Mar 9, 2018, (East Hampton, NY) Southampton Press: ESM Will Slash Teaching Staff, Potentially Close One School Building By 2021 To Bridge Funding Gap http://www.27east.com/news/article.cfm/Eastport/549853/ESM-Will-Slash-Teaching-Staff-Potentially-Close-One-School-Building-By-2021-To-Bridge-Funding-Gap Eastport South Manor administrators unveiled a list of recommended budget cuts at last night’s Board of Education meeting, eliminating dozens of staff positions to help close a $4.7 million budget gap for the 2018-19 school year—a gap that widened by $500,000 from last month’s estimates. One of the district’s four elementary schools also could be closed by 2021 to address the funding crisis.... Currently the district employs 281 teachers, 21 administrators, 122 aides, and 83 teachers assistants. … That would total $4,774,756 in cuts, closing the gap between the district’s expenditures and revenues. Mr. Laube said on Thursday that the reason for the latest increase is an unexpected $400,000 increase in special education costs, …
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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.
Anne Dachel, Media editor, Age of Autism
http://www.ageofautism.com/media/
(John Dachel, Tech. assist.)
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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