{"id":740,"date":"2018-12-10T16:53:10","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harbd\/?p=740"},"modified":"2019-08-23T20:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T00:55:36","slug":"wayne-county-regional-enhancement-education-millage-proposal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harbd\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"Wayne County Regional Enhancement Education Millage Proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\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=\"500\" height=\"375\" 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>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 generate approximately $6.2 million from Dearborn but the District will receive $7.8 million in additional funding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harbd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harbd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harbd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harbd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harbd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harbd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harbd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harbd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harbd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/harbd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}