Please disregard all the typos in my previous email, I really can spell    

Thnaks John, I assumed it was law, just one that doesn't seem to make sense

Hi Jeff, John and all

A grass-roots organization is being formed to get a grip on the ever-raising school taxes that will soon pauperize us all while education simultaneously deteriorates.

That organization is called C.U.R.E. (Citizens United to Reform Education).  

You might have seen the ads in the Examiner News and the Putnam Press.  Top of the list is the consolidation of the six districts into one Putnam Central Board of Education.  We had such a structure not half century ago.  Can anyone rationalize the hiring of Six Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents, Directors, clericals, etc. etc. in one of the smallest counties in the state with a total school population of a little over 17,000?  And the outrage of tax increases in a falling economy?

Proposal: One Commissioner and Deputy with Directors - Business/Purchasing; Curriculum and Instruction, Personnel; Transportation.  A lot of push back is expected from those in the bloated, high salaried, duplicative central office administration but we need to bite the bullet.

This is district consolidation not a school consolidation.  No child will be moved from their present school; no teacher will be transferred to another school and no principal will lose his/her job.  The current number of schools will remain.

We are  in talks with interested parties at the county and state level.  If you wish to join this movement to bring sanity and common sense to the school system, the e-mail address is: info@cureputnam.org

VOTE NO!! on May 18th and put a period on the status quo.