Thursday, July 06, 2006

July 6, 2006 Ricky Bruce: No New School Funding

This headline is tricky.

Read it again. Because it all depends on what the meaning of "new" is!

According to Ricky's document, the school budget for the 2006-2007 school year will be $3.8 million dollars higher than last year's 2005-2006 school budget.

The $3.8 million "new" revenue is made up of $2.1 million "new" state BEP funding dollars and $1.7 million "new" local growth dollars, bus note revenue, etc.

No new school funding?

It all depends on what the meaning of new is.

The schools will receive and spend $3.8 million dollars more than they did in the previous year, that sure seems like new funding from somewhere.

Hopefully, the new money, old money, or whatever it is called will be spent wisely.

The real keys to student success and achievement are a disciplined classroom, uninterrupted instructional time, parental involvement, personal responsibility on the part of students, and a focus on the time-honored basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic (or math, if you prefer).

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