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Grossmont Union High School
District (GUHSD)
1.
The GUHSD increased its ending budgetary balance
by nearly $3 million over the last three years. We have reduced our base budget by $13 million,
producing an accumulated budgetary reduction of $30 million. The District
also paid off $28 million in construction debt over the same period. These
fiscally prudent measures were accomplished despite mid-year budget cuts from
the state, a one-year deficit in COLA, and the worst fiscal crisis since the
Great Depression. 
2. Districtwide, student scores have risen by an average of 20 points in API test scores over the past three years. Congratulations to our students and teachers for their hard work
3.
The GUHSD is successfully modernizing its
eleven high schools for the first time in nearly fifty years after passing Proposition
H. The $274
million bond grew to nearly $400 million with additional state matching funds.
4. The GUHSD increased employee salaries by nearly 11 percent over the last two years. District employees received a 6.89 percent salary increase for the 2006-07 school year, plus the equivalent of a 3 percent salary increase to cover the increased cost of health and welfare benefits over the past three years.
5. The GUHSD significantly enhanced student safety by adding video cameras; electrical, gas and fire systems; improved communication systems; and conducting safety audits by the former El Cajon Police Chief. Formation of the East County Gang Task Force also improved safety, resulting in less gang-related crime.
6. The GUHSD presently has some of the finest Principals and Vice Principals in San Diego County and the state. The District promoted eight of its current eleven Principals and twenty-eight of its forty Vice Principals over the last three years.
7. The GUHSD instituted a student recovery program which locates students who have dropped out of high school and helps them re-enroll. Our drop-out rate has been reduced from 506 students in 2003-2004 to 206 students in 2005-06. Since January 2005, 137 students have been given a second chance to succeed.
8. The GUHSD instituted a requirement that each high school is to have at least one female co-administrator.
9. The GUHSD reinstituted a teacher intern program with SDSU and is in the process of establishing minority teacher and math teacher intern programs to help address areas of critical teacher shortages.
10. The GUHSD saved millions by re-evaluating its expenditure of funds on the PowerSchool student information system. District staff has created a new teacher/parent/student information system which is cost efficient and responsive to the local needs of our educational clients .
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