| Montgomery County, PA | May 19, 2009 Election |
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Promoting Fiscal Responsibility While Improving Educational QualityBy Melissa GilbertCandidate for School Director; Lower Merion School District |
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As School Directors, our priority will be to keep our school taxes as low as possible while improving the curriculum and educational opportunities for our students. Act 1 increases the emphasis for school board directors to use school district's resources efficiently, but we cannot rely on the limits of Act 1 to serve as our primary guide when setting budgets. Just as our school district should strive to provide the best possible education for all of our children, our school district operations should set the standard for efficiency. As School Directors, we will evaluate all educational spending to determine which programs and expenditures are providing appropriate benefit to our students. We will invest in new curricula and state-of-the-art programs to supplant older initiatives that are no longer providing excellent outcomes for our students. We will benchmark our administrative spending against peer districts to understand areas where we are already efficient and to identify areas for additional study. Just as we believe that new and creative curricula and programs can be implemented to drive educational improvements, we believe that there are also new and creative ways that the school board can work with the administration to improve school district operations. |
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