Hope for Lawrence?

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by WestieWhitie

Problem is, taxpayer money-throwing usually involves a whole army of senior, junior, assistant and assistant's assistant directors, coordinators, expediters and facilitators. Just look at SF - $100,000 spent per zombie per year, zombie is lucky if he gets a few McD meals a month out of it by the time it passes through all the layers and settles in all of the right pockets.

The problem is the numbers are wrong. Lawrence spends $15.2k per pupil. With the huge amount of ESL and other special education students, that’s a really low number. With COVID-19, they’ll never get most of the students anywhere close to grade level.

[mdovell]

Originally Posted by GeoffD

The problem is the numbers are wrong. Lawrence spends $15.2k per pupil. With the huge amount of ESL and other special education students, that’s a really low number. With COVID-19, they’ll never get most of the students anywhere close to grade level.

I checked those numbers and even worse is that 94% of the school budget comes from the state. It's really hard for parent to say their taxes pay for anything worth that amount. There's no way the stare will give anything close to local control work those numbers. Every other gateway city is doing much better.

[LLCNYC]

Originally Posted by Beachcomber4

No and hell no.

This. X 1000.

[bostongymjunkie]

When the mills begin weaving fabric and spinning yarn again, Lawrence may have hope.

[mdovell]

Originally Posted by bostongymjunkie

When the mills begin weaving fabric and spinning yarn again, Lawrence may have hope.

I think they can but to be frank with you if that's going to happen it's going to be in western Mass and not eastern Mass. The best place to do that would probably be Holyoke. We've talked quite a bit about legalized marijuana and the 18 thousand or so jobs have been created over the past five years but there hasn't really been any discussion about him. Hampton easily replace cotton and paper. Holyoke has positioned itself to pretty much be the weed Capital of Massachusetts if not New England. They are literally approving marijuana facilities left and right. The low electrical rate and the amount of space and the highway access and the lower cost-of-living for employees create this.

It's not like we haven't had other cultivation of crops in New England. Tobacco still grown id parts of Connecticut. If you can grow marijuana should be able to grow hemp. Having said factories are about automating processes and not manual labor. The prior president was never going to bring back your great-grandfather's asbestos brake pads Factory. Supposedly the General Electric facility in Pittsfield had at its feet 14,000 employees. I know of factories that probably 5% of that. CRRC MA has maybe 300 at most