|
Get involved. Help the Phoenix Rise!
|
Help us change the way public schools are funded!
Join the coalition for a better education and funded mandates!
Speak out for the needs of the district!
Stop the downward spiral of public schools headed for bankruptcy!
|
|
Mission Statement
|
The purpose of the Whitman-Hanson Phoenix Project
is to work collaboratively with local, regional and state leaders to provide
adequate, equitable funding to ensure that the students in the Whitman-Hanson
Regional School District receive a high quality education. The work of the Phoenix
Project includes:
- Working with community leaders to find ways to share resources and save
local funds.
- Meeting with school committee members, selectmen, finance committee members
and members of the community to find ways to lobby effectively with the state
legislature to receive adequate state school funding for the Whitman-Hanson
District.
- Communicating with all constituents in the two towns in order to better
explain the financial challenges faced by the school district and the towns and
to gather support for adequate funding on the local level.
- Committing to creating a school system for the towns of Hanson and Whitman
that is effective, efficient and excellent and reflective of the goals and
values of the local communities.
|
|
Who We Are:
|
»
The Whitman Hanson Phoenix Project is a coalition of community members, administrators, parents, as well as local, regional and state elected officials to address educational funding.
»
It is our mission to ?rise up? from the ashes of unfunded mandates and budgetary woes to create an educational platform that is fairly and adequately funded.
»
We represent a myriad of interests, but are united by a common feeling that we are no longer satisfied with a band-aid solution to school funding.
»
We are in a unique position as a regional school district, but we are advocating for the improvement of the educational funding process across the state. All schools deserve funding that is adequate, equitable and predictable.
»
We oppose unfunded mandates and the continued use of Proposition 2 ½ overrides to fund our school budget.
»
We are committed to creating a school system that is effective, efficient, and excellent.
|
|
|
|
Meeting Dates
|
Next Meeting - Sept 08
Thank you for all you have done for the towns of Whitman and Hanson
this past school year!
The Phoenix Project Committee will reconvene in the fall.
A meeting date will be announced in September 2008.
W-H Phoenix Project will meet in the WHRHS Library
Agendas
|
|
Phoenix Phact #2
|
• Massachusetts now ranks 44th in the United States when it comes to funding local communities for public
education.
• Massachusetts major program of state aid to local and regional school districts is Chapter 70 funding.
|
| More Phacts ... |
| |
Legislative Breakfast
April 7, 2008 |
Suburban Coalition
Annual Legislative Breakfast
Monday, April 7th, 2008
9:00 am-11:30 am
Great Hall at
The State House
Beacon Hill |
| |
|
Share the Phoenix's flight!
|
Ready to print Phoenix
Project business
cards
(This Word file format
works with Avery Label #5371 - perforated business cards.)
|
| |
|
From the Headlines
|
Phoenix spreads wings
The Whitman-Hanson based education advocacy group, The Phoenix Project, has
been slowly unfurling its wings this past year, reaching out to neighboring ...
SouthShoreExpress
|
| |
|
