Dick Batchelor Supports Transferring School Funds Out Of District 5

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Category: Politics

Published: Monday, 25 August 2014 20:41

In 2002 Dick Batchelor said that he supported the school board's half penny tax because he supported district 5 schools that needed to be rebuilt and refurbished. Even after receiving hundreds of millions of dollars of our tax money, the school board and Dick Batchelor supported the illegal closing of Richmond Heights Elementary School and they are in the planning stages of closing Jones High School and other District 5 schools by limiting enrollments.

They have already set the zoning to bus district 5 students miles away in support of other

districts. Each student represents about $3400 going from our area to theirs. That is over 30 million dollars in the last 10 years leaving our community, thanks in part to Dick Batchelor.

Dick Batchelor is now asking to extend the 2002 school board half penny tax for another 10 years. He wants us to pay for schools that we can't use. Does this makes sense to you?
Vote NO on the half penny sales tax extension and tell Dick Batchelor to quit it.

Gov. Rick Scott removed over 1 billion dollars from the state's education's budget.  This action was supported by the Orange County School Board.  The board recouped some of these funds by closing schools and canceling programs like music and physical education. The board also zoned some District 5 students to other schools which also moved funds from our area to other areas.  Vote 'NO' on the half penny tax extension and demand that the board and the governor fix this mess.