San Mateo County Times/Margaret Lavin, 12/31/12. "Margaret Lavin: We can be proud of progress in 2012."
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Let's
lift a cup to celebrate a few of San Mateo County's educational acts of
kindness. We have good reason to be proud of our progress in 2012.
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| An alternative: cost savings school house |
Taxpayers
passed many measures throughout the county to improve schools and our
community.
Measure A increases the sales tax throughout the county by
half a cent for the next 10 years to help fund child abuse protection
programs, 911 dispatch, fire prevention and after-school library and
homework programs, among other county services. Burlingame School
District will have an additional $56 million to renovate classrooms
because of the approval of its school bond measure.
Jefferson Union High
School District will have $41.9 million and Jefferson Elementary School
will have $67.5 million to improve schools. San Carlos will receive $72
million in bond money. Measure W will generate about $1.7 million per
year for Redwood City students for the next five years.
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With the
progress we have made to secure our children's future and thereby
improve our own lives, we adhere to Benjamin Franklin's wise words, "Be
always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let
each New Year find you a better man." (250+ years later we might say, "... let each year find you to be a better person.") Read article.
Related - The Franklin Institute, Benjamin Franklin.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
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