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On the article 'Nobody's Happy' As Easton Passes School Budget
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On the article 'Nobody's Happy' As Easton Passes School Budget
Rasterone
8:52 am on Friday, May 17, 2013
ReplyI would trust the state LESS than any local Board as to allocation of funds: HB76 invites absolute disaster in terms of diversion of funds to districts that have historically bungled just about everything and now expect everyone else to bail them out ( And keep paying inflated administrative salaries in troubled districts.) . And absent an absolute flat sales tax or VAT on everything we'll have the convoluted social and politically engineered sales tax like the current one.
Not smart to go from bad to worse? -
On the article 'Nobody's Happy' As Easton Passes School Budget
Rasterone
4:06 pm on Thursday, May 16, 2013
Replyactually some of the new very expensive per square foot residential units put up by smart investors via the EHA pay darn little while the investors still all the way to the bank..based on formulas cira 1950's and unwisely reaffirmed by EASB not so long ago....if investors get a break then homeowners have the honor to pick up more of the burden...think about it!
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On the article 'Nobody's Happy' As Easton Passes School Budget
Rasterone
8:51 am on Wednesday, May 15, 2013
ReplyThe fact that an action to hire a replacement special education administrator for $92,000 even got on the agenda is scary reminder that its business as usual at the administrative level when we need to be sorting out how to do more with less.
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On the article Former Bangor Superintendent Could Lead Easton
Rasterone
2:08 pm on Tuesday, May 14, 2013
ReplyWell at least he brings experience in dealing with emergency certificated teachers
Valerie A Savage V Bangor Area School District? . -
On the article Pa. Pension Debt Totals $9,000 Per Household, Corbett Says
Rasterone
3:54 pm on Monday, May 13, 2013
ReplyThe pension system is not what it wrong..it's the leadership which is wrong:
State gave itself a funding holiday now doesn't want to pony up.
Far too many tax breaks for investors and land lords
Far too many social burdens visited upon schools like IEPs , 504s, preoccupation that everyone must graduate, NCLB, Common Core, you name it, we stick it to schools.
We reward districts that do poorly with more state aid so they can overpay thier staff.
State underwrites charter schools pension plan costs,
Some well paid folks do manage to spike the pension plan, but this abuse is probably limited to superintendants. -
On the article Braden Airpark Loses Moyer Aviation
Rasterone
3:45 pm on Saturday, May 11, 2013
ReplyThe airport sends no children to EASD but the EHA sure does..why not start with EHA first if you are concerned about the price of keeping things.
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On the article $1.4 Million For Easton School Security?
Rasterone
8:27 am on Friday, May 10, 2013
ReplyAt a time when EASD is addressing serious cuts in teaching staff and ways to cut programs w/o cutting programs it is absolutely absurd to expect EASD to pick up added security duties of a complex costly nature so as to provide security for others entities and children who may or may not be under EASD's duty of care as an extension of the loco parentis doctrine that says EASD is accountable until the child is returned to the parent/guardian . EASD has enough trouble sorting out who is the parent or guardian and where the parent lives and the status of who else who might be living with the parent. Heaven help EASD security sort out the status of "parent" who walks into the facility during day care time and picks up a child from a day care room. From a liability for children management standpoint , recently departed principal Steinberg may have been among the smartest administrators! She insisted the children leave the premises at end of day to bus or to the return to parental custody before being allowed back to use playground or whatever. And once day care was removed from March, children and "parents" were not allowed back on premises in the morning until the doors opened for school itself .
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On the article $1.4 Million For Easton School Security?
Rasterone
8:56 pm on Thursday, May 9, 2013
Replyit's a state rule ..and the one smart way to avoid problems is to NOT host day care operators on school property!
no exception, a parent needs to have access w/o notice to day care...so do it elsewhere...the school has enough problems to do one thing well..it is guaranteed to get into problems trying to do more than that. -
On the article $1.4 Million For Easton School Security?
Rasterone
9:25 pm on Wednesday, May 8, 2013
ReplyLike I wrote--when day care is in operation, the parents must have free access to the facility without notice ...so much for tight security --now go read the regs about the playground must be secure and thus effectively cannot be used by other members of the community if day care is using the playground.
From PA DPW
§ 3270.23. Parent access and participation.
A parent of a child in care shall be permitted free access, WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE, throughout the center whenever children are in care, unless a court of competent jurisdiction has limited the parental right of access to the child and a copy of the order is on file at the facility. Opportunity shall be provided for parents to participate in the facility’s program. The operator shall maintain a yearly file which documents general announcements to promote parent participation. The file shall be updated annually.
At a time when the Board policy and the Superintendent's contract were crystal clear as to how to deal with facilities users that failed to pay as per policy, the CSA and other salaried leaders failed to measure up and the echoes of that leadership weakness still echo in the building. Expensive ramifications to provide cheap rental space for outside businesses to unfairly compete with business and individuals that do not have access to similar cheap space from taxpayers
Rasterone
3:31 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
If replacing one special ed administrator with another at a mere $92,000 yr + 25 payable days vacation, plus 14/15 holidays, plus 12 bankable sick days is any measure of how to tighten a belt--boy are we in for money trouble, again?