Our Board prioritized raising compensation for all employees and restoring medical benefits for teachers. and nothing is more important to a great education than having great teachers.
The result was that it was incredibly difficult for MDUSD to attract or retain teachers…. Even worse, teachers did not have medical benefits- their own union (MDEA) had negotiated that away in a previous contract. When I joined the Board in 2012, MDUSD teachers were second to last in the county in compensation. You may have heard that MDUSD had a $90 million reserve but now the District is in financial trouble- let’s explore that. If you’d like a deeper dive and pretty graphs on CA education funding, I recommend this article.
Diablo has additional challenges based on being squarely in the middle- just below the threshold of low-income students to receive additional funding as part of the state’s Local Control Funding Formula and lacking a parcel tax that nearby districts (San Ramon, Acalanes, etc.) have in place. Recent funding increases helped with that some, but those increases have been negated by higher costs (especially in mandated contributions to shore up underfunded employee retirement programs) and the higher cost of living- a $70k salary goes a lot further in Arkansas than it does in the Bay Area. Until just a couple of years ago, California ranked in the lowest of 20% of state funding on a per pupil basis. There is really no excuse for it considering we are the 5th largest economy in the world and one of the most highly taxed states (the rare trifecta of having income, property and sales tax). Every other available square meter in the theatre was filled up by the adults from the village who wanted to see the play as well.California consistently and drastically underfunds public education. “It is truly a privilege to play for these kids, most of whom are looking at a theatre play for the first time and who are really watching and listening, all wide-eyed and amazed. 2018 about performing Jabber internationally “All equal in brilliant, nonsensical youth opera” “In my twelve years as a reviewer I seldom saw a performance more relevant to this target group.” Technical director: Thijs Kempers reviews For his Jabber-language he shops in different European languages in an extremely creative way, making the current theme of the refugee problem understandable for everyone from the age of six.” CREDITSĬast: Sarah Bannier, Rogier van Erkel, Lucas Schilperoort, Jochem Smit “With his libretto for Jabber from Theatergroep Kwatta, language virtuoso Jibbe Willems doesn’t only search for the boundaries of our language area, he skilfully jumps over them. Jibbe Willems won a Golden Cricket (Gouden Krekel) 2019 for his libretto for Jabber. The show is entirely sung, as it should be with birds. Jabberbabble is a family show for all ages. But what if we don’t speak the same language, but still manage to understand each other? Maybe, before long, we won’t be strangers anymore. Nobody understands their jibber jabber lingo. Jabberbabble is a show about four birds and one nest.
There are ne’er-do-wells, wanderers, worriers, fortune-seekers and wildlings.īut what happens when birds of different feathers flock together? Do they communicate? Do they understand each other? Do they think the other one is an odd bird, and push it out of their nest? Or, do they share their dreams and make room for each other? In summer they are here, in winter they stay there. Others are restless and fly back and forth. Some birds build a nest and choose to stay in it forever. FOR AN OVERVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL JABBERBABBLE DATES, CLICK BELOW!
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