What ProActive thinking can do --- Regional School's Rankings

Our children’s education is important. Doing a quick search into the ranking of our area schools (compared to schools statewide); this came up. This is by no means a perfect comparison. This is alarming and disheartening. Our schools are constantly struggling with budget issues and having a hard time financially. Been thinking hard about the students who live in this region who are struggling to make the grade. If our natural resources can help us, we should invest in their future and given them a deserving break. We need to be engaged in a dialogue about how we can incorporate natural gas production safely into our community and not calling for an outright ban.

If the potential exists for us to help our county’s schools budgets through income from natural gas production isn’t it something that should be considered?

Look at our rankings and consider how these schools could benefit from natural gas production taxes:

(Out of 2096)			Students	ELA	Comb	Change
356	Milford Central School	Milford Central School District	458	56	125.7	214 up
379	Cooperstown Middle School	Cooperstown Central School District	218	55.5	123.8	47 down
510	Worcester School	Worcester Central School District	396	47	110.7	up
725	Schenevus Central School	Schenevus Central School District	372	47.5	86.2	555 down
1570	Cherry Valley-Springfield Elementary School	Cherry Valley-Springfield Central School District	315	45	92.7	147 down