Search Results for: Croydon School Budget

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Thoughts on Croydon – Residents Refusing to Accept Blame for Missing the Town Meeting Vote on School Budget

by Skip

Listen to what a Croydon resident says at about 1:19 seconds in:

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Croydon Cuts School Budget In Half, No One Notices

by Ian Underwood

At the annual meeting of the Croydon School District on Saturday, the district demanded a ransom of $1.7 million dollars, and the voters of the district responded by approving a budget of $800 thousand dollars.

Night Cap: Breaking News – Hooksett NH ‘Voters’ Cut $750K from the School Budget at Town Meeting …[Update]

by Steve MacDonald

Here’s a story that hasn’t even broken in the press yet. At Saturday’s Town Meeting in Hooksett, New Hampshire, someone advanced a motion to cut 750,00.00 dollars from the school budget, and it passed! Wait, there’s more.

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Questions That Didn’t Get Asked at Meet the Candidates Day in Croydon

by Ian Underwood

At Meet the Candidates Day in Croydon, one resident kept asking each candidate: Yes, or No, do you support the Free State movement? Do you support public education? Do you support the United States Constitution?

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Croydon Superintendent: $1 Million per Student Not Enough to Teach Kids to Read

by Ian Underwood

In an earlier piece on charter schools,  I suggested that we need to start asking school districts:  How much is enough? That is, if we want to get 100% of our educable students to proficiency in reading and math, how much would it cost? 

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Laconia School District: And Back We Go to the Fustercluck That Superintendent Steve Tucker and School Board Chair Aaron Hayward Have Created

by Skip

You know how I can tell?  The Laconia School District is doing what School Boards and Administrations have been doing all over the State – and the nation – change the Narrative and change the focus!  That is, making it personal to their clients – Parents. Instead of concentrating on student achievement, right now it … Read more

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Shall-Issue School Districts

by Ian Underwood

In Croydon, where the school district has switched from a ransom model to a budget model, parents are suddenly asking lots of questions about the lower-cost alternatives for providing the opportunity for an adequate education that are being explored by the school board — mainly micro-schools run by companies like Prenda and Kai.

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A School Hijacking, Amanda Leslie of Croydon? Hardly, and Stop Making Kids Your Political Pawns

by Skip

A headline in the UL yesterday read, “Amanda Leslie: Undo the hijacking of Croydon’s schools.” My retort is that the “hijacking” was done, not by those who showed up, but by those that didn’t bother to show up.

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Heartbroken in Croydon

by Ian Underwood

At most of the school board meetings that have followed the recent right-sizing of Croydon’s school budget, at least one parent has expressed a thought that simply breaks my heart:

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Croydon Leads the Way Again

by Ian Underwood

House Bill 1393, which passed the House recently, seeks to make it possible for voters in school districts to do, as a matter of policy, what Croydon was recently able to do on a one-time basis:  Tell the school district what they can afford, rather than wait to be told how much will be demanded … Read more

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Croydon School Board Meeting – How a Work Meeting Turned into a Rantfest

by Skip

I have never seen anything like this and I’m probably never going to see this again. Thumbnail: At this past Saturday’s Town Meeting, the townfolk voted to HALF the School District Budget from $1.7 million to $800,000.  Let that set in.

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Budget or Ransom?

by Ian Underwood

I printed these up to hand out at our annual district meeting tomorrow.  I thought I’d post it here in case anyone else wants to try something similar in another district.

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On Becoming a More Effective School Board Member

by Skip

Join us for these invaluable webinars, starting next year, to enhance your effectiveness as a school board representative or as a parent advocate.

Introduction to the School District Governance Association

by Jody Underwood

Do you feel in the dark about what your responsibilities are as a school board or budget committee member?  We can help.

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Letter to InDepthNH

by Ian Underwood

InDepthNH just ran a hit piece by Garry Rayno on the Free State Project (FSP). As with the New York Times, I doubt that InDepthNH will run my response, but I thought I’d include it here, as I did with my response to the Times’s hit piece by Dan Barry.

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Santayana Warned Us About Volinsky

by Jody Underwood

A few sentences into his recent piece in InDepthNH (and other places), Andru Volinsky demonstrates that he has no idea how the statewide education tax actually works, let alone how it should work.   First, no one gets excused from paying anything. Every district collects the full SWEPT tax, spends it on adequacy, and applies … Read more

Night Cap: Mom, They Banned My Book!

by Ian Underwood

I’m proud to be a new member of a distinguished club:  Authors from Indiana who have had a book banned by a public library.  Other members include Theodore Dreiser, Kurt Vonnegut, and Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.

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Shoutout to Grokster Ian Underwood – a Book Report on Ian’s Books

by Skip

I have known Cindy Bennet for a while now, and while we may not always be on the same paragraph on things, I admire her as she’s SMAHT, is aware of what’s going on in a whole range of issues, is thoughtful and great to talk to. She also has a YouTube channel here.

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‘Anti’ Labels Are Lazy Journalism

by Ian Underwood

A lot of journalists these days have a vocabulary problem. In particular, they think that if someone wants to repair or reform an institution, he is anti-[that institution].

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Required Reading – The Fast and Easy Way to “Level Up” Your Understanding …

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For the sake of honesty and full disclosure, I should first point out my lack of qualifications to fancy myself a book critic, but when I have something to say that’s worth shouting from the rooftops, why hold back?