Reasons to Support Article 5

Seven Reasons to Support Article 5 - Sent to me via Gayle

1. Croydon is one of the smallest if not the smallest school district in the state. Containing one school and two teachers.
2. In order to provide an education for our children we need to have choice in the schools we send our children to from 4-12 grades.
3. We are locked in an Area agreement with Newport and we sent our children to schools in Newport that did not meet the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) for SIX YEARS IN A ROW
4. Voting yes to article will not end the Area Agreement; it only appoints a committee to look into the possibility. On the committee is two Croydon school board members, one Newport school board member, one Croydon town official, the Superintendent of Schools, and members of the public. After an examination into the possibility of ending the agreement or keeping it a Public vote is required.
5. Cornish did this several years ago and it has the lowest annual increase (5 percent).
6. If the Area Agreement was discontinued, you could still choose to send you children to Newport.
7. It will not raise your taxes; parents would pay any tuition above the standard tuition to send their students to a different school.

Cathy
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"Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational 'excellence,' I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity" -- Thomas Sowell.

Long Term School Planning Meeting.

The school planning meeting was to be held last night at Croydon School. The meeting was posted in the paper. Gayle and Wendy felt it was not necessary to meet but Jim went to the meeting because it was posted in the Argus Champion, he wanted to be on hand incase anyone had question. Jim saw a couple leave as he was pulling into the parking lot. If anyone has questions they can contact Jim at george@joltmail.com.