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The Anatomy Of A Sham

Right. I'm going to vote to increase my taxes - in the neighborhood of $1,000 - for this double talk.

 

I'm providing the link to the BOE's April, 2012 "Plan C Fact Sheet".

It's all about how Plan C will improve education, and how they set out to do it. For $206 MILLION:

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"Purpose of the Facilities Master Plan

"In the spring of 2010, a Citizens Committee, comprised of a wide cross section of community members, parents, teachers, and other school staff, convened to carefully study the District’s facilities. After a year of work, they reached the following conclusions:"

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Later in 2012, we got nearly the exact same group of individuals, this time named the Lay Facility Committee. And they come up with Plan 2B.

Which intentionally avoids addressing a single "educational issue".

And instead, as I heard last night, the LFC focused on remediating the $40 MILLION (as of 2007) mainteneance backlog, making entrances and hallways safer, increasing public meeting spaces, oh, yeah, and closing a bunch of schools.

With not even an elementary problem statement to support why they still need $206 MILLION.

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