Norwich City School working to reduce financial strain
NORWICH – Interim Superintendent Diana Bowers has been working with business managers to balance the Norwich school budget and bring the district back in the black.
During Wednesday night’s school board meeting, Bowers announced the school expects to start receiving more state aid after correcting a number of issues identified in a recent state report. Those fixes should help increase the amount of aid the school is eligible for.
The Resident Weighted Average Daily Attendance (RWADA) report looks at how many students are in attendance of the school district and the poverty level of the area, as well as the financial circumstances surrounding each student.
Bowers said the average RWADA score for New York is 1, and anything below 1 is considered to be at poverty level. Norwich Schools score is .5 and is considered a high needs district.
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First CUTS should be to "Interim Superintendent Diana Bowers" salary. I say no more than $70k / per year !! Next step is to make our school a charter school and get back to real teaching and dump the common core. Charter schools are far more efficient in finances, learning, and you will be eligible for more aid plus it lowers the taxes of those who don't have kids. Another point of charter schools is to teach FACT not liberalized pieces of history that suits one political view. It's time to bring back civics class so the next generations know how and why we came about !! Our freedoms are in danger because our schools are producing blinder wearing sheep who don't seem to have the common sense or desire to strike out on their own and stand up on their own two feet and be responsible adults.