School Board to restore school programs, but . . .

Sandy Cullen:

Madison School Board members have come up with their lists of programs to put back into next year's budget.
But in order to get those items back, four of the board's seven members have to agree not only on what to add, but how to fund it.

Madison School Board President Johnny Winston Jr. wants to restore the district's elementary strings program for fifth- graders to twice a week, keep fourth- and fifth-grade classes at Lincoln Elementary School limited to 20 students and fund programs to improve the attendance of Hmong students and to make schools safer by reducing bullying.

School Board member Ruth Robarts wants to keep the strings program for fourth graders as well as fifth-graders, nix increases in student textbook fees and restore the positions of library pages who assist school librarians, which were cut from the $332 million budget district administrators have proposed for next year.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 24, 2006 6:57 AM
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