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.
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.
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1 comment:
(not from New London, but a Day reader)
It is crazy that the towns in this state are mandated to produce and vote on budgets prior to the state locking in their bits. You will not have any certainty of grants or other state funding into local budgets until far after New London must vote on theirs.
So no one in the town/BOE can give a clear picture of what the outside funding will be. I saw that the latest federal stimulus is giving moneys to special ed and Title One (remedial).
And I can not see how such an allocation could be construed by federal as short term stimulus! But that is another story.
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