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FUTURE OF SCHOOLS IN LOWER MERION IN JEOPARDY

By refusing to acknowledge the changes that are taking place around them, the Lower Merion School District (“LMSD”) Board and Administration are gambling with the future of educational programs and jeopardizing the completion of renovations at Lower Merion High School. 

Is Outsourcing The School Board's Easy Way Out?

At the October 23, 2006 Lower Merion school board meeting, the Board voted to hire a consultant to investigate outsourcing custodial, grounds-keeping, and transportation services under the guise that they are responding to public demands to streamline the budget.  But, when you look at how the Board is spending the tax payers' dollars, one might ask if their real motivation is to divert the public's focus away from the excessive administration costs and extravagant pet projects that have been the trademark of this Board's tenure.  To know the answer, one just needs to look at the facts.   

Is The School Board Getting Technology Right? (or, What Are We Really Getting For Our Six Million Bucks?)

If you have been following the District's so-called "budget presentations," you may have caught the technology budget presentation.  But is the District really following the advice of the consultant that it so proudly displayed at that presentation.  If you listen to the students, you may wonder if your $6,000,000.00 per year investment is really preparing them for the global economy, or is it simply impressing those who will simply never get it.  In the words of one student, "the results of its implementation suggest this [latter] conclusion."