Gifted reading program cut by half
BOARD OF EDUCATION BUDGET WORKSHOP
The public voice is back by popular demand!
Your comments will be first on the agenda
6:30 P.M. Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Your comments will be first on the agenda
6:30 P.M. Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Brown School
WEAR RED TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT
The reading teacher in the gifted program is the only full-time teaching position slated for a cut under the 0% increase budget requested by the City Council and presented to the school board by South Portland Superintendent Suzanne Godin. That cut would leave just one reading teacher to cover five elementary and two middle school reading programs for gifted, and will leave only three teachers of the gifted for the entire district.
Your presence and your voice are the only way to show school board members that parents of gifted kids care about the program. Show up for meetings. Call, e-mail, and speak up when you attend school board and city council meetings. Encourage friends and neighbors to do the same.
You can find a link to the school budget presentation at
http://www.spsd.org/?q=story/031511/fy-2012-budget-presentation
Other helpful resources are at the end of this post. Please feel free to use the comments section to post others that you find helpful.
City Council
City Council
Tom Blake
Telephone: 799-5723
TEblake@aol.com
District One
Tom Coward
Telephone: 329-8637
Tcoward@southportland.org
District Two
Patti Smith
Telephone: (207) 615-3870
Psmith@southportland.org
District Three
Rosemarie De Angelis
Telephone: 799-0219
rdeangelis@southportland.org
District Four
Maxine R. Beecher
Telephone: 799-8888
MBeecher@maine.rr.com
School Board
At Large
Ralph Baxter Jr
Ralph Baxter Jr
Telephone: 799-0777
District 3
Richard Matthews
Telephone: 871-9945
Telephone: 772-5432 // 799-0001
fitzgeta@spsd.org
fitzgeta@spsd.org
South Portland AG is on Facebook: South Portland Gifted
http://www.megat.org/Maine_Educators_of_the_Gifted_and_Talented/Dept._of_Ed._Chap._104.html
A useful site, designed for Maine educators of gifted children, but useful for parents as well:
http://www.megat.org
