Comment history for Education_Voter

Education_Voter  (anonymous) says...

I also wrote a letter to the Editor about this. While listening to the Bishop's overwrought language, I realized that most of us women in the seats were being hypocrites, as we already have access to contraception through our secular employers.
I left.
Permanently.
There are other Christian churches that do not promote one political party or even talk much about politics.
Two of them are within yards of my former parish.
I hope my letter gets published.

Education_Voter  (anonymous) says...

Well Woody,
Usury, greed, and disregard of the poor are also covered in the same Book.
I'm not impressed that Romney chose to hide money in Grand Cayman.
Tell you what: if he took some of his immense campaign treasure-chest and spent it to upgrade part of this nation's aging infrastructure and failing oil pipelines, he could put his name on the work instead of a negative ad AND I WOULD VOTE FOR HIM.
But that won't happen, and my vote will go elsewhere.

Education_Voter  (anonymous) says...

Curious about taxes, and thinking about Trumbull County. Are there townships in Trumbull County with comparable population and business? I know that Warren, Niles, etc. are populated, but they are cities and thus can collect taxes for services without having to rely solely on property taxes.

How about comparing Liberty's taxes with comparable townships in Mahoning County? How about with Austintown, Canfield, etc.?

Education_Voter  (anonymous) says...

Politico
The names I recognize from the field of education are administrators, not teachers, not union members, not sympathizers with unions.
Secondly, c'mon. You say "...I would never approve a union contract that requires arbitration." No kidd'n. The participants in contract negotiations go over the language repeatedly to try to make it as clear as possible. These arbitration cases occur when their attempts are not successful, or when a Board of Education decides to ignore their own agreement.

Education_Voter  (anonymous) says...

Sorry about my post above, Liberty's enrollment is 1,400. I accidently added a zero. However, as you see, open enrollment students are still 1 in 14.

Education_Voter  (anonymous) says...

And FYI, this is from a Tribune Chronicle article from Oct. 30:
http://www.tribtoday.com/page/content...
Oct. 30th Tribune Review:
"Nonresidential students, the majority of whom live in Youngstown, who were attending Liberty at the time, will be permitted to continue doing so, Liberty treasurer James Wilson said. However, the district is no longer accepting new open enrollment students.
Liberty School Board of Education president Diana M. DeVito said although her vote reflected what residents wanted and made clear through the results of a random, districtwide survey, she doesn't believe that the district should abandon open enrollment altogether.
"There's this perception that any behavior problems we have are because of nonresidential students," she said. "But we also did an internal survey that proved that was not the case at all, and that most of our behavioral problems did not come from open enrollment students, but from residential students."

Education_Voter  (anonymous) says...

To FYI 41:
Every district must file a form called a "Five Year Forecast" which you can google.
Here's Liberty's:
ftp://ftp.ode.state.oh.us/geodoc/5-yrForecast/2011%20OCT%20Assumptions%20-%20FY12/Liberty-050195.pdf
On page 6, you will see that their state foundation money is about $6,000. That is what Youngstown City Schools must pay for each open enrollment student in tuition.
On page 8, you will see in district revenues that Liberty gets $600,000. in open enrollment money. That means there are about 100 open enrollment students.
Liberty enrollment usually runs at 14,000 plus students.

Education_Voter  (anonymous) says...

The district was not in Academic Watch, one elementary school was. For a short time. Because they accepted open enrollment students -- another state policy.

However to blame today's problems on open enrollment students is not accurate. After that Liberty moved to a stricter open enrollment policy, in which paticipating students must register in K or 1st grade. Others are denied. (And other Trumbull County districts opened enrollment, drawing Youngstown students away from Liberty -- Hubbard, Niles, etc.)

Liberty, refusing to face the changing demographics of the township is not going to help.

Education_Voter  (anonymous) says...

"Conversion Schools" and "Community Schools" are the Ohio Dept. of Education euphemisms for "charter schools." These schools were, in fact, charter schools.
School districts have just as much right to sponsor a charter school as the Ursuline nuns or the guy who runs a gas station down the street.

The comments so far have chosen to ignore the part that state policy played in this fiasco. Because E.J. Blott had temporary low scores on an elementary standardized test, the state forced Liberty residents to pay tuition to St. Rose, Ursuline, and other private schools for students ENTIRE remaining k-12 education. (Despite the fact that there was nothing wrong with the scores in the middle or high school.) As these students advanced, the costs became greater as they entered high school.
Then in defense, Liberty tried this charter school nonsense, in which the state would supply them with additional funds as they do other charter schools.
The state had a lot of nerve to then come in and make fiscal accusations against this district.

Education_Voter  (anonymous) says...

True, anothermike.
Especially in restaurants, in real life an all consuming job. (no pun intended)