As I reported yesterday many of the Racine Journal Times weblog postings to The Schools Report blogs have been critical of CARE - Coalition to Actively Reform Education. I feel that the JT education reporter, Brent Killackey, has not fairly represented CARE’s positive message of accountability. CARE advocates having a measurable plan, both academic and financial, before supporting the upcoming June 6th referendum. CARE has suggested that RUSD make cost reductions that do not adversely affect the classroom be taken promptly.
CARE states: “District management has told the Board that the district could save at least $2MM a year with no impact on students. These savings should have been taken in prior years. The district needs to bring its costs under control and make its expenditures transparent.”
Why is this message of proper use of tax dollars viewed as anti-education? If the leadership of RUSD refuses to make its “expenditures transparent” to the taxpayers of eastern Racine County, how can you or I in good faith vote “yes” to more of the same on June 6th?
The much-heralded Independent Commission on Education’s report published in January 2006 also stated that the district has several “not-fully-realized” opportunities for revenue enhancement and cost-control measures. Why is it that when a citizen’s advocacy group like CARE promotes for proper use of tax dollars they are viewed as anti-education, whereas when the business leaders of greater Racine do so, they are embraced by the community?
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