All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘school committee’
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When Taxes “Only” Go Up, but Property Values “Only” Go Down
After the Tiverton Budget Committee put forward its recommendation for a 0.5% increase in local taxes, which was significantly less than the Town Council and School Committee wanted, Town Council Member John Edwards the Fifth (son of state Representative John Edwards the Fourth) complained that …
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TTA Denounces Actions of School Officials
On Friday afternoon, a Facebook page known to be allied with members of the Tiverton School Committee reported that the committee had unanimously voted to sue the town on behalf of the elector petition that committee chairman Jerome Larkin and vice chair Sally Black submitted …
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School Department Builds Surplus, May Campaign for More
As I write this on Wednesday evening, the Tiverton School Committee has just announced a special meeting on Saturday morning to discuss the town budget and whether to put forward an alternative budget for the ballot at the May 20 financial town referendum. The prospect …
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How the School Department Turned Temporary Stimulus into a Permanent Surplus
Being busy in spring 2011, I didn’t pay much attention when the Tiverton schools’ business administrator explained that the state was requiring the district to “restate” $740,000 in state aid. He meant that the state had been giving the money as “restricted” aid but, going …
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School Enrollment Down, Budgets and Surpluses Up
Although some as-yet unturned rock might reveal the exception that proves the rule, it is safe to say that nobody in Tiverton wants the town’s schools to fail. The three-to-one vote to borrow $15 million to fix school roofs and HVAC systems shows the level …
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Discrimination Against Students Who Aren’t in the System
Thursday afternoon, January 26, representatives of various organizations and private schools will gather at the Rhode Island State House to support increased school choice for families in the Ocean State. Perhaps the greatest hurdle they will have to overcome is the pervasive sense that our …
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School Department’s False Blame of the FTR
They can never just present their requests without layering in some political spin, can they? There it is, on slide 6 of the school department’s budget presentation for the upcoming year — produced by Superintendent William Rearick and Director of Administration and Finance Douglas Fiore — …
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Avoiding Misunderstanding of Fliers and Reserves
Thank you to the Tiverton School Committee for seeing its way clear to implement full-day kindergarten in the coming school year. The intention of the 0.9% Budget was to control taxes while not affecting programs that are priorities for residents; that’s exactly what this outcome …
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Tiverton School Committee Approves Full-Day K for 2015-2016
In a unanimous vote, tonight, the Tiverton School Committee approved full-day kindergarten for the upcoming school year, beginning in September. That outcome represented a reversal of the committee’s vote, on May 26, not to implement the expanded program because the estimates on which the administration based …
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School Committee Meeting Moved to Thursday
Anybody who has been pacing the floor in anticipation of tonight’s School Committee meeting, at which the question of full-day kindergarten was planned for discussion and possible vote will have to wait. Five minutes to 5:00, the Secretary of State’s office posted an agenda for …
