Referendum Season is upon us....

The New London Board Of Education has fired their first budget shot over the bow of the sinking tax payers’ ship survival. The board approved a $41,071,783 budget for 2009-10 amounting to a 3.39 percent increase. Unbelievable in this economy. The Board sent this to the City Council. The following was stated in the DAY “board members doubt that the spending plan will emerge from City Hall unscathed”. If the board doubts it will emerge unscathed why did they submit it as it was submitted? It just looks like they are not doing their job yet again.

Reading the Blog postings in the Day article one could conclude that the Board of Education does not know what they are doing as far as educational funding goes. One blogger claims to have requested a detailed breakdown of educational costs and sources of that funding. The same blogger claims that the Board of Education response was:
"It is impossible to break down the funding issue with specificity as the funding for public education is complex. Please review applicable statutes, both Federal and state, as well as the State Department of Education web site."
I found that difficult to comprehend. I will post on the DAY blog asking that the information be emailed to me. I will post that documentation here if and when I receive it. I cannot believe that anyone on the New London Board of Education would make a statement that is so foolish.

Clouetspeak Top Ten

Chris Clouet's Top Ten Excuses to the Taxpayers of White Plains for the Schools failing:

10. We are still in a transition period...it takes time to effect positive change.

9. It was this way when I got here.

8. What do you expect for $300,000 a year salary and benefits.

7. It's not my fault you're not smart enough to Google my name as part of your search.
6. It the socioeconomic conditions of the area.

5. All the money goes to the teacher's union! Blame them!

4. If we only had a Championship football team and rings!

3. We need a good Magnet School plan.

2. It's because of the No Child Left Behind Law!

AND THE NUMBER 1 REASON FOR THE WHITE PLAINS SCHOOLS FAILING IS:

It's the parents fault. Parents need to be more involved.

Just for your FYI

We need to wake up and face some hard facts, and they are: Twelve Americans are murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380 Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens.
Total U.S. troop deaths in Iraq are reported as 4,136 as of December 2008. That tells us that more Americans are murdered each month by illegal aliens than U.S. military forces killed by terrorists in the whole war against terrorism.
You should know the carnage perpetrated by illegal alien murderers represents only a fraction of the blood spilled against American citizens as a result of an open border and unenforced immigration laws.
While Rep. King reports 12 Americans are murdered daily by illegal aliens, he says 13 are killed by drunk illegal alien drivers - for another annual death toll of 4,745.
King also reports that eight American children are victims of sexual abuse by illegal aliens every day - a total of 2,920 annually.
Based on a one-year in-depth study, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes Institute of Atlanta estimates there are about 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the United States who have had an average of four victims each. That's a total of 960,000 sexual victims. She analyzed 1,500 cases from January 1999 through April 2006 that included serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides and child molestation committed by illegal immigrants.
As the number of illegal aliens in the United States increases, so does the number of American victims.
I, for one, support the Border Patrol and its checkpoints. One or more of the illegal aliens they have removed might have saved a Jefferson County family the death of a loved one. The last sentence written by Mr. Hepler says it all. "Leave us alone to go about our daily business; we'll call you when we need you."
If you need to call the Border Patrol, then isn't it already too late?