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I'm waiting for some spouse of an SCPD or NCPD guy to come on and admit that hubby is raping the taxpayer. I won't hold my breath.
I've yet to see that on these boards myself. Families of cops are united like nothing else, and even the slightest concession would mean betrayal on their part.
I will say this. They are VERY VERY well organized when it comes to voting. The general electorate in LI is very apathetic....almost numb to it all. The cops families turn out in full force..even in off year elections..and hold big sway. The only way to defeat them is to better mobilize the apathetic LI folks that are too busy shopping and going to Jr.'s 5 birthday parties at Chucky Cheese.
Maybe there are different ways of calculating the per-student spending?? Is it simply total budget / number of students. Or is it (Spending on instruction) / number of students.
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Originally Posted by azzurrony
WJFM,
I'm not sure where those Newsday numbers come from. I got my numbers from the school budget itself and GC News. Either way though, even using Newsday figures, it is still a lower cost than the other top districts (except for Herricks).
I still feel our police, fire, garbage, sewer are the real culprits of the high taxes...at least for our village.
I've yet to see that on these boards myself. Families of cops are united like nothing else, and even the slightest concession would mean betrayal on their part.
I will say this. They are VERY VERY well organized when it comes to voting. The general electorate in LI is very apathetic....almost numb to it all. The cops families turn out in full force..even in off year elections..and hold big sway. The only way to defeat them is to better mobilize the apathetic LI folks that are too busy shopping and going to Jr.'s 5 birthday parties at Chucky Cheese.
..not to mention the constant calling by the NYFOP. Thank goodness for cablevision's on screen caller ID, I don't even have to get out of my recliner. I have my 401K and you have a tax payer subsidized pension, and you're asking me for money...and it's 8:30 pm?
...but if you don't think firing all the experienced teachers, as Walter suggests, wouldn't effect how the school district is viewed, you're nuts. Talk about throwing the baby out with the bath water.
You miss the point: after laying off all the teachers and selling the school buildings and most other school district property, the school district would no longer be an operating school district and would simply be a mechanism for collecting (reduced) property taxes and passing these funds as vouchers to the students in the district to use at a private school or at another still existing gov't school in districts that did not lay off their teachers and sell their buildings..
My assumption is that newly formed private schools will bid for the school buildings that the school district will be liquidating and that they will interview and hire many of the teachers layed off by the school district, but at a much more rational salary and benefits package.
You miss the point: after laying off all the teachers and selling the school buildings and most other school district property, the school district would no longer be an operating school district and would simply be a mechanism for collecting (reduced) property taxes and passing these funds as vouchers to the students in the district to use at a private school or at another still existing gov't school in districts that did not lay off their teachers and sell their buildings..
My assumption is that newly formed private schools will bid for the school buildings that the school district will be liquidating and that they will interview and hire many of the teachers layed off by the school district, but at a much more rational salary and benefits package.
I won't say it.
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