The BUC School is a different kind of school. It encourages kids from seventh to eighth grade to study and be able to function better in their adult lives. This is what we call the Big Picture” School. Kids don’t just memorize facts from textbooks and later forget all about them afterwards.
Don’t ask, don’t tell. That is the motto of the Oswego County Legislature. It’s just a little bit different with them it is more, if you don’t ask we won’t tell. If you do ask, it is like you just committed a capital crime. Let me explain if I can in as few words as possible.
The Oswego County Environmental Management Council would like to thank all the individuals, families and groups that participated in our Earth Week Cleanups, helping make our county greener and cleaner. The activities show a pride and caring of community.
Your simple business transaction with a Girl Scout is helping her to build a lifetime of real world skills including money management, decision making, goal setting, business ethics and communications. All funds earned stay local. Each troop determines how to spend their cookie profits and many will travel and experience camp together. And they’ll be investing in the community.
Connected to our biggest trading partner, Canada, and to the rest of the world through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway, the area is our nation’s manufacturing and agricultural powerhouse. Taken as a whole, the economy of the eight Great Lakes States and the two Canadian Great Lakes provinces represents the fourth largest economy in the world, behind only the United States, China and Japan.
We hope that district administrators are considering the long-term benefits of supporting the Buc, in terms of the continued anticipated gains of this program, and the way it stands out as an exceptional school and a model for student-centered learning. It is our fervent hope to continue supporting the exemplary work of the Buc well into the future.
Financial plans for public schools are built on a delicate balance between reasonable expenditures, and revenue from state aid and taxes. In finding balance with the proposed budget for the 2014-2015 school year, the district leaders and members of the board of education have worked diligently to craft a spending plan that is efficient yet supportive of our educational mission. Over the next several weeks, as your superintendent of schools, I will be presenting the budget to various groups and answering questions to inform our community of the budget proposal.
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