03.26.2008 | 7:38 am | Local Government, Schools
Looks there is a bit of good news on the budget front. The actual increase for health insurance for the town was only 2.5% compared to the 15% that was budgeted. Most of the money will be allocated to the school so the override of 2 1/2 only needs to be $800k.
BTW only one selectman voted against giving the additional allocated money to the schools -Phil Dardeno, who is up for re-election this year by the way.
The vote for the override will on be on April 7th 7 PM so get out and vote - a 2/3 must vote yes for the override. And if you need babysitting service, NRUE will have be sponsoring a babysitting service for you! Just drop by the High School from 6:40pm on.
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03.4.2008 | 4:43 pm | Local Government, Schools
If you go to this government site, you can get a real nice snapshot of the key metrics of how the NR School system is doing. How are they spending the money and how the NR school system fares versus the stat average.
Here are some interesting items given the current future vote to get an override to fund the added needs for the public school system:
- The average spend per pupil for North Reading is $8,429 in 2006 versus a state average of $11,210 or 26% lower.
- The Student/Teacher Ratio for 2006/2007 in NR was 15.5 to 1 versus a state average of 13.2 to1.
- The graduation rate was a nice 93.6% versus the state average 80.9% (2006/2007 school year).
As I mentioned in a previous post, money invested in the school systems is to me a no-brainer as long as the MCAS / school rankings go up along with the investment.
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