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Witness: Rapid City school district cuts have hurt |
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By CHET BROKAW
Associated Press Writer
Capital Journal Newspaper in Poerre, S.D. writes:
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The Rapid City School District is not providing an adequate education to many of its students, a former member of the district's school board testified Monday in the trial of a lawsuit that challenges South Dakota's funding system for education.
Eric Abrahamson, whose term on the school board ended in July, testified about cuts that he believes have hurt the district's ability to help many students, particularly American Indians and those from poor families.
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School Board Election Reform in the News |
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More Transparency to School District Budgeting |
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In an effort to bring more financial expertise to the table and more transparency to the process of budgeting, the Rapid City Area School District has invited business and financial leaders to review the District's budget. You can read more about this effort in the Rapid City Journal |
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Requirements come without funding, school board members protest |
The following article was published in the Rapid City Journal on May 19, 2008. For the original article source please click here. Be sure to read Eric's Responses to the Readers in the Rapid Reply section following the article.
By Kayla Gahagan, Journal staff Monday, May 19, 2008
The Rapid City school board hand-delivered a letter to the State Board of Education Monday morning, protesting what they call unfunded mandates and asking the board to require the secretary of education to attach a price tag to all future mandates.
No Child Left Behind requirements have merit, said Rapid City school board member Eric Abrahamson, but they have weighed districts down with unnecessary protocols and paperwork.
Abrahamson, who will be at the end of his school board term in June and is running for the state Legislature, spearheaded a press conference across the hall from a board of education meeting at Western Dakota Technical Institute.
"We welcome them to Rapid City, but we want to send a message to them today," he said. |
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A quick google search of Eric Abrahamson will pull up the following Wikipedia Entery. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Abrahamson |
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