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You're right Pat. They also purchased new reading texts books for the elementary schools to replace outdated ones.Also, they passed up the purchase of new math texts until this year, I think, because they waited for a text that was aligned with common core to become available and I remember someone blogging here who complained that his child was using an old textbook and you explained all this to him. Perhaps if that parent attended a school committee or two they'd know that. Plus, the schools invested in and is implementing RTI, which is an excellent, data-driven program to ID student problem areas early and address them immediately. You sat on the board when they privatized bus services, saving 7 figures. I agree that the the 'labor peace' premise did not hold much water for me. So the dept. does often make good investments and they also make dumb decisions so its a mixed bag. We make a mistake in assuming that people who are good/great educators will presumably make good/great managers. For what it's worth, I think that they're projecting a surplus for this year of, I think, $600k and it could approach $1mm. I believe was said at the March or April meeting.

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