{"id":51,"date":"2016-11-06T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T21:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/danieltaylorpiano\/2016\/11\/06\/wayne-county-regional-enhancement-education-millage-proposal-2\/"},"modified":"2016-11-06T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T21:53:10","slug":"wayne-county-regional-enhancement-education-millage-proposal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/danieltaylorpiano\/2016\/11\/06\/wayne-county-regional-enhancement-education-millage-proposal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne County Regional Enhancement Education Millage Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>School districts in Wayne County have placed a proposal on the November 8<sup>th<\/sup> ballot to provide added funding for our schools. It is the \u201cRegional Enhancement Millage Proposal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RESA Millage Presentation from October Board Meeting\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/He8P0xBzeGg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If approved by the entire county, the 2 mil proposal will generate approximately $6.2 million from Dearborn but the District will receive $7.8 million in additional funding for our schools.\u00a0 Money would go to local schools starting this year and the millage expires after six years.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The proposal would cost a homeowner with a home value of $150,000 (Taxable value of $75,000) about $15 per month.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Education and Administration have discussed possible uses for the funds which could include items such as: recruitment and retention of staff, maintenance of district buildings, technology, improve school programs, and supporting classroom and instructional needs.<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts to Consider &#8211; Wayne County Stats<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Percentage of students living in poverty in Wayne County is 43% vs.17% statewide. (In Dearborn, almost 70% of our students are receiving Free and Reduced Lunch).<\/p>\n<p>English Language Learner Students: 2010 \u2013 20,766, 2015 \u2013 30,087 (ELL students in Dearborn number around 10,000; that is 1\/3 of the ELL students in the county.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information go to \u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resa.net\/millage\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.resa.net\/millage\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1478555515048000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFirK08DExfsfv8SDZf4Zghy6q5Pg\"><strong>resa.net\/millage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; School districts in Wayne County have placed a proposal on the November 8th ballot to provide added funding for our schools. It is the \u201cRegional Enhancement Millage Proposal.\u201d If approved by the entire county, the 2 mil proposal will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/danieltaylorpiano\/2016\/11\/06\/wayne-county-regional-enhancement-education-millage-proposal-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/danieltaylorpiano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/danieltaylorpiano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/danieltaylorpiano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/danieltaylorpiano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/danieltaylorpiano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/danieltaylorpiano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/danieltaylorpiano\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/danieltaylorpiano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/danieltaylorpiano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/danieltaylorpiano\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}