Please come to the Informational Meeting at the school Monday at 7 PM, March 5, 2018! It will be good to meet the nominees and thank them for running.
Turning to the questions on the ballot, I recommend a “YES” vote for all proposals except for the school budget. On that item, I recommend a “NO” vote. I recommend a no vote not so much because spending per student for FY 2019 is up an absurd 32.2% from 2018’s record low amount. Rather, I think that we must send a message to the legislature that the school system is broken and that fixes cannot come from local school boards.
• Local boards cannot fix the funding of Special Ed.
• Our board refused to adopt a K-8 structure for Grand Isle county, something that could have contained costs by reducing the number of classrooms in the county and having a consolidated middle school of our own.
Voting NO will not impair the quality of the education for our children, but it might help to wake up the legislature.
When the board comes back with a new budget, I hope that they will not have dropped any programs. Indeed, I won’t be surprised if a new budget is virtually unchanged from the one proposed in the town report. So, please vote “NO” on the school budget and send a message to Montpelier saying that school funding must be changed in a way that provides equal educational opportunity for all Vermonters.
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