Budget
Budget Transparency


The Michigan Legislature added language to the State School Aid Act (MCL 388.1618(2)) which requires each Michigan public school district to make several financial reports available on its Web page.  Dowagiac Schools is working to comply with these new requirements.

 
  Fiscal Year 2012-13 Board Approved Budget
      --1st Budget Revision 2012-13
  Personnel Expenditures
  Current Operating Expenditures
  Current Bargaining Agreements
       • DEA (Teachers)
       • DUESPA (Custodians/Maintenance/Transportation)
  Employer Sponsored Health Care Plans
       • Administrators
       • Maintenance/Transportation       
       • Teachers
       • Vision/Dental/Life - Whole District
       • Whole Group Quote        
  Audited Financial Statements
  District Paid Association Dues
  Employee Compensation Information
  District Paid Lobbying Costs (NONE)
  DUS Educator Evaluation System
  Dowagiac Union Schools has a rigorous, transparent, and fair performance  
  evaluation system in place that: 
  • Evaluates teachers and school administrators' job performance at least annually with multiple direct observations;
  • Incorporates student growth measures as a significant portion of evaluation based on student growth and assessment data, and provides teachers and administrators with relevant data;
  • Uses research-based measures to determine student growth;
  • Uses multiple rating categories (highly effective, effective, minimally effective, and ineffective) that take into account data on student growth as a significant factor;
  • Uses the evaluations, at a minimum, to inform decisions regarding all of the following:
    1. The effectiveness of teachers and administrators,
    2. Promotion, retention, and development of teachers and school administrators,
    3. Granting of tenure or full certification, or both,
    4. Removing ineffective tenured and untenured teachers and administrators, and
    5. Evaluation results are used to inform ongoing job-embedded professional development
  Data Dashboard -- click this link www.mischooldata.org 
  to view a snapshot of various measurable components of Dowagiac Union Schools