Comments on: May CPI down 1.2% — a negative contingency budget cap for 2010-11? http://blog.nyscoss.org/2009/06/17/april-cpi-down-12-a-negative-contingency-budget-cap-for-2010-11/ The Official Blog of the New York State Council of School Superintendents Wed, 18 Jan 2012 06:00:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bob Lowry http://blog.nyscoss.org/2009/06/17/april-cpi-down-12-a-negative-contingency-budget-cap-for-2010-11/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Bob Lowry Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:00:52 +0000 http://blog.nyscoss.org/?p=708#comment-55 Just for the record, Mr. Moore is not a school superintendent. I don't point that out to disparage his comments (he has made others on this blog) -- I wouldn't approve them for posting if I thought they had no value. But given our sponsorship, other readers might presume any comment author on our blog is a superintendent, and wonder which district he or she serves. Just for the record, Mr. Moore is not a school superintendent. I don’t point that out to disparage his comments (he has made others on this blog) — I wouldn’t approve them for posting if I thought they had no value. But given our sponsorship, other readers might presume any comment author on our blog is a superintendent, and wonder which district he or she serves.

]]> By: Jerry Moore http://blog.nyscoss.org/2009/06/17/april-cpi-down-12-a-negative-contingency-budget-cap-for-2010-11/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Jerry Moore Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:53:36 +0000 http://blog.nyscoss.org/?p=708#comment-54 Bob, The bigger problem is that school boards agree to COLAs before they know what the rate of inflation is. They agree to them years in advance. You can't fix that by making the Consumer Price Index calculation more current. More importantly, school boards agree to COLAs without any conditional language rolling back the size of increases under certain trigger events. This conditional language is used in some other states and routinely used by some school districts within them. Educators and school board members know they can't predict the economic future, yet they continue to act as if they can--or as if it doesn't matter that they can't. Bob,

The bigger problem is that school boards agree to COLAs before they know what the rate of inflation is. They agree to them years in advance. You can’t fix that by making the Consumer Price Index calculation more current. More importantly, school boards agree to COLAs without any conditional language rolling back the size of increases under certain trigger events. This conditional language is used in some other states and routinely used by some school districts within them. Educators and school board members know they can’t predict the economic future, yet they continue to act as if they can–or as if it doesn’t matter that they can’t.

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