    
fringe
Citizen
Username: Fringe
Post Number: 285
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, February 2, 2004 - 8:16 am: |     |
This Groundhog Day the BOE/Super H will unveil the proposed 2004-05 preliminary budget. Anyone care to predict its contents?
Here are my two and one on the Maplewood Democrat primary -
* Reduction of class size in Grades 1 and 2 to 15 students or less. That may be too expensive for even this board - so limit it to the Title I schools - if they've lost faith in the original Demonstration School concept, this will reinflate demand for Seth Boyden from the young West side liberal families.
* Elimination (again) of the elementary world language teachers - That's an easy one. They never made it to any of the various 2003-04 proposed budgets, but after Huemer's comments implying he'd vote for any education spending, it miraculously materialized as a last minute Separate Proposal at the final vote last March. They may be going, but their salaries will remain imbedded in all future budgets compounding at a rate greater than a savings account.
* The school budget and its treatment by the Board of School Estimate is already planned to be a central issue in the Maplewood Democrat primary. Who could challenge the wisdom of yet another experiment that makes such intuitive sense and be deserving of election to the Township Committee? We know what Huemer would do, what about Danny?
JTL
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