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Dear School District Employees:

As I stated in my last email to you I value your insights, experiences and expertise. For that reason I would appreciate your responses to the following survey. Please click here to take the 16-question survey.

Many of you may not realize this but the district will be cutting funding in key academic support areas by nearly two million dollars while administration will receive more money and the "Other Finance Uses" line item will be increased from $31 thousand to $11.7 million.

Finally, I would love to get building based reports on a weekly basis. I will read each and everyone although it may take time to get to them all. Please include your concerns, your ideas and, again, your vision of the Des Moines School District and send them to me at jon_narcisse@yahoo.com. Thank you for your time and interest, and especially for all you do for our students.

P.S. I will be resuming my door-to-door outreach to parents in the district in the next couple of weeks. Getting parents involved in the academic lives of their children is vital to increased academic success. Last fall I started going door-to-door to encourage greater parental participation. If you have ideas on how this effort could be more effective please share
them with me.