Posted in Funding Our Schools, General Election, Legislation, State Fiscal Conditions on Oct 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Tomorrow, Oct. 15, is the last day to register for the state and presidential election on Nov. 4, 2008.
The Town Hall in Wenham is open until 7:00 p.m. tonight and 4:30 p.m. tomorrow. The Town Hall in Hamilton will be open until 7:00 p.m. today and 8:00 p.m. tomorrow. It takes just minutes to fill [...]
Posted in Funding Our Schools, Legislation, Stand for Children, State Fiscal Conditions on Sep 29th, 2008 No Comments »
On Nov. 4, Election Day, Massachusetts voters won’t just be choosing a new president. We’ll also be asked to decide whether we want to abolish our state income tax.
While the prospect of having extra cash during these tight times is appealing, budget experts tell us the effect of this enormous amount of lost revenue to [...]
Posted in Funding Our Schools, Legislation, Meetings, State Fiscal Conditions on Sep 25th, 2008 No Comments »
SOS has been working hard for a long time now to get the Commonwealth to funnel more of our tax money back to our own towns and school system.
That’s why we’re excited that State Rep. Brad Hill and Senator Bruce Tarr are inviting all citizens to a multi-town forum on school funding, looking particularly at [...]
Posted in Funding Our Schools, Meetings, State Fiscal Conditions on Sep 18th, 2008 No Comments »
As we hope you’re aware, Support Our Schools (SOS) has been working hard for a long time now to get the Commonwealth to funnel more of our tax money back to our own towns and school system.
That’s why we’re excited that State Rep. Brad Hill and Senator Bruce Tarr are inviting all citizens to a [...]
Posted in Funding Our Schools, State Fiscal Conditions on Aug 26th, 2008 No Comments »
We have created a new section of the website called “Articles“. It will include a number of articles about schools/education as it relates to the Hamilton-Wenham School District. We’re starting off with three articles reprinted from the Boston Globe North edition published last week which deal with the cost of extracurricular fees in our region. [...]
Posted in Funding Our Schools, Meetings, Override, Stand for Children, State Fiscal Conditions on Jul 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Dear school supporters, We hope you are all having a great summer, especially now that the rain seems to have left us. We have three very quick things to pass on:
On August 5 at 7:00 pm there will be a Joint Selectmen’s Meeting at the Wenham Town Hall (selectmen’s room) to discuss the [...]
Posted in Legislation, State Fiscal Conditions on May 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Thanks for sticking with us through this whole legislative process. We’re getting closer, but we do have yet another 90-second favor to ask of you today.
Click here (http://capwiz.com/stand/issues/alert/?alertid=11403426) to go to Stand for Children’s web site, which will help you email Brad Hill and Bruce Tarr.
Here are the details:
The Senate has [...]
Posted in Funding Our Schools, Legislation, State Fiscal Conditions on May 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Important amendments are in the Senate right now — will you send an email?
Can you take 90 seconds out of your morning to send a quick email to Senator Tarr?
Stand for Children has alerted us that several budget amendments we have been tracking all year are up for consideration today, Tuesday May 20th.
In particular, we [...]
Posted in About SOS, Accreditation, Funding Our Schools, Legislation, Override, SPED, State Fiscal Conditions on May 1st, 2008 No Comments »
The SOS committee recently recorded three informational videos which are available on Hamilton Wenham TV as well as Google Video. You can view the videos here at our website by visiting our Videos page.
Here is Hamilton Wenham TV’s schedule for the next two weeks:
Episode 1- 5/3 at 12:30
Episode 2 - 4/30 at 5:00 and [...]
Posted in Funding Our Schools, State Fiscal Conditions on Jan 24th, 2008 No Comments »
These are documents, prepared by the Mass Department of Education, and presented in January of 2008, which illustrate the trends which have impacted on the decline of financial support for instruction in school budgets throughout the Commonwealth.
Preliminary Report on Current Fiscal Conditions in Massachusetts Public Schools (PowerPoint Presentation - 405KB)
Preliminary Report on Current Fiscal Conditions [...]
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