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Blue Ridge Parents Get The Word
By Ted Brewster

A fair number of people turned out for a meeting of the Blue Ridge Parent Council on March 15. The organization, formed only late last year, is rapidly gaining momentum, with an active Facebook page and meetings that attract important speakers and foster lively communication.

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SCSD Faces Budget Crisis

There was grim news at the March 16 meeting of the Susquehanna Community School Board. Although the state and federal budgets have not yet been finalized, indications are that the district will see a drastic reduction in funding. The governor’s budget proposes a cut in education funding, back to the levels of 2005-06, a reduction to the district of $918,814. That amounts to a decrease in funding of $1,018 per student, the highest per-student rate in the county, in what is the poorest district in the county. Superintendent Bronson Stone commented that the funding formula is broken. He hoped that the legislature and the governor would work together to find a common sense solution. The federal budget is not yet available, so it remains to be seen what impact it will have.

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