he VA Social Services representative and explained my delima. I need a place to live for myself and my two preteen daughters.

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