ansonia letter

8/20/2019 Ansonia Letter

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lobbyist

for

the students

of

our

state.

As

you

are

well

aware,

our

public

schools

face

amyriad

of

challenges

as

they

adapt

to meet

the

demands

of the

global

economy,

their

changing

demographics,

and

accountability

reform

initiatives.

As

we have

conversations

throughout

Connecticut

about

the

latest

reforms

in K-12

education,

we

must

also

talk

about

our

investment

in

public

edueation.

The

state

and

our local

communities'arc

citical

shareholders

in

our

public

education

system.

Here in

Ansonia

we have collaborated

as

a

Board of Education along

with

our Board of

Alderman, Mayor,

our

State

Legislator,

and

our

State

Senator.

Our

rationale

behind

this

is

to

protect

our

mutual

investment

and

make

sure

that

our public

schools

are

healthy

and vibrant,

geared

for

the future

and

preparing

students

for tomorrow's

jobs.

Local property

taxpayers

and

the

state

have

a

partnership

in

funding

public

education

as

both have

a

stake

in

a

high-quality

public

education

system.

However,

in

recent

years,

as

the

state has

been stepping

up

its

demands

for

account

ability,

it

has

been reducing

its

financial

contribution,

leaving

a

greater

share

of the

burden

on

properly

taxpayers

as

well

as

grant

funded

items.

We

are dangerously

close

to

being

unable

to

provide

our

sfudents

with the

sound,

basic

education

that

is

guaranteed

to them

by the

State

Constitution.

This

year's Ansonia

High

School

Valedictorian,

Pablo

Suarez,

will

attend

Yale

University

in the

fa1l.

While Ansonia

has

sent

other

students

on

to

Ivy

League

schools,

Fablo's

story

is

an example

9f

what

we, the community

of

Ansonia,

the

State

of

Connecticut,

and

the

United

States

of

America,

can

accomplish

for

our children.

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Need

Your

Help

Education

is

expensive,

Special

Education

is

even

more

expensive,

and,

relying

on Ansonia's

property

taxes

to pay

the

bi1l

is

not

sustainable.

This

September

the

anticipated

cuts

in

our budget

wiil

make

the

education

that

launched

Pablo

Suatez's

future

impossibie

to

provide

to

Aasonia's

children.

How

do we

fund

our

school

system

without

bankrupting

our

cifi,?

According

to the

reporl

prepared

for

R.epresentative

Bruce

Morris

@-Norwalk),

in

January,

2A$,

Ansonia

Board

of

Education

(BOE)

is

"underfunded"

by

260/o,

or

$5.7

millio

nfor

2Ol4

-

2015,

and

has

been "underfunded"

since

2008.

The

report,

attached,

compares

the Education

Cost

Sharing

(ECS)

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We are

writing

to

ask for

your

help,

both

in

your

role as

Governor

of

the

State

of

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grant

amount

that towns

actually

received

to the

ECS formulatarget

amowrt for

FY 2014

-

20t5.

h

found

that 119

towns

are

"underfunded"

and 43

towns

are

"overfunded."

Special

Needs

Costs for

Special

Education

continues

to rise

as

increasing

numbers

of children

need

these

programs.

At the

beginning

of the school

year,

September 2014,

there

were 430

special needs

students

in

Ansonia;

at

the

end

of the

year,

Ansonia

BOE

estimates

that

number will

grow

to

485.

To

put

this

into

perspective,

our

special needs

students

make

up 12Yo

of

the

student

population

and

account

for

32Yo

of

the

budget.

Ansonia BOE

estimates

that

this

program

is

underfunded

as well

-

by

$400,000

from

the

State

of Connecticut

and

$7.6

million

from the federal government.

If

our

schools

were

fully

funded:

If

the

State

of

Connecticut

followed

the Education

Cost

Sharing Grant

formula,

and the

State

and

Federal Government

properly

funded

our

special

needs

children,

Ansonia's

Board

of

Education

would

have

had

an additional

$13.7

million

in the 2014-15

budget.

That additional

$13.7

million

would make

the

following

classes

and opportunities possible

for

Ansonia's

children:

K-3:

'

2teachers

in

every

class room

to ensure

all

students

read

by

grade

3

'

Ali

day kindergarten

ful1y

funded

(current

State funding

will

be

going

away)

K-8:

,

2 new

Science

Lab

classes

for

elementary

students

.

Media

classes

for

all

elementary

and

middle

school

students

.

Afterschool

and

summer

school

programs

'

Science/engineering/technology

programs

for

middle school

students

'

After

school

instrumental

music

to

prepare

for

the

high

school

program

8-12:

r

Students

able

to

take

SAT's at no cost

.

Field trips

to

explore

Career

choices

.

Advanced Piacement

(College

Prep)

.

AP

Economics

.

Language

.

Spanish

for

all

students

grade

K-8

.

Chinese

for

grade

8-12

We know

the

problems

facing

Ansonia

are not

solely

your

responsibility

to solve;

but we

can't

wait

two

or

three

years,

out

school

district

won't

survive

that long.

However,

we

don't

know

what

more

we

can do as

a district

and

as a city.

We invite

you

to

come

down

to Ansonia

for

a meeting

with

our

team



in

order

to

discuss

our

problems

and

to

arrive

at

solutions.

Please,

Governor

Malloy,

please

join

us

in

August

2015

to

begin

a conversation

on

how

to

continue

to deliver

on

our

promise.

Once

again,

we

applaud

you

for

taking

on

Ansonia

Public

School

District

need

you.

date

for

us

to

meet

as

a

team.

the

role

of

students'

lobbyist.

Right

now,

the

students

of

the

we

anxiously

await

hearing

back

from you

on

a

convenient

Sincerely,

Board

of

Edueation

or-

I

c-

&cif

Mayor

Charles

Stowe

Board

of

Alderman

Board

of Alderm*n

{

Representative

Linda

GenLile

Senator

Joseph

Crisco



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