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Subject: School Budget 2012
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 09:16:30 -0400
From: maryepalermo@aol.com
http://www.cpsd.us/CPS_content/documents/CPS_FY2012-Book2.pdf
I noticed that Lowell and Cambridge already have approved budgets online for FY 2012.
Cambridge has $74,000 budgeted for City Sprouts - their program for a garden at every elementary school. Will Lynn have anything budgeted? Cambridge - a large metro city with a diverse population I am sure similar to Lynn in many ways - is showing class size typically no more than 20 children in a classroom! I know Cambridge has always had a very committed objective for good schools and quality education and their city is improving every year! I do believe the two go hand in hand.
I am looking online and I cannot find the projected budget for Lynn next year. Prior to June 20, I am hoping at the Council budget hearing where the line item for schools will be approved on June 20 that we have a chance to review some of the specifics before the hearing. Is the proposed budget online now?
I am hoping to see in the budget that the priority for the city is quality good schools. As far as I am concerned, city hall is secondary and personnel if needed should be cut other places throughout the city long before any cuts in the classroom!
I did give Steve Grossman my two cents last week when he sat next to me at the convention - he is telling me that the Marshall School building plans is going forward! Hopefully the plans for replacing other school buildings are not far behind. He is claiming quality education is a priority for him in all the gateway cities.
Please send me the link for the FY 2012 budgets so hopefully we are all prepared prior to June 20.
Thank you.
Mary Ellen Palermo
P.S. There are no email addresses online for the other members of the School Committee!
"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die." Ted Kennedy
@ Maryellen
ReplyDeleteYou cannot compare Cambridge to Lynn. There is a smarter base of people there due to the universities and closeness to Boston. Most of which do not send their children to school in Cambridge. The poor uneducated and their spawn ruined the schools as well. With all of the universities you do bring in a higher caliber of people in to "volunteer" and create a liberal academia population that celebrates the poor and so called under served population of the world. Higher property values and tax payers as well! Comparing the two cities looses your complete point. There are also a few really decent charter schools parents opt to send their children too.
Why not pick a few kids you can mentor and actually change the lives of that have potential. The rest of Lynn is a lost cause.
Anon 1150, you are sooo negative I pity you. Before you can spew your conceited venom it must fester inside your miserable soul. I'm truly sorry for you.
ReplyDeleteGee Stan.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_calling_the_kettle_black
Not only do you suck the teet of the taxpayer with your welfare/disability and food stamps I am sure you get. That isn't enough. You need to clog up yet more taxpayer $ with your BS claims filing discrimination claims.
Your able bodied get a damn job and contribute to society! Lots of handicapped people work and have self respect. Its the people like you that make them sick too, playing victim.
You had to cite Wikipedia to quote an idiom? What is wrong with you? Even kids educated in Lynn know you don’t use Wikipedia as a reference!
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