Thursday, June 16, 2011
The amount of money a student must pay to participate in school sports has gone up.
Parents and students will have to fork over a little more dough for high school and middle school sports next year. The Athletic Participation Fees for the 2011-12 school year have been increased at both schools. At Trenton High School fees increased from $115 to $130 and at Boyd W. Arthurs Middle School fees increased from $65 to $80 per sport. The increase is effective July 1, 2011, and was approved at Monday's Trenton Board of Education meeting. The recently approved 2011-12 school year budget cut $100,000 out of the athletics budget and Superintendent John Savel said the increase would offset the total loss by about $15,000. Bret Woodley, athletic director at Trenton Public Schools, has already begun initiating fundraisers to make up …
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Trenton board of education members passed a budget in which transportation was eliminated. So, now what?
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Nate Stemen
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
The budget for the 2011-11 school year was adopted Monday, and it did not include transportation for general education students. Parents of Trenton students have been commenting on Trenton Patch's Facebook page since the story was posted late Monday night. Many parents have raised concern for their child's safety and others feel the cut was justified given the reduction in per pupil funding for Michigan Public Schools. A major safety concern brought up was the idea that young children may be forced to cross Fort Street in order to get to school, if they cannot find a ride with a parent or friend. Board members voted in favor of using $250,000 to demolish William C. Taylor Elementary School rather than add busing to the agenda. Busing would…
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Monday's Trenton Board of Education meeting was Superintendent John Savel's last.
John Savel, superintendent for Trenton Public Schools, read the Superintendent's Report for the last time Monday night at the board of education meeting. Savel's official retire date isn't until June 30, but he will be on vacation for the next board meeting, which made Monday his final meeting. Board members celebrated Savel's long career in education by giving him a plaque. "During the past 38 years I have had two quotes hanging in my classroom and/or office, and I would like to leave the district with those thoughts," Savel said. "First, Will Rogers once said, 'Never let yesterday use up too much of tomorrow.' Second, and I don't know who said this one, 'One hundred years from now it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of…
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Saturday, June 11, 2011
A retired Trenton firefighter, Gene Darty tells it how he sees it.
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Saturday, June 11, 2011
The Governor recently stated that he has a deal on a balanced budget. The new budget would restore most of the money to our schools and cities. Also, that their would be a 530 million dollar surplus rainy day fund. Has anyone thought to ask if the governor could have balanced the budget without shifting the 1.8 billion dollars onto the middle class, the working poor, and our retired senior citizens? No journalists of today aren’t asking these pesky questions. There are no new revenues being collected or assessed. So it would seem that the monies were somehow miraculously discovered after the Governor extorted concessions from anyone working in the public sector. The Governor has interfered in every school district, and every city, …
michelle
10:56 am on Friday, June 17, 2011
Right now money is tight, so instead of complaining (which doesn't make money magically appear), we have to find solutions. I'm not happy about the buses. I think they could wait to tear down Taylor and at least keep buses for elementary children (at the very least). I would rather not lose more teachers or have other cuts that affect all of the kids so maybe those were calls that had to be made… more ›