Feb 26, 2020, New London, CT, The Day: Norwich school budget increase projected at 11% next year; $1.1 million deficit this year https://www.theday.com/local-news/20200226/norwich-school-budget-increase-projected-at-11-next-year-11-million-deficit-this-year Norwich — There wasn’t much good news at Wednesday’s school board budget committee meeting, attended by three aldermen, as the current year deficit is projected at $1.1 million, and the worst-case scenario projection for the 1920-21 budget calls for an 11% spending increase. Superintendent Kristen Stringfellow cautioned that next year’s projection included the worst-case special education tuition and enrollment projections for Norwich Free Academy, contributing to a projected $3 million total tuition increase next year. But once the actual breakdown of special education placements in various NFA programs is done, that projection should come down, she said. The projected total budget for next year is $90.4 million, a $9.3 million or 11.5% increase over the current year’s $81 million approved budget…. Noncertified staff salaries have a $241,067 projected deficit, attributed to overtime needed to integrate a major new financial software system that will be in synch with the city government system. Special education transportation, a perennial costly and unpredictable item, Nagel said, is projected at a $442,595 deficit, and regular education transportation is showing a $348,239 deficit….
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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.
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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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