This article shows how too many of our legislators think-that schools have plenty of funding and the ALEC agenda reforms are what we need, while Goddard Superintendent Justin Henry says, “Four years ago, we took some steps across our district to respond to the recession.”…Like many districts, Goddard cut programs, increased class sizes, shortened the school year, pulled down cash reserves, continued charging for full-day kindergarten and raised fees, some significantly. Goddard’s technology fee for seventh- through 12th-graders in 2011, for example, was $25 a year; in 2012, it went up to $95 a year.

“‘Now we’re probably looking at doing the same things over again. Four years later, we’re in the same place,’ Henry said. ‘Where do you make more cuts after you’ve already done this?'”

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