Facility Consolidation (audio)

The Franklin School Committee get an update from the group that met with some of the Town Council and other Town administration to discuss the proposa. It will require a memorandum of understanding between the Town Council and School Committee to put into effect.

Details remain to be worked out but in Jeff Roy's terms it was "the most productive meeting on this topic".

Time: 8 minutes, 16 seconds



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Superintendent Wayne Ogden's goals approved (audio)

While the School Committee approved the goals for Superintendent Wayne Ogden, it would be nice to have a copy of the goals to review.

Time: 5 minutes, 52 seconds



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Budget to Actual (audio)

The Franklin School Committee spends a brief bit on the FY08 budget to actual report and report process.

Time: 2 minutes, 1 second



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1st Reading: Residence Policy revision (audio)

The Franklin School Committee considers a revision to the current residence policy and moves the revision to a 2nd reading. A copy of the draft is available here.

Time: 9 minutes, 0 seconds



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1st Reading: Entrance Age Policy revision (audio)

The Entrance Age policy has revisions under discussion. This is the first reading. A copy of the draft is available here.

This draft will be adjusted per the discussion and moved to 2nd Reading.

Time: 11 minutes, 10 seconds



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FY09 - Final questions (audio)

Franklin School Committee completes their discussion for today on the proposed FY09 budget.

Times: 10 minutes, 45 seconds



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FY09 - Elementary School principals (audio)

Franklin School Committee continues the detail discussion on the FY09 budget with the Elementary School principals

Time: 13 minutes, 14 seconds



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FY09 - Special Ed: L Waters (Audio)

Franklin School Committee continues the discussion on FY09 budget with Linda Waters on the special education budget

Time: 6 minutes, 34 seconds



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FY09 - Middle school principals (audio)

Franklin School Committee meeting continues the discussion on the proposed FY09 budget cuts and in detail the impact in the middle schools.

Time: 26 minutes, 14 seconds



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FY09 - High School Impact (audio)

Franklin School Committee continues the discussion on FY09 with questions on the impact at the high school. Paula Mullen and Pam Gould primary speakers in this segment.

Pam also returns at the end of the Middle School segment for an additional question.

Time: 2 minutes, 32 seconds



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FY09 - Wayne Ogden's overview (audio)

The Franklin School Committee got to get into some details with the school prinicpals during the meeting 3/25/08. Supt. Wayne Ogden leads the introductory overview in this segment.

Time: 17 minutes, 2 seconds



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Where in Franklin? #40

Where in Franklin? #40, originally uploaded by shersteve.

Where do you find this sign proclaiming that they are open for business?

The guidelines for playing "Where in Franklin?" can be found here.

Where in Franklin? Answer #39

Where in Franklin? Answer #39, originally uploaded by shersteve.

The answer to picture #39 is the Horace Mann Museum currently located at the Old South Meeting Church building on Washington St but being planned to move into the old Senior Center building downtown sometime this year.

Thanks for playing!

Stay tuned for the next picture.

In the News - diesel costs for school buses

The skyrocketing price of diesel fuel is putting a squeeze on school budgets and the contractors that districts hire to bus students.

"It's impacting us tremendously," said Joseph Vendetti, owner of Vendetti Bus Co. in Franklin. "Everybody's complaining about paying $3 a gallon for gasoline, and we're paying $4 for diesel."

Most school buses run on diesel, and the cost for that fuel shot past $4 last week - up 59 cents from just five weeks ago, according to AAA of Southern New England. As of Monday, the average price for diesel in Massachusetts was $4.14 a gallon.

Read the full article in the Milford Daily news

Gee, imagine if?

Gee, imagine if something like that could happen here?

“It was a very difficult choice to have to use one-time revenue, but it’s Franklin, and we have to make sure our schools work,” Nutting said. “Classroom instruction remains our top priority, and we cannot retreat on progress.”

This is purely wishful thinking, at least for now, as this quote is a doctoring of what Mayor Tom Menino said when Boston came up with additional funding to help balance the city's school budget, as reported in the Boston Globe.

Tom Menino really did say:

“It was a very difficult choice to have to use one-time revenue, but it’s Boston, and we have to make sure our schools work,” Menino said. “Classroom instruction remains our top priority, and we cannot retreat on progress.”

alas Jeff Nutting did not.