Well please excuse my ignorance for a minute. Besides just being a countrified, poor disabled poet. I've been away from the game a while. There were of course the obligatory computer problems, I had those before and it NEVER stopped me for a fraction of the hiatus I've had.Yeah there were other things.
You could even call them good things if by good you meant good at being bad. Anyhow I happened to catch parts of a couple school committee meetings being rerun on TV and I got this knawing at my stomach to comment. At least I think that's what it was and not my cooking.
At the end of the last LSC meeting in January, I swore I heard MAYOR KENNEDY go through the rationale for moving the custodians under the direct control of the LSC. Because since the paychecks of the3se maintenance employee's paychecks didn't originate from LPS Lynn was not allowed to count their health insurance and benefits toward NET SCHOOL SPENDING even though 100% of their time was spent at the schools. Sounds like a reasonable argument. The cost could add about a million dollars to NSS. A sweet little deduction. I've always said that MAYOR was smart.
Although I did remember having contact with various custodians and hearing their stories of being on the move all the time. In fact I was in city hall turning in nomination papers a few years back. (Remember me LOSING) when I chatted with a school custodian who had been called over to work in the auditorium.
But also I watched this past Thursday's LSC and lo and behold there were a couple of custodians giving testimony that seemed to contradict JUDY'S claims. Now before recent developments I might have accused her of lying, you know, fabricating. Luckily have learned recently of the existence of alternative ffacts and I guess she is just in possession of some of them.
Saturday, February 18, 2017
CUSTODIAL CUSTODY
Now our Mayor may be a lady
But her accounting is a might shady.
School custodians held hostage
Want released from there bondage.
Still the ransom to be paid
Involves falling for a trap that's been laid.
For a price surely to rise
Under a plan they did devise.
But her accounting is a might shady.
School custodians held hostage
Want released from there bondage.
Still the ransom to be paid
Involves falling for a trap that's been laid.
For a price surely to rise
Under a plan they did devise.
THE POT, THE KETTLE, AND THE COMEDY OF COLORS
Funny because the Net School Spending problem was exacerbated due to the Mayor's and the CFO's own "FUZZY MATH"
CFO accuses school committee of ‘fuzzy math’
THE STORM IS COMING, TAXES ARE RISING
The schools are overcrowded on that we can all agree. The solution to the problem is where there is a strong, passionate divergence of thought.
Probably the most vocal opposition has to do with location, Regardless of where the proposed school was put somebody would be very unhappy and could make a logical, credible argument against placement there. The need to save space for future burials is an interesting one because given the city's financial state, the schools system's record of questionable spending, and the chaos the federal education system is in, we may need the space to bury public education.
I have long advocated the view that we can't build our way out of our mess.
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Probably the most vocal opposition has to do with location, Regardless of where the proposed school was put somebody would be very unhappy and could make a logical, credible argument against placement there. The need to save space for future burials is an interesting one because given the city's financial state, the schools system's record of questionable spending, and the chaos the federal education system is in, we may need the space to bury public education.
I have long advocated the view that we can't build our way out of our mess.
Brian LaPierre added 3 new photos — attending Fundraiser in Support of 2 Schools for Lynn at Knights of Pythias.
Packed house tonight of teachers, paras, parents, students and community organizing to win on March 14th!
SPECIAL ED CRISIS
Preventing
people from learning how to get funding for their children is the same
thing as obstructing people from getting funding for your child.
Two
congressional lawmakers are asking the Trump administration to restore a
missing U.S. government website that helps families navigate a complex
federal law on students with disabilities
usatoday.com
Friday, February 17, 2017
Thursday, February 16, 2017
TWO SIDES FOR TWO SCHOOLS
Donald Castle to Protect Our Reservoir, Preserve Pine Grove
HERE YA GO FOLKS.... One of the ballot questions we shall vote on. Key words: "EXEMPT FROM PROP 2 1/2". You be the judge.
BALLOT QUESTION # 2
Shall the City of Lynn be allowed to exempt from the proposition two and one half, so called, the amounts required to pay for the bond issued in order to pay a two-school new construction building program for a replacement Pickering Middle School and a new West Lynn Middle School. The Pickering Middle School is to be located on ci...
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BALLOT QUESTION # 2
Shall the City of Lynn be allowed to exempt from the proposition two and one half, so called, the amounts required to pay for the bond issued in order to pay a two-school new construction building program for a replacement Pickering Middle School and a new West Lynn Middle School. The Pickering Middle School is to be located on ci...
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TOO LATE FOR TWO SCHOOLS
Given the chaotic state the National Department of Education, I think voters for the upcoming bond issue need to ask themselves if they are prepared to further subsidize public education? The climate nationally now has shifted away from support and the opening up to other leaks of resources.
PERSIST TO RESIST
AN
EASY ACTION: If you or your family don't have a library card, GET ONE.
DeVos will fight hard against public education. Public libraries could
be next. Local politicians look at the # of the population vs the # of
library cardholders. If the % of cardholders to population isn't high,
then they think, "Why are our people being taxed for this service?"
Getting a library card is an act of support in ways bigger than you
imagined. #supportlibraries
Saturday, November 12, 2016
Friday, November 11, 2016
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
I GUESS NOW YOU HEAR
News
Was almost ready to the WATCH say good-bye
Off to the sunset I did try.
But a BOMBSHELL the DESE did drop
So my sudden retirement I did stop!
Now I am not so fast to go
In order I might say, "I told you so".
LYNN'S MONEY MISERIES
Looks like LESS MONEY TO SHOW
Might soon become the rule
Cause the Mayor has been estimating low
Just to play you all for a fool.
So into receivership we go
Thanks to JUDY our fiscal tool.
Plenty of city raises to show
But almost doubling her own salary was the crown jewel.
From here where will we go?
The answer to that question
Certainly won't be COOL!
NOW ARE YOU READY TO LISTEN?
By THOMAS GRILLO LYNN — The state Department of Education is threatening…
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