Mar 18, 2019, Bridgeport Connecticut Post: Bridgeport school budget forums set https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Bridgeport-school-budget-forums-set-13696817.php BRIDGEPORT — Four forums are scheduled over the next two weeks to suggest what might happen if the city school district doesn’t get a $16 million funding boost for the 2019-20 fiscal years. The forums start Tuesday and replace Community Forums that had been planned in all 10 City Council Districts. A majority of the school, put a stop to those session, after only four were held,, deeming them “too political” and inconsistent in their message. Some city officials apparently complained they were being blamed for school budgets that have forced millions of dollars worth of program cuts. The first, entitled “Where’s Your Money Going?” is sponsored by the Greater Bridgeport NAACP Education Committee and will be held at 6 p.m., March 19, in the Burroughs Public Library, 925 Broad Street… Finally, Bridgeport Caribe Youth Leaders will present a forum at 10 a.m., Saturday, April 6 at the University of Bridgeport, 126 Park Avenue. The school board says it needs $16 million more than its current $248 million operating budget to run existing programs. District officials say they have made more than $38 million in personnel and programming cuts over the past three years to absorb contractual increases in salaries and the rising costs of transportation, health care and special education. One-third of the district budget is spent on special education. … District officials are creating a budget gap plan should they not get the full $16 million. The list include things rejected from past years including shortening the school year by two days — the unions would have to agree — lengthening walking distances for middle school students and consolidating the administration at the Fairchild Wheeler campus.
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Children today are noticeably different from previous generations, and the proof is in the news coverage we see every day. This site shows you what’s happening in schools around the world. Children are increasingly disabled and chronically ill, and the education system has to accommodate them. Things we've long associated with autism, like sensory issues, repetitive behaviors, anxiety and lack of social skills, are now problems affecting mainstream students. Blame is predictably placed on bad parenting (otherwise known as trauma from home).
Addressing mental health needs is as important as academics for modern educators. This is an unrecognized disaster. The stories here are about children who can’t learn or behave like children have always been expected to. What childhood has become is a chilling portent for the future of mankind.
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What will happen in another 4 years? How can we go on like this? This is a national (and international) problem of monumental proportions. We have an entire new class of children who cannot be accommodated by the system: many are manifestly neurologically impaired. Meanwhile, the government and the medical profession sleep on regardless.
John Stone,
UK media editor, Age of Autism
The generation of American children born after 1990 are arguably the sickest generation in the history of our country.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It seemed to me that with rising autism prevalence, you’d also see rising autism costs to society, and it turns out, the costs are catastrophic.
They calculated that in 2015 autism cost the United States $268 billion and they projected that if autism continues at its current rate, we’re looking at one trillion dollars a year in autism costs by 2025, so within five years.
Toby Rogers, PhD, Political economist
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