Mar 9, 2019, West Lebanon, NH, Valley News: Claremont to vote on refined budget in Tuesday elections https://www.vnews.com/Claremont-to-vote-on-school-budget-other-appropriations-23942318 When residents go the polls Tuesday to vote on the school budget and other appropriations, School Board Chairman Frank Sprague hopes they fully understand the different approach the board and administration took this year in developing the $35.3 million spending plan and the close attention paid to trimming spending where possible…. These costs include salaries and wages under previously approved negotiated collective bargaining agreements, increases in health, dental and employee retirement costs and out-of-district placement of students. Those increases, built in for next year, total more than $800,000. The spending increase in the $31.8 million operating budget is about $330,000, or 1 percent, above the current school year. …Most of the personnel increase is for a new special education alternative program at the elementary level that school officials say will save the district money in the long run and be a better educational model for students. The proposal would have up to 12 students in two rooms with teachers, mental health workers and a social worker. Benware said by keeping special education students local, instead having them travel as much as 90 minutes each way to receive services, it could save the district about $90,000 per student and also provide an improved educational environment with the students being closer to home and learning with their peers. “It is an investment in education,” Benware said at the Feb. 6 school deliberative session. …
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Childhood Lost
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.
Loss of Brain Trust features over 9,000 news stories published worldwide since January, 2017
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
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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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