Franklin (MA) Matters

This session of the radio show shares this special episode of Chalkboard Chat with  Franklin School Committee Chair Dave Callaghan and former School Committee Chair Dr Anne Bergen. We met to record in the Franklin TV & Public Radio studio on Monday, April 22, 2024.  Our conversation was a discussion around the school and Town budget issues in advance of the joint School Committee and Town Council meeting April 24 at 7 PM.  During our conversation we address the key topics of the rationale for the current school budget as “level service plus”the history behind the school budget cuts over the years (and resulting declining in academic performance)teachers and school personnel still providing a heroic effort in the face of challenges rising special education costs and the creative inhouse programs saving the district (and taxpayers millions of dollars)the ‘old’ classroom is not today’s classroom, how the schools are telling that storyredistricting status, fixing the holes i