{"id":4658,"date":"2011-08-25T05:38:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T09:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4658"},"modified":"2011-08-25T08:59:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T12:59:39","slug":"morning-read-deeper-school-cuts-bigger-class-sizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/08\/25\/morning-read-deeper-school-cuts-bigger-class-sizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Deeper school cuts, bigger class sizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x151680013\/Beekmantown-Central-eliminates-positions\">Stephen Bartlett at the Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a> is reporting that Beekmantown&#8217;s central school will begin classes next month with dozens fewer positions than last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Beekmantown Central School will start this school year with nearly 30 fewer positions.<\/p>\n<p>The downsizing is a result of cost-savings measures under the 2011-12  spending plan, and further reductions that were required after voters  ultimately defeated that spending plan and the district adopted a  contingency budget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This report follows <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x141817471\/North-Country-classrooms-filling-up\">Bartlett&#8217;s story a couple of days ago<\/a> about deep education cuts in public schools across the district, and the impact on class size.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is going to have an impact on our classrooms,&#8221; said AuSable Valley Central School Superintendent Paul Savage.<\/p>\n<p>AVCS,  faced with a $2.4 million budget deficit due to a cut in state aid and  rising costs in energy, health care, special education and retirement  contributions, laid off 19 faculty and staff members.<\/p>\n<p>The budget  still included a nearly 7-percent increase in the tax levy and an  estimated $1 more on the tax rate per $1,000 of assessed property value.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We  are going to see our class sizes increase, pretty much across the  board,&#8221; said McDonald. &#8220;It certainly could have an impact. We are seeing  more special-needs kids coming in, and that impacts the amount of time  the teacher devotes to all students.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think?\u00a0 Are these the kinds of cuts and austerity measures that tough times call for?\u00a0 Or are we cutting corners on education?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Bartlett at the Plattsburgh Press-Republican is reporting that Beekmantown&#8217;s central school will begin classes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10,6,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4659,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions\/4659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}