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About one-hundred students, parents, and teachers met at the Capital to ask for increased funding the largest unaccredited school district in the St. Louis region. |
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Wrap: The commotion at the Capital results from the current state of funding for the Normandy school district.
Currently before the legislature is an appropriation for five-million dollars to fund the tuition costs of students leaving Normandy.
Mayor of Greendale Monica Huddleston says she is concerned with the costs of sending students to other school districts.
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| Run Time: | 00:09 |
| Description: "We have been, in essence, asking the legislature to appropriate more funds to take up for the shortfall." | |
Huddleston says Normandy would be out of money before the end of the school year if more funds are not appropriated.
Reporting from the state Capital, I'm Jeffrey Militzer.
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More than one-hundred supporters of the Normandy school district rallied at the Capital for increased funding. |
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Wrap: Kids, parents, teachers, and school administrators met with legislators at the Capital asking for more money for the Normandy school district.
Superintendent of the Normandy School District Ty McNichols says cutting the cost Normandy has to pay for transfering out of the unaccredited district should be one of the top priorities.
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| Description: "Any district that's in our situation will be on the road to bankruptcy if there is no tuition fix." | |
Normandy has to pay seven to nine thousand dollars more per student than they have the funding for.
Reporting from the state Capital, I'm Jeffrey Militzer.
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As legislators debate funding student transfers from Normandy, a group of students are asking for more money for them to stay. |
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Wrap: Kids and parents from the Normandy school district came to the statehosue to urge for more money for students to stay at Normandy school district.
During the meeting with kids and parents Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal supported appropriating more funding to Normandy.
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| Run Time: | 00:11 |
| Description: "And I want to urge every single group of people to do, is to put our children first. Our children are first." | |
Currently before the legislator is an appropriation to fund the kids going out of Normandy.
Reporting from the state Capital, I'm Jeffrey Militzer.
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As students flee the Normandy school district, there is a group of kids that want to stay. |
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Wrap: Kids and parents are asking their legislators for more money so their kids can stay at Normandy.
During the meeting Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal put the context in terms of race.
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| Run Time: | 00:11 |
| Description: "One of the problems we have as black people is that someone tells us 'no' and we accept it. We have to stop accepting at and fight for what we deserve." | |
Currently before the legislator is an appropriation to fund the kids going out of Normandy.
Reporting from the state Capital, I'm Jeffrey Militzer.