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Thank you Gene. I don't know why a similar posting wasn't made for use during the city council meetings. Now that the council has once again under-funded the schools while having a $30 Million increase in annual revenues over the last 5 years, the school are forced to make cuts. If the city had cut their bloated budget and sent an appropriate amount to the schools, the programs would not need to be cut.

I have heard already that the ALAP program teachers have already been given an involuntary transfer to the regular classroom, this means ALAP has already been cut and they are just waiting on the School Committee to vote on it. Cutting the ALAP teachers saves about $80K- $100K. The students will lose so much more.

I guarantee that you will lose so much more if you cut this program. Parents will pull their students from Warwick Schools and the State Funding will leave with them, thanks to the unbalanced State Funding Formula.

When the parents pull their kids from Warwick Schools, the Warwick school scores will drop and the State will come in and take over the schools. At that point, it will be Central Falls right here in Warwick and you can thank the Mayor and City Council for putting us in this position. The State will throw all the contracts out too.

It is not too late to go to the unions and work out a deal to save these valuable programs. Ask Karen Bachus to talk with Jim Ginolfi, it is my understanding she visits him frequently and give him all the info the unions need. Have her ask him to talk with the School Committee to save programs as he said he would talk about helping save Gorton.

As a last resort, Here is a plan. If you are an ALAP parent or a parent of a music student, keep your students home from school during the mornings of NECAP. Bring them in AFTER NECAP testing for their classes. The School NECAP Scores will plummet and the entire school system will have to be reviewed. What do kids learn during NECAP testing... nothing!

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