http://www.itemlive.com/news/city-and-state-near-net-result/
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the article from January about the net school spending issue. It does not
give specifics of any agreement, nor does it state it's a done deal. The
article also mentions the Mayor's plea that she believes Lynn is at an unfair
disadvantage when it comes to meeting net school spending requirements.
She always makes it a point to say things like, "Lynn and other
cities" face this same issue and this may be true. Perhaps Lynn and
some other cities do face the challenges the Mayor mentioned and these may
cause a burden for the city. I don't know what other cities the Mayor is
referring too, but Lynn appears to be the only city facing such a financial
crisis and to my knowledge, is the only city forced to work out an arrangement
with the state to resolve the crisis. The DESE has reported the FY15 net
school spending compliance reports for 312 of 322 districts in the state and
none of them failed to meet at least 95% of their net school spending
requirement. In fact, 95% of the districts reported exceeded their net
school spending requirement. Lynn, as we know, is one of the districts
not reported yet, but I believe Lynn was expected to only meet something like
92% of its FY15 requirement. Why is that?
If a resolution agreement was reached between the state and the city, why hasn't anyone explained, discussed or even mentioned the details during a school committee or city council meeting? I would think city and school leaders would be eager to inform the public and put the NSS issue to rest and move forward.
ReplyDeleteThat's why I keep demanding an accounting of the payment the council made to them. As usual I get no answers.
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