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Posted on 05/26/2009 8:47:11 PM PDT by NoobRep
The uses for the Title I stimulus money outlined to the school board Tuesday include:
* $214,300 to hire a coordinator and half-time bookkeeper to help administer Title I programs started with stimulus money.
* $642,675 for professional development programs, including Quantum Learning, which applies brain-based research to student learning, and a program to help teachers promote social and emotional growth.
* $450,000 to hire three social workers to join the 14 the district now employs.
* $200,000 to contract with mental health agencies to work with students with mental health issues.
* $1.05 million to hire math coaches, kindergarten literacy coaches and four instructional technology coaches for teachers.
* $117,000 to update computers in Title I schools.
* $250,000 to update nonfiction books in Title I schools, where the average copyright date is 1992.
* $762,823 the federal government requires be set aside for schools to increase parental involvement, to contract with agencies that work with children placed outside the home, to match federal homeless funds and for services to private schools.
(Excerpt) Read more at journalstar.com ...
The American people have been raped and pillaged. This is just disgusting.
Read this carefully. Do you know any half-time bookkeepers who make $214,300 a year?
Is it....because....of the name.............wait......’Lincoln’?
I imagine the administrator will make $200K and the bookeeper a mere $15K. I dunno maybe they are spreading this out over the course of years. In any case, this is not stimulus. Its wasteful spending and throwing money into a black hole.
Oh gawd, let me wake up from this nightmare.
Thanks for that link!
Indeed it 'tis and as time goes on we'll all be inundated with what's happening from around the Republic. Mostly ALL pure BS because the "reason(s)" that'll be offered are as I write being *engineered* to allow for as much graft as humanly possible.
Hey, Braveman?
Did you happen to hear the Milwaukee Public School system appropriated $500,000 for the purpose of finding a new superintendent to replace Andy??
Belling said, "And THIS is why WI's a tax hell." and he's absolutely positively correct on that account.
Just wait'll stories start surfacing concerning how MPS is spending their portion of the booty zerO sent. :o)
I’m trying desperately to convince my friend to start posting under the psydonym MPSMole. The tales he tells me daily are rife with this sort of waste & cronyism. He just signed a contract with a publisher worth over 2 million for science textbooks throughout the MPS.
I *think* I met this guy, didn't I?
What's he have to fear?
This place affords all the anonymity one could ask.
If one desires privacy, they got privacy.
"He just signed a contract with a publisher worth over 2 million for science textbooks throughout the MPS."
A buyer, huh.
Can you even imagine the "science" contained within the covers of these coming books?
Oy vey.
My pal --the one who stayed with us this past weekend-- teaches at one of the special High Schools, a "Charter School"? It's governed by the MPS system, but not a part of MPS. He gets the *gifted* from among all the MPS schools. Believe me my friend that designation ain't sayin' much, a'tall.
According to him we've nothing to worry about; because, few if any of the spawn read, anyway.
Nevermind doing assignments, HA!!
And there's nothing anyone can, or will do about the situation, either.
Only one thing, and it's reactive: move out of Milwaukee County.
And even that's not a cure all in the scheme of things.
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