Re: school district budget cuts

["Sam M W Scripter" <MoscowSam@moscow.com>]

Thank you, Lois, for your incisive post to the list.

I agree with all you have written, and with emphasis on
reducing class size, e.g., "actual number of pupils"
in grade 1-3 classes.

Sam Scripter

-----Original Message-----
From: Lois Melina <lmelina@moscow.com>
To: letters@moscow.com <letters@moscow.com>
Cc: vision2020@moscow.com <vision2020@moscow.com>
Date: Sunday, May 02, 1999 1:35 PM
Subject: school district budget cuts


>Editor:
> As the Moscow School District board of trustees considers the 1999-2000
>budget, it needs to make cuts in such a way as to not contribute to the
>problem of declining enrollment that has led to the current budget crisis
> Enrollment is declining is Moscow schools in large part because students
>are being home-schooled or attending a growing number of private and
>charter schools. Parents select those alternatives to the public schools
>because they offer more individual attention, more academic rigor, more
>discipline, and in some cases, religious instruction. 


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