May 5, 2017, Gloversville (NY) Leader-Herald: Fonda-Fultonville set to vote on $28.2M budget http://www.leaderherald.com/news/local-news/2017/05/fonda-fultonville-set-to-vote-on-28-2m-budget/
On May 16 Fonda-Fultonville Central School District voters will decide on a $28.2 million proposed 2017-18 school budget that increases the district’s tax levy by 1.9 percent to $10.3 million, up $192,753 from the 2016-17 budget. …
“There are costs that have increased this year that we’ve incorporated into this budget. We’ve actually added a new special education teacher to create a new life skills class for the district,”FFCSD Business Administrator Joseph Karas said.
Superintendent Thomas Ciaccio said the life skills class created by the special education teacher will hopefully enable the district to save about $150,000 by bringing three alternative assessment students, who are all in the age-range of middle school to high school, back from placements in programs outside the district like those offered at HFM BOCES. Ciaccio said outside placements typically cost the district about $50,000 per student.
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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
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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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