How would becoming a cluster give us more control over budgetary decisions?
Once we are unified, we will have one voice when speaking to the district. District staff and board members have told us that a unified voice is far more influential than one person speaking at a board meeting. If our cluster priorities and goals are not achieved through conversation with the board, we could move forward in various ways including but not limited to: creating a cluster budgetary autonomy agreement (would need board approval), writing a petition for charter conversions, or hiring experts to assist in some sort of district split.