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Truth Seeker's avatar

Thanks Tom. I’ll check out the links you provided over lunch. I Appreciate the quick reply and am really grateful to see that you’ve found accounting for that $$.

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Tom Hayden's avatar

Every school district in America except the most judicious (there are a few in IL that used it purposefully) pissed this money away. It's really quite sad.

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Pablo's avatar

Now that you said that, cue one of the board members or their apologists saying "this is a national problem, not our board's!"

As if it was unknown that ESSER funds had an expiration date we could plan for.

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Tom Hayden's avatar

I know this is crazy but we should expect our school district to be one of the judicious ones, like literally everyone in this town has a masters degree. We should expect and demand better governance.

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Pablo's avatar

THIS!

I am so sick of people pointing to national averages, or distant school districts of similar enrollment numbers but quite possibly differently composed populations, land coverage, etc. and claiming being average or a little below average is what we should aim for.

I hope the aspiring candidates for the coming election aren't setting the bar at simply balancing the budget. What's on the back end of those measures that will actually lay the ground work for thriving vs. surviving?

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