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<b>Public Schools for the most part serve a wider audience</b> and have
been given the responibilty/directive to deal with our present
family/parenting realities. With both parents working, declining incomes
in adjusted dollars, uncertain employment future due manufacturing being
exported, etc. I am supporting this levy with these
suggestions/imperatives<br><br>
<b>Increase the number of instructional days to a minimum of 190
days.</b> Recall Canada is at 200 days (with less cost per student
than the US and the MSD in adjusted dollars.) Other advanced economies
are at 211 days (with less cost per student that US and MSD).<br>
<b>Do not increase the number of hours per day.</b> This has the
potential of giving teachers more time for preparation and the kids more
time to sleep,recreate, practice the piano, etc. <br><br>
<b>Give the non college bound a skill.</b> Pullman outperforms the
MSD in academic acheivement; with 5-7 times the amount<br>
of skills (learning by doing.), higher postsecondary enrollment, higher
graduation rates, much higher use of their<br>
university, more AP,and a lower cost per student. Look to
Pullman. The non college bound have a much better education in
Pullman. Let's do something about this. The MSD with $2
million extra plus the state now kicking in-places MSD's funding at a
high level if the state follows through. I don't have any
reason to believe that they will not. Luna so far has shown to be
education's friend. Education is bipartisan issue. MSD is not
the friend of the non college bound but could be.<br><br>
<b>Use the vast resources of the UI.</b> This has been offered by
UI and rejected by the MSD. All requires a change in attitude,
something I found completely lacking when I was on the board.<br><br>
<b>Have a 5 year contract that all in the community understands.</b> On
one hand MSD wants a permanent levy increase that is supposed to last 5
years before the next, yet I am deeply concerned that giving a
"bolus"of money upfront and a "starving" situation
five years from now is unfair to all concerned. MSD
will exceed the amount of funding per student than the schools of
Virginia. <br>
Thus funding is not the issue if the levy is given a
positive. Jerry<br><br>
<br><br>
At 12:42 PM 1/26/07, keely emerinemix wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I echo Sue's thoughts, and
wonder if Kerry and others remember that this is to raise the amount of
the permanent levy Moscow voters enabled by voting years ago for (I
think) nine consecutive levies, whose passage resulted in the permanent
levy, but at the current rate. It's not enough.<br><br>
keely<br><br>
From: "Sue Hovey" <suehovey@moscow.com><br>
To: "kerry becker" <kerrybecker6924@hotmail.com>,
kjajmix1@msn.com, <br>
deco@moscow.com, vision2020@moscow.com<br>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] MSD is at it again!<br>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:32:26 -1000<br>
<br>
Kerry,<br><br>
I guess most of us do what we do based on our personal feelings, but I
wonder what has impacted you to feel a levy is unnecessary? There
are those on this site I know would never vote for a levy and regardless
of their talking around it, that's their bottom line. Mostly I
don't respond to their postings, because I know they really don't care
about the kids in Mocow schools. As Doug Wilson once told me,
"I wouldn't care if every government school in Moscow closed
tomorrow." But others may have legitimate
concerns. I tend to believe you are among that group, so I am
wondering what led you to believe Moscow Schools don't need the money a
levy would bring in. I want something more than, "cut the
fat," because I know there hasn't been any fat in the school
district budget for a long, long time. If you disagree, please be
specific.<br><br>
Sue<br>
----- Original Message -----<br>
From: kerry becker<br>
To: suehovey@moscow.com ; kjajmix1@msn.com ; deco@moscow.com ;
vision2020@moscow.com<br>
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2007 8:44 AM<br>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] MSD is at it again!<br><br>
<br>
I agree. I would gladly vote for a levy whether my children
were in public schools or not if I thought that money was needed. I
just personally don't feel it is at this time.<br><br>
<br><br>
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From: "Sue Hovey"
<suehovey@moscow.com><br>
To: "kerry becker"
<kerrybecker6924@hotmail.com>, kjajmix1@msn.com, deco@moscow.com,
vision2020@moscow.com<br>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] MSD is at it again!<br>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:46:48 -1000<br><br>
<br>
Johnathan Kozol once shrewdly asked the question,
"Why when it's investment in General Motors, for instance, is it
referred to as R & D, but when it's funding for public schools it's
"throwing money at them?" Just a thought.<br><br>
I am retired living on a fixed income, and my children
are no longer in Moscow's schools, but when they were, someone whose
children were no longer there understood my children's education was also
important, so they voted for those levies anyway. I plan to do that
for someone else's children when I vote for the levy this time
around.<br><br>
Sue Hovey<br>
----- Original Message -----<br>
From: kerry becker<br>
To: kjajmix1@msn.com ; deco@moscow.com ;
vision2020@moscow.com<br>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 5:46
PM<br>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] MSD is at it
again!<br><br>
<br>
Keely, I currently have two kids in the
public schools and I still may not vote for the levy. Throwing
money at the situation is always the solution.<br><br>
<br><br>
<br><br>
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From: "keely
emerinemix" <kjajmix1@msn.com><br>
To:
kerrybecker6924@hotmail.com, deco@moscow.com, vision2020@moscow.com<br>
Subject: Re:
[Vision2020] MSD is at it again!<br>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007
17:53:34 -0800<br>
>My goodness, Kerry.
It's a good thing you're not prone to<br>
>defensiveness.<br>
><br>
>"Sane" in this
context was a bit of rhetorical hyperbole; contrasted<br>
>to the idea of worshiping
God through a hope for the destruction of<br>
>public schools, it was a
parallel. As in, one idea that sounds odd<br>
>contrasted to another,
albeit exaggerated, idea.<br>
><br>
>How 'bout this:
People who vote against the upcoming levy are not<br>
>clinically insane.<br>
><br>
>They are, however,
evidently unaware of the difficulties public<br>
>schools face these days --
or else they're so blinded by hate for<br>
>them that they don't
really care.<br>
><br>
>Feel better?<br>
><br>
>keely<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
>From: "kerry
becker" <kerrybecker6924@hotmail.com><br>
>To: kjajmix1@msn.com,
deco@moscow.com, vision2020@moscow.com<br>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020]
MSD is at it again!<br>
>Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007
16:57:11 -0800<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
>"Saner people will,
we hope, study the facts and vote "yes" on the<br>
>levy."<br>
><br>
><br>
>Keely- Those of us
who vote Against the levy are still "sane."<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
>From: "keely
emerinemix" <kjajmix1@msn.com><br>
>To: deco@moscow.com,
vision2020@moscow.com<br>
>Subject: Re:
[Vision2020] MSD is at it again!<br>
>Date: Wed, 24 Jan
2007 16:21:52 -0800<br>
> >Thanks, Wayne, for
the info you presented here. You're right, of<br>
> >course, but if one's
worship of God requires them to pray for the<br>
> >destruction of public
schools, well . . . not much is gonna<br>
> >penetrate.<br>
> ><br>
> >Saner people will, we
hope, study the facts and vote "yes" on the<br>
> >levy.<br>
> ><br>
> >keely<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> >From: "Art
Deco" <deco@moscow.com><br>
> >To: "Vision
2020" <vision2020@moscow.com><br>
> >Subject: Re:
[Vision2020] MSD is at it again!<br>
> >Date: Wed, 24 Jan
2007 16:10:47 -0800<br>
> ><br>
> >The vapid
Lemon-O<br>
>cites:<br>
> ><br>
> >"Iâ?Tve asked
this rhetorical question before: why, when the<br>
>number<br>
> >of students are
increasing, do the school districts say they need<br>
> >more money; and, when
the number of students are decreasing, they<br>
> >say they need more
money?"<br>
> ><br>
> >1.
Inflation, which is greater for some things than others and<br>
> >most likely impacts
schools more than many other activities.<br>
> ><br>
> >2.
Requirements from the unfunded/underfunded "No Child Left<br>
> >Behind," a Bush
program which places additional burdens on local<br>
> >school districts, but
either does not fund these burdens or funds<br>
> >them
inadequately.<br>
> ><br>
> >3.
More and more parents are unwilling to take the time to<br>
> >participate with
helping their children with their education thus<br>
><br>
> >slowing the rate of
education and causing expense for remedial<br>
> >actions.<br>
> ><br>
> >4.
Public schools have more and more non-educational problems<br>
>to<br>
> >deal with, many of
them wrought by inadequate/irresponsible<br>
> >parenting.<br>
> ><br>
> >5.
Etc.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> >Also Lemon-O, it is
nice of you to pass on these nuggets of<br>
> >illogical rhetoric
from chicken-shit Courtney's web-blot as he<br>
> >covers in fear of
being found out by those he thinks he is<br>
> >preventing from
accessing his pathetic efforts to be almost as<br>
> >vapid, and certainly
at least as dishonest and hypocritical as you<br>
> >are.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> >Art Deco (Wayne A.
Fox)<br>
> >deco@moscow.com<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> >----- Original
Message -----<br>
> >From:
<heirdoug@netscape.net><br>
> >To:<br>
><vision2020@moscow.com><br>
> >Sent: Wednesday,
January 24, 2007 3:47 PM<br>
> >Subject: [Vision2020]
MSD is at it again!<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > > My latest
installment for those under the ban!<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Wednesday,
January 24, 2007 2:13 PM Right-Mind<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > > MSD to send out
newsletter to residents regarding levy increase<br>
> > > Iâ?Tll post a
copy of this as soon as I get it.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Iâ?Tve asked
this rhetorical question before: why, when the<br>
> >number of<br>
> > > students are
increasing, do the school districts say they need<br>
> >more<br>
> > > money; and,
when the number of students are decreasing, they<br>
>say<br>
> >they<br>
> > > need more
money?<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Hereâ?Ts what
one local blogger had to say about this:<br>
> > ><br>
> > > But in this
case, and in this<br>
>election, I think all
these<br>
> >standard<br>
> > > issues are
really beside the point. The real point in this<br>
> >election is<br>
> > > one of simple
affordability. The major industry in town (the<br>
> >University<br>
> > > of Idaho) is in
serious decline. Our Moscow civic leadership<br>
>has<br>
> >been<br>
> > > busy chasing
new prospective businesses out of town. Within the<br>
> >next<br>
> > > year, a good
portion of the tax base is going to move just<br>
>across<br>
> >the<br>
> > > state line, and
the businesses in the new mall there will no<br>
> >doubt set<br>
> > > up some
blinking lights to summon Moscow shoppers over. Ross<br>
> >Perot's<br>
> > > famous phrase
about the giant sucking sound comes to mind.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Another
illustration that comes to mind is the one about<br>
> >champagne<br>
> > > tastes and a
beer budget. And<br>
>you can't chase all the
champagne<br>
> >vendors<br>
> > > out of town,
and then complain about the beer. As a simple<br>
>matter<br>
> >of<br>
> > > economics, tax
support for the MSD requires a thriving tax<br>
>base.<br>
> >When<br>
> > > you cut the
latter, you cut the former. Some might want to<br>
> >complain, if<br>
> > > this levy goes
down, that it was the nefarious work of home<br>
> >schoolers,<br>
> > > Christian
conservatives, or what not. But this one appears to<br>
>me<br>
> >to<br>
> > > have been done
already, without any opponents of "government<br>
> >schools"<br>
> > > lifting a
finger.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > No, this was
done by the liberals running the Moscow show. You<br>
> >can't<br>
> > > take a chain
saw to the orchard, and wonder resentfully the<br>
> >following<br>
> > > autumn about
the apple shortage.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > As<br>
>reported in today's
edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > The Moscow
School District is moving forward with plans for its<br>
> >$1.97<br>
> > > million
supplemental levy increase, which will go before voters<br>
> >March<br>
> > > 27.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Superintendent
Candis Donicht worked with the districtâ?Ts<br>
>school<br>
> >board<br>
> > > members during
their Tuesday meeting to develop a draft of an<br>
> > > informational
newsletter that will hit mailboxes in the coming<br>
> >weeks.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > The newsletter
will give a brief explanation of the indefinite<br>
> > > supplemental
levy. It also will explain how the levy increase<br>
> >works,<br>
> > > what it will
cost taxpayers, and what it pays for within the<br>
> >district.<br>
> > > The newsletter
also will answer other basic questions.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > > Board members
discussed changing the time the polls would be<br>
>open<br>
> >for<br>
> > > the election.
Board clerk Annette Erickson reported to the<br>
>board<br>
> >the<br>
> > > effects of a
7:30 a.m. opening of the polls that had been<br>
> >suggested at<br>
> > > their December
meeting by board member Margaret Dibble. The<br>
>board<br>
> > > decided to
maintain its current plan to have the election from<br>
>8<br>
> >a.m.<br>
> > > to 8 p.m. at
the Exhibit Building of the Latah County<br>
> >Fairgrounds.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Board members
also discussed how to support and offer their<br>
> >assistance<br>
> > > to groups of
parents who want to support the levy.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > In other news,
Donicht reported on the districtâ?Ts first<br>
> >participation<br>
> > > in the city of
Moscowâ?Ts 18-month long-range planning process.<br>
><br>
> >Three<br>
> > > district
administrators and two board members participated in a<br>
> > > facilitator
training session about 10 days ago. If selected by<br>
> >the<br>
> > > city, they will
go into sections of the community to help<br>
>gather<br>
> >input<br>
> > > from residents
on issues such as neighborhoods and growth.<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
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