This year LPS saw about a 7.5 million dollar increase in the budget - YEA!
UNTIL....
we look a litlle closer and realize that this MATH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE stuff translateinto a million dollar reduction in non-salary expenditures and eight million dollar increase in SALARIES.
CAN YOU GUESS WHAT CATEGORY TEXTBOOKS FALL INTO?
The Lynn Public School District has under-performing and failing schools and is considered a failing school district by the state of Massachusetts. The district does not have enough textbooks and supplies, it does not have enough teachers, it does not have enough classrooms, it is facing significant overcrowding in the schools, it has extremely old school buildings in extremely poor condition that continue to deteriorate, it has schools that lack working bathroom facilities for the kids.....Yet it continues to hire administrators with 6 figure incomes, give out raises to principals already making a 6 figure income, pays the SECRETARY for the school committee over $90,000 per year, and has not yet negotiated the superintendent's contract renewal because she (allegedly) wants more than the $184,000 she made last year. And this my friends is why Lynn Public Schools is and will remain one of the lowest performing school districts in the entire state of Massachusetts!!
ReplyDeleteCanyou imagine the SIZE of the raise thee size Good Doctor must want if she gave some of her favorite princiPALS around a TWENTY DOLLAR RAISE?
DeleteAll I know is I better NOT ever get another notice from any teacher informing me that my child needs specific required supplies and that I must purchase them or I will be filing that formal complaint suggested by the DESE against LPS for violating MGL Chapter 71 Section 48 which states, "The principal at each school, subject to the direction of the superintendent, shall, at the expense of the school district, purchase textbooks and other school supplies, and consistent with the district policy, shall loan them to the pupils attending such school free of charge." Since LPS seems to have all this extra money to spare that they can spend thousands or even millions on administrative raises and positions, they sure better be able to provide every single required supply my child (and every child for that matter) needs for each and every class!!
DeleteSorry I meant $20,000 raise
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