Think about this! Why do we need a COMPLIANCE OFFICER? We are paying $110,000 for this position. Why? Because the STATE feels our administrators aren't capable of doing their job? I mean our salary structure rewards IGNORANCE pretty well.
Well, what are we getting for our money? Well it turns out that the TRANSLATION issue we were supposedly over and above compliance on is probably going to cost an additional $100K. The legal services line in the SPED budget is increasing about $10K this year and in the last executive session it said on the agenda they would be discussing litigation strategy. What's that all about?
Anyway, I'm sure I am missing some things but do we really need any more examples to reach a conclusion?
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
DOLLAR DAZE III - SLIPPERY SEES AS SLIPPERY DOES
I guess it makes the budget more manageable and am sure it's COMFORTING TO KNOW YOU GOT SOME MAD MONEY STASHED IN THE BUDGET FOR OTHER THINGS. Kind of like a rainy day fund with a sunny forecast.
I am talking about the fact that the same amount, $64, 662, is budgeted for every teaching position. Only thing is.....
MOST TEACHER PROBABLY DON'T GET THAT MUCH. You see there's plenty of wiggle here because they're all not the same size rooms.
You see, you gotta budget like everybody gets the goods in vase they do, you know that BUMPING AND BIDDING BUSINESS What do you think happens with the difference between what you bidget and what you pay?
BEATS ME?
True transparency is more than seeing where money goes, it's seeing where it went.
I am talking about the fact that the same amount, $64, 662, is budgeted for every teaching position. Only thing is.....
MOST TEACHER PROBABLY DON'T GET THAT MUCH. You see there's plenty of wiggle here because they're all not the same size rooms.
You see, you gotta budget like everybody gets the goods in vase they do, you know that BUMPING AND BIDDING BUSINESS What do you think happens with the difference between what you bidget and what you pay?
BEATS ME?
True transparency is more than seeing where money goes, it's seeing where it went.
I'M NOT FINE WITH BEING OVERDUE
It is great to see the importance of reading stressed, HARRINGTON is lucky to have a principal that sees that and the resources to make it happen. You know since it was a LEVEL 4 school there has been extra state money to spread around. The cornerstone of that school has to be the LIBRARY.''NOW earlier this year, DR. LATHAM promised to try and get all our LEVEL 4 schools the same services as our very successful TURNAROUND schools,
Money was spent and the same educational consulting firm, SCHOOLWORKS, that the state paid for last year for our LEVEL 4 schools, GROUPS did this year for our LEVEL 3 ones. I even got to sit in on a FOCUS group. Funny though, I hear CENTERBOARD is giving away a ton of books but I haven't heard of any libraries being opemed up.
WOTRING'S NOMINATION PAPERS TO BE CHALLENGED
In an unusual move Wotring is challenging his own NOMINATION papers for LYNN SCHOOL COMMITTEE. When reached for comment on this breaking story WOTRING said the following,
"I want to be known as a candidate who demands integrity through accountability. Quite frankly, I grew suspicious when the so-called "nomination papers" were pulled on APRIL FOOL;S DAY. I said to myself, 'Stan must be up to something'. Well after coming to that conclusion, I just couldn't stand by and let Lynn voters be played for a fool."
STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN THIS GROUND-BREAKING INVESTIGATION!
"I want to be known as a candidate who demands integrity through accountability. Quite frankly, I grew suspicious when the so-called "nomination papers" were pulled on APRIL FOOL;S DAY. I said to myself, 'Stan must be up to something'. Well after coming to that conclusion, I just couldn't stand by and let Lynn voters be played for a fool."
STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS IN THIS GROUND-BREAKING INVESTIGATION!
Monday, June 17, 2013
DOLLAR DAZE III -WE'RE PAYING FOR A BUSLOAD OF TROUBLE
Somebody help me get this straight. Now everybody knows we got problems with class size. No argument there. To solve it they are planning on busing 7 busloads of 5 yr. old's all the way across town.....
WHILE....
we have a whole school at FALLON with a budget of $923,000 ($50 K just to heat it with gas) maybe 6 classrooms serving I'm sure a small number of kids who probably all get bused from somewhere else.
We seriously need to look at district wide re-zoning so that only the most medically fragile get bused.
I BELIEVE THE COMMUNITY IS THE STRONGEST THERAPEUTIC TOOL!
Don't listen to me, I'm just a parent who;s been there.
WHILE....
we have a whole school at FALLON with a budget of $923,000 ($50 K just to heat it with gas) maybe 6 classrooms serving I'm sure a small number of kids who probably all get bused from somewhere else.
We seriously need to look at district wide re-zoning so that only the most medically fragile get bused.
I BELIEVE THE COMMUNITY IS THE STRONGEST THERAPEUTIC TOOL!
Don't listen to me, I'm just a parent who;s been there.
CATHE'S CURSE
I knew she was TROUBLE when she walked in.....
Waiving a book of SPED laws and she's from CALLAHAN....
TROUBLE,
TROUBLE
Waiving a book of SPED laws and she's from CALLAHAN....
TROUBLE,
TROUBLE
DOLLAR DAZE III - THE ART OF INCREASING
have to admit there is an increase in next year's budget I was glad to see, sort of. That would be in the FINE ARTS department. It seems their budget increased almost $70,000 this year and well as a POET I may not be TOTALLY objective, what made mt heart jump was that salaries remained level while.......
the money looks like it's going to where the kids are.
the money looks like it's going to where the kids are.
Sunday, June 16, 2013
DOLLAR DAZE III - TALK JUST GOT CHEAPER
Surely this is covered by the big additions in other lines...
BUT....
$7000 was budgeted last year for IEP translation. this year - 0.
BUT....
$7000 was budgeted last year for IEP translation. this year - 0.
SPED STUDENT SHUFFLE
Listened tp a parent complain at OPEN MIKE about HOW the SPECIAL ED kids' classrooms are shuffled around taking those kids away from their community school. Of course, I am not a lawyer and I don't know the law but she was a MOTHER waving a SPED law book. All I know is that if I was LPS I would be nervous.
LYNN, LYNN CITY OF CRIMSON
DR/ LATHAM announced at Thursday night's LSC meeting that of the 4 students on the North Shore who got accepted into HARVARD/ One from ENGLISH, one from CLASSICAL, and one from ST. MARY'S.
Saturday, June 15, 2013
DOLL.AR DAZE III - WANT TO WASTE
Kennedy: Lynn kindergarten busing plan likely to hold
Something needs to be done to reduce crowding but it ain't this. It's a pretty well known fact that JUDY has a pretty definitive track record on WASTE MANAGEMENT. look at how she handled the recent rodent invasion.
OH. she didn't. Not really. Some trash taxes were levied bit the landlords and the rats didn't pay those.
She seems to have a history on imposing solutions on the easiest targets. Those five year old's don't vote, their parents will have a hard tome getting organized to fight it, and the overcrowding problem will APPEAR to be solved when possibly MASSES of parents REFUSE to send their kids on the bus since kindergarten is not MANDATORY.
OF COURSE.....
that could mean scores of first graders woefully unprepared which will translate to lower MCAS scores down the road and we all know how the world revolves around those.
Why are we spending $270,000 busing babies when we have kids more than 5 X'S grades ahead who could walk someplace for FREE!
DON'T WORRY THOUGH OL'JFK HAS THE ANSWER -
JUST FOR NOW
Maybe we should start calling her JFN!
Something needs to be done to reduce crowding but it ain't this. It's a pretty well known fact that JUDY has a pretty definitive track record on WASTE MANAGEMENT. look at how she handled the recent rodent invasion.
OH. she didn't. Not really. Some trash taxes were levied bit the landlords and the rats didn't pay those.
She seems to have a history on imposing solutions on the easiest targets. Those five year old's don't vote, their parents will have a hard tome getting organized to fight it, and the overcrowding problem will APPEAR to be solved when possibly MASSES of parents REFUSE to send their kids on the bus since kindergarten is not MANDATORY.
OF COURSE.....
that could mean scores of first graders woefully unprepared which will translate to lower MCAS scores down the road and we all know how the world revolves around those.
Why are we spending $270,000 busing babies when we have kids more than 5 X'S grades ahead who could walk someplace for FREE!
DON'T WORRY THOUGH OL'JFK HAS THE ANSWER -
JUST FOR NOW
Maybe we should start calling her JFN!
Friday, June 14, 2013
PENSION TENSION
I hear the the retiring principal
was treated out of hand
at that little school
they call CALLAHAN..
A man much admired,
on the verge of being fired.
Now the parents will have their say,
in the end the super will pay.
was treated out of hand
at that little school
they call CALLAHAN..
A man much admired,
on the verge of being fired.
Now the parents will have their say,
in the end the super will pay.
INGALLS MESMERIZE CROWD
Fans of tonight's NAVIGATOR game were treated to the SWEET sounds of the INGALLS SCHOOL chorus. In the bottom of the 7th we got to hear them.sing GOD BLESS AMERICA and TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME. They returned in the 8th to sing an acopella version of SWEET CAROLINE.
OUT-DATED
Somebody please help me out here. I thought I remembered them setting a meeting date for the BOND vote for JUNE 30th . I was there but who knows? Somebody must.
All of this letter writing has got me confused.
All of this letter writing has got me confused.
BAGS, HOLDINGS, AND A TANK
We learned last night that we DON'T even have access to all of the land necessary yet for the NEW MARSHALL. Yeah the big COMMERCIAL plot has been taken by IMMINENT DOMAIN. Papers have been signed, MONEY has changed hands (and we've been left holding the tank)......
HOWEVER......
there are two residences out there that well we don't got yet. I'm sure we will by the BOND vote. I'm sure they will.
THE IMPORTANT THING IS SOMEBODY GOT PAID!
HOWEVER......
there are two residences out there that well we don't got yet. I'm sure we will by the BOND vote. I'm sure they will.
THE IMPORTANT THING IS SOMEBODY GOT PAID!
THE CALVARY COMES FROM CALLAHAN
This sounds like the title to an old JOHN WAYNE movie or some spaghetti western. By using those reference you know that I am not just a poor, disabled poet - I'm old too.
Here I was, the meeting room was semi-packed. Of course I had no trouble getting my customary seat though. SMILE FOR THE CAMERA!
Coming over the ridge from yonder there, waving rolled up budget sheets were at least half a dozen angry mamas making up a posse that meant business. I believe if LPS knows what''s good for them they'll circle the wagons or at least put the tables up front in an oval.
At OPEN-MIKE they covered issues from class size to SPED LAW. One mama was packin a copy of some SPED LAW book. I was a waitin for her to take DR. Latham out in the hall for a legal duel. You know, REGULATIONS at thirty paces.
They also were a little upset about their retiring principal being done wrong by LATHAM. He was one of the ones who didn't get a cut from the stolen ( Okay misappropriated but I had a professor warn me once about mixed metaphors). They're angry and I think they're gonna show it!
Looks like my little band of OUTLAWS just got a few more recruits
MAMA, DON'T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE COWBOYS.....
BE ONE YOURSELF!
Here I was, the meeting room was semi-packed. Of course I had no trouble getting my customary seat though. SMILE FOR THE CAMERA!
Coming over the ridge from yonder there, waving rolled up budget sheets were at least half a dozen angry mamas making up a posse that meant business. I believe if LPS knows what''s good for them they'll circle the wagons or at least put the tables up front in an oval.
At OPEN-MIKE they covered issues from class size to SPED LAW. One mama was packin a copy of some SPED LAW book. I was a waitin for her to take DR. Latham out in the hall for a legal duel. You know, REGULATIONS at thirty paces.
They also were a little upset about their retiring principal being done wrong by LATHAM. He was one of the ones who didn't get a cut from the stolen ( Okay misappropriated but I had a professor warn me once about mixed metaphors). They're angry and I think they're gonna show it!
Looks like my little band of OUTLAWS just got a few more recruits
MAMA, DON'T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE COWBOYS.....
BE ONE YOURSELF!
Thursday, June 13, 2013
LPS IN THE TANK FOR MARSHALL
I've seen it written that this NEW Marshall(with a WOTRING WING) won't be another CLASSICAL Comforting words....
BUT.....
not ALL words are true, Take for example the disclosure tonight that the newly acquired property surprisingly came with 25,000 gallons pf some liquid but I guess they weren't ready to tell us just what it is just yet.
Herr Donovan (don't mind me, just practicing a little freshman German, you don;t use it you lose it you know) appeared to me that we were surprised it was there. I guess maybe they had placed a rug over that spot..
Don't worry, it;s probably not leaking whatever it is, No ut looks like all 25.000 gallons are there. That must have been some rug huh.
I mean the disposal cost is sort of reasonable. They are guesstimating about $120,000. That amount probably varies depending on what the liquid actually is, You could get a few books for that.
BUT.....
not ALL words are true, Take for example the disclosure tonight that the newly acquired property surprisingly came with 25,000 gallons pf some liquid but I guess they weren't ready to tell us just what it is just yet.
Herr Donovan (don't mind me, just practicing a little freshman German, you don;t use it you lose it you know) appeared to me that we were surprised it was there. I guess maybe they had placed a rug over that spot..
Don't worry, it;s probably not leaking whatever it is, No ut looks like all 25.000 gallons are there. That must have been some rug huh.
I mean the disposal cost is sort of reasonable. They are guesstimating about $120,000. That amount probably varies depending on what the liquid actually is, You could get a few books for that.
DOLLAR DAZE III - SHORT DOLLARS
There is going to be an EXECUTIVE SESSION tonight where they are supposed to suggest bargaining strategies in regards to principals raises. a non-union contract issue.Since they probably won't save me a seat, I thought it best I offer up my opinion here.
THEY CAN'T HAVE ONE!
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for principals being well paid. They have direct contact with our kids and their office is in the same building as where our kids are....
BUT.....
didn't a bunch of princiPALS get raises last year from some CIRCUIT BREAKER SPOILS? Oh that's right they weren't exactly raises, they were structural elevations. I believe our superintendent's was about 25K. I believe all of this activity has led or contributed to some sort of renegotiation with the TEACHER;S UNION (that probably also has to do with increased demands imposed on them).
THEY CAN'T HAVE ONE!
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for principals being well paid. They have direct contact with our kids and their office is in the same building as where our kids are....
BUT.....
didn't a bunch of princiPALS get raises last year from some CIRCUIT BREAKER SPOILS? Oh that's right they weren't exactly raises, they were structural elevations. I believe our superintendent's was about 25K. I believe all of this activity has led or contributed to some sort of renegotiation with the TEACHER;S UNION (that probably also has to do with increased demands imposed on them).
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