78% of our $211 million budget for 2011 is spent on salary, benefit, and pension? That's a very big piece of the pie.
We must make cuts in our budget NOW rather than giving already burdened taxpayers a double digit increase to amass bucks for the coming tax cap when spending will be limited. Is it even legal?
We have been so extravagant with contracts that we CANNOT now afford them. We have gone from educating our children and are now in the "people business," as our Superintendent says. That's got to change. Let's make it about educating our kids, rather than an out of control monster.
Teachers who left the system ten years ago would not recognize what Long Island school districts look like NOW.
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