Letter to the Editor: Measures W, X Will Make a Meaningful Difference for Children

By Maria Chesley Fisk | Published on 06.01.2012 11:42 p.m.

All children deserve a state-of-the-art education, and Santa Barbara can and should offer such an education through its public schools.

Measures W and X give our community the opportunity to help by supplementing the unpredictable and increasingly disappointing funding from the state and federal government. These measures will allow the school district to maintain music, arts and theater programs; lower the teacher-student ratio; increase math, science, technology and foreign language education; and provide computers and other technology tools.

Property owners would contribute $54 per year, and pooled together between now and 2016 these funds will make a meaningful difference for Santa Barbara’s children.

If you, like me, have not gotten around to mailing in your ballot early, please head to the polls on Tuesday and vote for Measures W and X.

Maria Chesley Fisk, Ph.D.
Santa Barbara

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» lou segal on 06.02.12 @ 07:44 AM

“These measures will allow the school district to maintain music, arts and theater programs; lower the teacher-student ratio; increase math, science, technology and foreign language education; and provide computers and other technology too”

This is a gross exaggeraton. All of this is totally unsubstantiated. I looked at the website and it will mean a couple more teachers for 14 schools. I don’t think a few more teachers for the entire SB School system is going to result in anything close to what the author is suggesting. It looks like the advocates for these Measures are getting desperate, when they have to mislead the public to manipulate them to raise their own taxes. Don’t do it.

» noleta res on 06.03.12 @ 10:18 AM

Sorry Lou but I think it’s you that is getting desperate, because you keep depending on hyperbole and exaggeration to make your point. Is it “a couple more teachers” or is it “a few more”? How many more teachers would it take to make a difference in you opinion? Isn’t it true that we already have the current staffing level from Measures H and I, so that we’re really not talking about “adding” a lot of teachers with Measures W and X, but just maintaining the current levels?

» lou segal on 06.03.12 @ 12:17 PM

I stand by statement. This letter is BS.

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