Part of the stimulus package proposed by President Obama and passed by the Congress includes direct aid to local school districts. The aid amount directed to Dartmouth's school department can be viewed at this link.
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The amount is $250,870, a welcome addition in these tough economic times.
A caveat regarding these funds is that they are probably one time revenue. There is no assurance or expectation that the aid will continue in future years. As such, I think that the funds should be used for capital spending, not recurring expense such as salaries.
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Friday, March 6, 2009
Dartmouth schools to receive federal stimulus funds
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It all depends on the expenditure language as to what it can be used for.
I am not sure that the uses allowed have even been determined yet. Here is a link to the US Department of Education website with more information.
Dartmouth Police will also receive $57,404 as part of the Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant Program under President Barack Obama’s Recovery Act 2009.
Lets hope the money is put to best use, what about the math textbooks and the rest of the unfunded outdated textbooks, then we can tackle technology? If this goes to raises that would be wrong, or more administration. It needs to go to classroom materials, SC has let students down in this area. Parents had to have an outcry over reading textbooks to get them. This should not go to building maintenance or handicapped accessibility or lockers, TEXT AND TECH.
Agree, solve the textbook problem for a few years. The computers are behind too.
Books and computers please, and fast!
Look at these numbers will caution. They were not generated by the state, nor do they include all of the districts likely to benefit.
not into handicapped accessibility? when you have entire schools where a child in a wheelchair cant get a drink of water or use the bathroom! cant get out the door in a firedrill ! cant access the second floor of their school! cant access outdoor facilities at the middle school(track,ball fields)! dont have a locker they can use! cant even get on the stage at an elementary school! according to Phil Lenz and the town accessibility report he has on his website the list of things needed is staggering. certainly you cant be denying the disabled access to these things. a water fountain, a bathroom, etc... all the things we take for granted are inaccessible currently to the disabled so think twice before you callously ignore the needs of the disabled in Dartmouth.
thank goodness the sb does not make these decisions, nevermind anonymous 2:47.
Handicapped accessibility costs could be accessed through a long term bond with Capitol improvement money. It would cost millions to upgrade what you say is necessary. Make a request of CIP Committee through School Administration and School Committee. This is lenz's numer one priority so it must be in the works, the first phase. This can't be realized overnight and $200,000 wouldn't go far. Also, the schools said the locker improvements were a priority after Ms. Chamberlain's plea at Town Meeting.
So it seems like you people are against learning supplies?
learning supplies versus students who cant get in the door in the first place?
The lockers are a priority to everyone but the CIP committee from what ive heard.
Wish I knew specifically when, but a while ago, after the overrides for the schools failed, the S-T (I believe) stated that there was a concern over the conditions of the bathrooms, too.
I think that was maybe priority #4, after the pleadings for #1, overcrowded Quinn Elementary which quickly morphed into overcrowded Middle School, as well; #2, outdated/obsolete textbooks and technology; #3, lockers in need of repair; and then #4, poor condition of bathrooms.
Now comes #5, handicapped accessability.
(I thought that it was a federal law that all public buildings had to comply with the Disabilities Act by a certain year, or be fined? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. Maybe it doesn't apply to schools in the same way, if at all?)
Are we seeing a pattern here: just keep pushing at that override, folks; maybe ONE of these will hit a nerve with the public who will be willing to shell it all out "for the kids."
Someone said to me recently, EVERYONE uses the "it's for the kids" mantra to drum up money. Used to be for the starving children in China or orphans once, for those old enough to remember our mothers' command to eat all our vegetables, and the commercials, which depicted slum conditions with children playing around garbage. We are seeing a resurgence of these, or maybe they have never really left us.
My point is, WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BOOKS? If you can't get money for the books, are you all going to try to get money for something less important, in my mind, at least, than books?
Come on. I agree with 9:23. Why can't bond money be used for lockers, handicapped accessibility, and any other building improvements?
There was a loud and long outcry over school overcrowdingj, then one for books and computers. Seems like they have been forgotten. I would scream long and loud for textbooks and technology, but I would scream long and loudest for the administration to do something about the salaries they happily give each other, when it is the teachers WHO DO THE WORK and suffer the consequences of having to do it without the proper tools besides. And the children who suffer the most because they are at the mercy of teachers who don't have adequate teaching materials, and the teachers are at the mercy of the administration who HAVE to have over-generous salaries. Just my opinion, though.
For example,you don't give an individual who has yet to receive his/her degree and has yet to receive certification for the position of superintendent or assistant superintendent the money given ours if these qualifications have not even been met. What an opportunity for the School Committee to save money, and they failed us.
Why can't bond money be used for lockers, handicapped accessibility, and any other building improvements? Ask the CIP committee. They are convinced its better to replace boilers than lockers,etc... they placed a hold (according to the papers)on all those projects.
I'd go with boilers.
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