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ast year's school-board elec-
were tinged with the
threat of charter schools,
new funding formulas and
talk of the religious right.
In Bloomfield Hills, like many
districts, the results of the issues
debated 12 months ago have
made their way into next week's
school board elections.
Three candidates running for
a single seat are offering up their
best ways to deal with tighter
budgets and education competi-
tion. Two of the three insist the
threat of the radical right re-
mains.
Howard Ellman, Janet
Lemons and Bruce Budde are vy-
ing for the position.
Ms. Lemons suggests cost-cut-
ting measures such as increas-
ing class size by one student for
a continued savings or examin-
ing college-like
options of larger
lecture sections
augmented with
smaller, longer
laboratory set-
tings. She thinks
sharing of instructors across dis-
trict lines, for specialized subjects,
could be a viable option.
'We need to maximize efforts
while cutting costs. But if our
next millage loses in 1996, it will
have a corrosive effect. We're kid-
ding ourselves if we think that
education doesn't cost," Ms.
Lemons said.
An attorney for the Veterans
Administration, Ms. Lemons has
also worked as a teacher and
guidance counselor.
Mr. Ellman recently restruc-
tured his own architecture busi-
nesses — Integrated Design
Group and Dynamic Design Lim-
ited. He feels that his background
and experience would serve him
well on the school board.
'We went from 16 to four em-
ployees. We're doing as much
work now as we did in the mid-
1980s," Mr. Ellman said. "It
wasn't until we put everything
on the table and assessed every
expenditure that we figured out
how to be cost efficient and ef-
fective. Now we need to do the
same thing in the schools."
Since Gov. John Engler im-
plemented the concept of foun-
dation grants to equalize funding
in the schools around Michigan,
districts like Bloomfield Hills,
West Bloomfield and Southfield
have had to look for ways to
make up the difference in spend-
ing. Foundation grants, the lev-
el of spending per student
decided upon by the state, equal
$6,500. Bloomfield Hills spends
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$10,500 per pupil. The district
must pass its next millage — for
1996 — to maintain that level of
local spending in the future. A
hold-harmless clause allows dis-
tricts to retain current spending
until such a vote.
Mr. Ellman would like to put
his fund-raising and grant-writ-
ing experience, and suggestions
developed through the Legisla-
tive Action Network — a group
of Bloomfield Hills parents he
joined to keep school dollars in
the district — to work.
Mr. Budde, an eight-year
Bloomfield Hills resident, semi-
retired from IBM, promises he
won't support any kind of tax in-
crease.
'We've got to learn to live with-
in our budget," Mr. Budde said.
All three candidates have chil-
dren in Bloomfield Hills Public
Schools. Mr. Ell-
man and Ms.
Lemons are
pleased with the
education their
children have re-
ceived. Mr. Bud-
de is critical.
"Academic content is down 30
percent in the last five years. We
don't teach math tables beyond
nine anymore," Mr. Budde said.
"We used to think education c\'
dealt with knowledge. Now we're
dealing with behavior and atti-
tude instead of content."
Mr. Budde suggests teachers
release weekly lesson plans to
parents, plus an advance copy of
proposed curricula.
'We're talking about tradi-
tional and rigorous academic ed-
ucation — science, literature,
computers, math. Sex and drug
programs at the schools offer al-
ternatives beyond what students
are learning at home. I think
that's wrong," Mr. Budde said.
"Critical thinking and decision
making should not be taught in
the schools."
Such statements have led
some in the community to refer
to Mr. Budde as the "fundamen-
talist" candidate. Mr. Budde said
he has no religious agenda.
Although Mr. Ellman does not
agree with much of Mr. Budde's
campaign, he said, 'The three Rs
are important to us all. We all
want our kids to have a good ba-
sic education in the major disci-
plines. In that regard we all have
the same goal."
For more information on
school board candidates in seven
districts, see the Jewish Com-
munity Council survey results in-
serted in this issue. ❑
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