GEORGETOWN - Topics such as budget and standardized tests listed on list Monday evening when County Georgetown School Board candidates were interviewed about what they would do for the school district.
Candidate forum Georgetown League of women voters was intended for candidates in all races contested in Georgetown, but in accordance with the rules of the League, it prohibits democratic incumbents Vida Miller, who participated to participate because Kevin Ryan, his Republican challenger for House seat 108, l.c. has not attended as the required group.
Instead, candidates to five school boards had the stage to themselves one of the greatest problems, members of the School Board will have to tackle if elected, is the district budget.
All of the candidates said they would not like to limit the size of the classes, but with a deficit of 3.5 million estimated with the loss of federal funding stimulus only members have to offer a few ideas for what is possible to reduce the budget.
Benny Elliott, a member of the grand jury and a vice President said any personal district and programmes should be looked at.
"We have to discover what is most valuable", he said, and who are determined to be less useful posts or programs would be "cut or combined."
Jim Dumm, another Member of the Board of Directors in General and the current President of the Council, said the district will have to start watching extracurriculars cutting and athletics.
He also said that should increase the size of classes be watched, it would start at the secondary level.
"We cut the graisse.Il was perhaps a little more," he said. "" ""But we are soon going to get to the meat and shortly we will have to cut out the bones.?
Pat DeLeone, a candidate for the seat of the District 2, said it supports the idea of half-time teachers and also to examine the number of days teachers are paid.
"We are going to do the best that we can without affecting students as much as we can," she says.
Johnny Wilson, a candidate for one of two seats to the grand, said the district must look at other sources of funding such as grants and enjoy as much as possible. ""Search and see where the money," he said.
The current Board of Directors member 2 David Curry, was present for some initial questions, which was felt the candidates on teachers ' teaching to the test.
Curry says he understands that it must be a "measure bar" to compare schools throughout the State, but added, "I would like to just teachers may teach."
DeLeone, a retired health sciences professor said she loves the State standards and not feel like they do teachers teach in a test.
"Help students learn these standards," says.
But she said that the standards are high. ""I didn't know that records when I was in ninth grade," she told the standards of the fifth year.
Elliott called testing a "necessary evil", and said: "if we do not have a standard, then each district would be different.
Tests should simply be used to measure where a student is academically and not anything else, he said.
Dumm said he thinks that some tests more diagnostics that are most useful for do not get enough attention.
Wilson said that it supports the standard system, but is against teachers "teaching to the test" and should concentrate on "of the child, prepared for the test."
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