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"Since then, the school system has distributed almost 3,000 lawn signs and is barely keeping up with the demand for signs, pins, and bumper stickers, said Michele Morgan Bolton, the district’s communications director. Bolton said neighborhoods are competing to see who can post the most lawn signs, and the schools scheduled activities including a social media day last Thursday to bombard Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the like with “Brockton Kids Count’’ messages to state officials.A crowd estimated at more than 1,000 people, most wearing “Brockton Kids Count’’ T-shirts, jammed the Brockton High School Marciano Stadium field on Wednesday for a group photo to use as publicity for the campaign, Bolton said.
She estimated costs for materials at about $25,000, with about $14,000 donated by local businesses and about $11,000 of city funds used."
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Why not just leave it at the signs? Why not just use private money?
It bother me that when we are cutting things like field trips etc am I supposed to tell my kid well you got a button be happy?
25,000 could provide a FT para position
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Is that public record where the $14k came from?
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I would like to know who the donor/donors are.
I also think this is a great PR move as it takes away part of the responsibility of the city in peoples minds and places 100% blame on state
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Proposed by SC:
Layoff 18 Administrative Positions
Eliminate 59 positions permanently
Layoff 100 Teachers
Eliminate Middle School Sports...again
Eliminate low participation HS Sports
Possible closing of 1 School.
You think classroom sizes are large now? There are classrooms in the HS that don't have functioning Overhead Projectors, never mind that projectors are a beyond archaic communication tool. Teachers barely have textbooks and those they do have are tattered and torn.
Brockton Kids Deserve better but it doesn't seem to matter.
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brockton is a gateway city, and there's no turning back no matter how hard the community fanaticism
city is a joke
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If you're a parent with school age children, this should concern you. The class sizes are overflowing as is. Less teachers, more kids in the classroom.
If you're a homeowner, you should be concerned no matter what your feelings are regarding BPS. School ratings impact homeowner values. No one wants to buy if schools aren't good. So it makes it difficult to sell.
And again, no Administrstive personnel will be cut, so once again teachers are shouldering the budget deficits.
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Brockton Kids Count sign Copeland Street on Thursday, May 12, 2016.
PHOTO/ Marc Vasconcellos/The Enterprise
Brockton Kids Count sign Copeland Street on Thursday, May 12, 2016.
BROCKTON – Hundreds of Brockton Kids Count signs throughout the city were purchased with public money, in addition to donations from local businesses.
Brockton Public Schools said it used about $25,000 from a budget line for parent engagement to buy the signs now displayed on front yards throughout the city, as part of a campaign calling on elected leaders like Governor Charlie Baker to increase state funding for the district.
The public funds for the cause come in addition to $14,000 in private donations raised to offset the costs of the Brockton Kids Count campaign.
A spokesperson for the district said that Brockton Public Schools is partnering with the Metro South Chamber of Commerce to forge relationships with the business community, with the goal of raising enough private funds so that the taxpayer cost of the Brockton Kids Count is zero.
The district claims that the Brockton Kids Count has been “extremely successful,” with an additional $618,000 of state funds allocated to the district since the campaign started in late March.
The Brockton Kids Count campaign started with the district facing an approximately $10 million budget shortfall, which Superintendent Kathleen Smith attributed to a new state compensation formula for low-income students, English language learners and special education. In response to the shortfall, the district laid off 57 teachers on Friday and reduced administrative personnel by $1.5 million, among other cuts.
The Brockton Kids Count signs were produced by Standard Modern Printing of Brockton and New Bedford, and the company also donated some of its services, according to the district.
Corporate and individual sponsors of the Brockton Kids Count campaign include Keith Center, Conley Funeral Home, W.B. Mason, Waitt Funeral Home, Brockton School Committee Vice Chairman Thomas J. Minichiello Jr., GTR Manufacturing Corp., Crescent Credit Union, Paramount Rug Company and Siri Steinle.
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Hope I'm reading this incorrectly. I would hate to think that BPS was spending a total of $39k on signs and t-shirts when they laid off 57 teachers today.
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dadof2 wrote: Am I reading this correctly: $25k from School Line item PLUS $14k from private funds?
Hope I'm reading this incorrectly. I would hate to think that BPS was spending a total of $39k on signs and t-shirts when they laid off 57 teachers today.
no, you read that right... lol
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...but the drama club put on Footloose and the poster boy for Brockton public education has chosen to go to Harvard!
I can't wait for all the honest data to be released over the next couple months quantifying how 99.9% of graduates from BHS are going to college .... that ought to shut up critics for a while
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