I'm Jerry Metcalf the school
board chair has this year
the students have been more focused and more than
they were last year although
it's wonderful to see this newfound energy and happiness
the impact of the pandemic on student learning
and social emotional well-being still lingers in
this video you learned about some of the innovative
ways our district as lifting student learning as well as
what's included in this year's budget proposal the
administration's fiscal responsible
and educationally sound budget
addresses our needs while decreasing indication
homestead tax rate
the Melting Pot District continues
to work towards increasing literacy and math proficiency
effectively meeting the social
National help the students in providing students with
more of a personalized learning opportunity
my name is Colleen Crowley
I'm one of the Early Childhood special educator and the
preschool program this year we've
had the opportunity to use a new curriculum
creative curriculum on one of its focus is
us is on literacy we often
will read books multiple times and
then we asked the students to retell the stories
and sequence the events of the stories we
make it more meaningful and fun by using props
I'm as well as visuals and these
are skills that we're looking for the students to grow and continue
using as they move into Elementary School
although the district continues to benefit
from the one-time after Grant funds to support additional services
in Reading Mass
playing in summer programming These funds
are only available for one more year as
a result the fy20 for proposed
budget includes three positions currently funded
through after these positions are
in elementary school reading specialist
a middle-level health teacher and a teacher
for the high school Innovation Center adding
these teachers to the general fund will address
the unique needs of our Learners and enhance
each school's educational program a significantly
high on Leslie Reed
I know what to do in fourth and I'm Lindsey Bolger and we
already reading specialist at Milton Elementary School we
have the pleasure of being in kindergarten
this year we are pushing into classrooms it's
very exciting we are meeting
student needs through a variety of different
structures we sometimes have a whole group lesson
we take small groups we work with targeted students
and our goal is to prevent future
reading Circle so that when they get into older grades
like 3rd 4th grade they no longer have
any reading difficulties
I'm finna antonovich on the flexible learning lab coordinator
for Milton Middle School in one of the things we introduced
this year we're clubs I'm students select
their clubs they can range from net games
to Gob to sewing and they
get to experience working with other students grades
528 and maybe learning something new is
Milton High School is
poised to continue building capacity for youth
voice and Leadership through the lens of three
establish advisory councils
in learning restorative practice and equity
and justice
of
the curriculum group here in Milton High School
sing on
teaching and the information
a better ways to pick their classes and
understand the curriculum that goes with them and so
far we've decided to interview a couple students of selected
electives that we think that
Rising Juniors and seniors will be interested
in so we're working on interviewing suit
and teachers to help other students better understand
the classes that they're taking I'm
Avery and we're with the restorative
practices group and our goals for
this year are to travel to the Tas
we're working on strengthening relationships and
also having difficult conversation so
we're
just trying to
awareness about the resources
that we have in school to
raise awareness about
the anonymous tip line and other
resources. Nelson has to offer the
operations Department here
in Milton. Talk to you about fy20
for and the budget really
have three challenges coming up for this year's number one health
insurance going up by twelve point
6% well don't like that but we've got
absorbed that cost somewhere also
for a special ed block funding grant our
Revenue coming in is going to be 4.9%
less than last year I had an increase
in the number of equal eyes pupils
were some things on the positive front State education
fund they threw some money for property
taxes and also because of the reappraisal rcla
went up to 107
but because of the factors of the CLA
and the State throwing money
property taxes the tax rate for f y 24
is actually expected to go down
by $0.01 we're going from one
point one 85721 point
17574 the tax
rate this year is estimated to go.
buy $0.01 and that of course is
just the education portion of your
tax rate is called your homestead right
hi my name is Jen Wilson I
am a school board trustee as well as the clerk
for the Milton Town School District
School Board during the 2021
to 2022 school year the Milton
Town School District was engaged in a facilities
Master planning process with truexcullins this
included a full evaluation
of the conditions of each of
and I'm visioning process to help track
next steps for the building projects
as a result of
our visioning process several projects were prioritised
for Milton High School including new
energy-efficient windows that were paid for
capital reserve fund and New Heating
and cooling air ventilation system for the classroom
the auditorium and the library all
of this was paid for from
Recently awarded competitive Grant
funds due to the condition
Milton Elementary and Middle School located on
Herrick Avenue it was decided to develop
a committee to look more closely at options
for a major renovation or
rebuild the committee will
bring proposals to the Milton Town School District
Emma Nelson Community further this frightened for
the future and
future many Community with your
support the work we are doing today will result in
bright future for our town Tuesday March 7th
is tell meeting day if you want
to go earlier by mail he can call the town office at 893-6655
to request your
ballot