Warwick
Warwick Superintendent Dr. Peter Horoschak knows where to go to make budget cuts that would save sports and other activities: Superintendent Peter Horoschak calculates that even with the mayor’s plan to save sports and extra curricular activities, the schools still face a $6.1 million budget deficit. In his opinion, the best place to start plugging…
At the Warwick School Committee meeting last night–in a virtual repeat of Monday night’s City Council meeting–residents and students voiced their dismay over the idea of cutting school activities, including sports, to make up looming budget deficits. Perhaps the most insightful, eloquent and forceful defense of sports was given by former Pilgrim standout and Syracuse…
Students protested against a potential cut in school sports and other activities outside of Warwick City Hall last night prior to and during the scheduled City Council Budget hearing. One of the prime movers was information provided by Warwick Schools Superintendent Dr. Peter Horoschak explaining the budget crunch and the various budget scenarios being floated.…
The story reported by NBC10 focused on proposed cuts to Warwick school sports. In fact, all school activities and a few other discretionary items are all that is left to cut out of the Warwick Schools budget (around $2.5 million if my memory serves correctly) if they are to begin to meet the funding limits…
As we’ve learned, the state American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union has decided to support Race to the Top (RTTT). It isn’t too much of a leap to see the link between the recent Central Falls agreement and the AFT sign on, but there also can be little doubt that rank-and-file teachers remain skeptical about…
Yesterday, a report in the Warwick Beacon compared the Cranston and Warwick school systems (the teachers for both districts are represented by AFT). By the numbers: Warwick Budget: $164.6 million Cranston Budget: $121.4 million. Warwick Students: 10,507 Cranston Students: 10,774 Warwick cost/pupil: $15,666 Cranston cost/pupil: $11,272 Warwick # Schools: 24 (3 high schools) Cranston #…
I was surprised to learn that Warwick is alone in “weighing” its students based on whether or not they have an IEP (Individual Education Plan). It goes like this: kid with normal educational needs = 1; kid with IEP = 1.5 (and sometimes 2). So, as the Warwick Beacon reported last week, “there are 10,482…
The Warwick Beacon’s Russel Moore has a piece on the 32 Warwick Firefighters who make more than $100,000/year (salary and O.T.–benefits NOT included) . The Beacon recently requested a list from the City Treasurer of the number of firefighters in Warwick earning $100,000 or more, and a brief description of how those firefighters are paid.…
UPDATE (bumped): Jim Hummel and the ProJo have now covered the Warwick sick time controversy. The ProJo reports different figures–$358,000 in total sick time bonuses–than those previously reported by the Warwick Beacon (a combined $694,000). The contract language that grants these incentives for the three separate bargaining units dates back more than two decades, according…
Most folks, including Marc, seem to agree that opposing $5 per year parking for students at a Warwick school is unreasonable but is likely to have its roots in frustration with a system that has slowly but surely been bleeding educational programs in order to bloat employee contracts. The aspect of the story that strikes…
