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DOE: Lynn to receive $2.6M in Title 1 money

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April 10, 2009 by [email protected]

LYNN – Lynn Public Schools will receive $2.8 million of the $163 million in Title 1 education money released by Gov. Deval Patrick to communities yesterday, according to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education web site.
While the city had been expecting to see this Title 1 money come aboard for some time, city leaders say they have received no official word on Patrick’s latest allocation of President Barack Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds.
“As of (Friday morning) I have not seen anything official from the state,” said School Committee Chairman and Mayor Edward J. Clancy Jr. “What is official? Something that tells us how we can use the money. This is good news and we welcome it, but until I see something official we have to be careful not to spend this money.”
Patrick has already announced stimulus money for special education and local aid to the school department, but the actual amount of money Lynn could receive is still subject to change.
Title 1 funds are allocated based on the poverty level in each community, measured by the number of students at each school who qualify under the state’s free and reduced lunch program.
If the numbers released by the state remain the same, Lynn’s $2,681,010 would be the highest payout of any area school district.
Also on the list are Revere, $920,320; Peabody, $271,665; Saugus, $134,696; and Swampscott, $51,451.
One area of question surrounding stimulus money is how districts will be allowed to use it. Administrators in Lynn are anticipating having to fill out grants and outline programs to the DOE before they could cash any checks from the state.
Superintendent Catherine Latham and her staff have been working throughout the week to put the department’s budget together, but are still missing a bottom line from the state, which has prevented them from establishing a similar bottom line for the city.
Latham has said she is also reluctant to rely on stimulus money at this point, even though the federal funds would go a long way in reducing the hit the schools will take in this economy.
Even with money from the stimulus package and other state level allocations the school department is still looking at the most slender budget in more than a decade, which could mean sweeping program cuts and painful staff layoffs at every level.
With the House of Representatives set to release its budget Tuesday, Clancy says he is not putting any stock in numbers being thrown around, knowing from experience that nothing is official until the state budget is signed.
“The House is set to release the budget Tuesday, but you have to be careful so you don’t end up spending fool’s gold,” he said. “Anything done prior to Tuesday is premature. The federal stimulus dollars will make a difference; there is no question about that. I’m excited to know that it is available. But until I see that detail you have to hold your powder.”

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