The General Assembly will not approve Bev’s proposed $17.7 million (recurring) and $21.2 million (nonrecurring) appropriations for elementary school student diagnostic and handheld device something or other.? Also do not expect to see $1.4 million for high school diagnostics and intervention in the final budget.
Bev’s budget sets aside $1.5 million (nonrecurring) for Joe Hackney’s pet project, dropout prevention grants. I believe that the money is better spent elsewhere.? Same goes for the $500,000 (nonrecurring) appropriation for the New Schools Project.
