Kathy Friend and Krista Stockman were on WBOI today parroting the company line about the dire and dismal buildings. Kathy lamented the loss of money in the capital fund because of the tax caps. She failed to mention that most of the hit to the fund has been to pay for the failed "racial balance" program, which is Wendy's sacred cow. They haven't learned that transparency and honesty might be the best way to approach this issue. They still think spin works better.
Then Krista chimes in and says we need air conditioning because more of the kids come from air conditioned homes and can't adjust to non air conditioned schools. What I see in the statistics is more kids in FWCS on free lunch, living in poverty and homelessness every year. But at the same time more of them have air conditioning? Come on . They think we're idiots.
This is going to end up as a ballot referendum. Taxpayers will vote their pocketbooks. If FWCS overshoots the acceptable number they will get nothing, just like last time.
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The Catholic schools are dismissal! Yet, they still have decent to very good ISTEP scores.
Bishop Luers High School, where Mark GiaQuinta went to school, was built in the early sixties. They spend nothing on ugrades or remodeling for 50 yrs. Two years ago they spent a few million which I think included air conditioning. Their passing rates on the state tests were consistenly around 90%.
The last time around they went from needing one billion to one half billion needed within a one month time. Why no one questioned the logic of their change was interesting to me. "Grifters" keeps coming to my mind.
The last time around they went from needing a billion to one half billion in a month of time. No one questioned this change which was interesting to me. The word "grifters" keeps coming to mind.
The last time the yellow ribbon task force members went through their motions and at the end wrote down the number they though they should ask for. They ranged from $350MM (Nelson Peters) on up. They settled on $500MM and made their wish list total up to that amout.
There won't be any more rhyme or reason to the next number they come up with other than what they think they can get 51% of the voters to agree to.
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