District 6 wants more money
Below average graduation rates. Below average CSAP scores. Above average pay for teachers. And Greeley Evans District 6 school board wants a mill levy override to raise an additional $16 million in taxpayer dollars. They are supported by a citizens committee and the Greeley Tribune.
Neither group demands to see where or how the school district is spending the money it has right now. If Greeley Evans District 6 wants more cash, then it should have the common decency to show taxpayers/stakeholders how their money is spent.
That won’t happen. In fact, District 6 school board member Bob Stack was part of the massive K-12 education lobby that testified against SB 57 Public School Financial Transparency Act.
Colorado Spending Transparency (COST), another blog to which I contribute, has the perfect motto for this campaign: No taxation without information!
April 25th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
[...] Greeley Evans School District 6, which suffered an electoral shellacking last November when it asked voters for an enormous mill levy override, acquiesced and gave $17,856 to the cause of demanding more from taxpayers. [...]
April 26th, 2010 at 9:44 am
[...] Greeley Evans School District 6, which suffered an electoral shellacking last November when it asked voters for an enormous mill levy override, acquiesced and gave $17,856 to the cause of demanding more from taxpayers. [...]
May 2nd, 2010 at 7:52 pm
Dear Amy,
I have a son who has been a special ed student (IEP) and since middle school (he is now in high school) he has not received the education that he needs. He has no credits (he is in the 10th grade) towards graduation. When he attended Maplewood both my husband and I were always at the school discussing education needs. We even asked them to hold him back. I did take him out of public school to home school for over a year.
He is 17 years old now. He has not been the perfect student but he has not received the education he should have. Please help me. What can I do? We have also spent time with him at the high school level. The class room activity is very sad in most cases. He has gone all this time in school with not good results.