Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Where in Franklin? #49


Pine Woods along trail, originally uploaded by lastonein.

A challenge this time submitted by a reader.

Where would you find this scene?

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


Where in Franklin? Answer #48


Where in Franklin? #48, originally uploaded by shersteve.

The answer came in from two folks correctly identifying this as
Bullukian Oil on Alpine Row.

Thanks for playing!

"Some people believe school officials are not actually going to follow through"

GHS
Posted May 13, 2008 @ 10:42 PM

FRANKLIN —

Forty-seven teachers were given notices yesterday informing them they may not have a job this September, Superintendent Wayne Ogden announced last night.

The teachers, whose identities are not public, were told the district's budget made it impossible to promise them a job in the fall, Ogden said.

School Committee Chairman Jeffrey Roy said it made him "sick."

"It's just painful for people who received the notices, it's their livelihood," Ogden said, noting some of the teachers have worked in Franklin schools many years.

"It's a heavy burden for them," said Ogden, who decided to warn teachers early to give them an opportunity to find other jobs.

Read the full story at the Milford Daily News here


Tuesday, May 13, 2008

School Committee Mtg Summary 5/13/08

These are the written posts I made during the meeting.

The audio files for these segments will be posted as time permits.



Text summary of each meeting segment

Sub - committee reports/New business

Rohrbach
working on goals for the new business administrator, Miriam Goodman

Rohrbach, can we get a MetroWest Health Survey update
to be put on a future meeting agenda

Cafasso
can we get a listing of programs that are "unfunded mandates"

Nov 18th, Nov 25th
4th is election day, 11th is Veterans day

"this is not a drill"

April to April - 200 increase

coincidently works out to about $2.6 million, increase in students means an increase in costs

high school enrollment will increase at a minimum of 101

17 teacher positions are projected to be cut at the high school
parents of means make make the choice after June 10th to move the students to private school to maintain a smaller class size

Sabolinski
"this is not a drill"

Roy
"This is not the way to attract and retain good teachers"

Reduction in Force - "layoff notices"

47 individuals received notice today due to the uncertainty of budget that makes it impossible to renew a contract for next year.

Meets the contractual notice one month early to give the opportunity to look for employment.

Identities of those individuals are not for public discussion at this time.