School Choice (part 1)

Metco Programs have, for a long time, given a legal opportunity for students to enter publicly funded school settings outside of their residential district. In each instance, the host community is paid an agreed amount for tuition based upon the rate of cost per student in the host school district. Why then, if a non resident student chooses to attend a Milton school as a non resident and the Milton school committee deems that there is available space and the candidate has an acceptable reason for wanting to do so, can’t this school committee make a similar tuition arrangement. The student would then be legal and the town would save much time, money and effort ferreting out illegal students. Further, it would be a bargain for the city of Boston. The rate per student in Boston is about $12,872 and the cost to attend a school in Milton is about $8,378 per student. Currently, each student attending a Milton school illegally is costing the Milton taxpayer $8,378 to say little of the labor cost in handling these situations...

There is an old adage that says, If you can’t (won’t) beat ‘em, join ‘em.

BLOG - Basic Logic Of Gop

Many internet surfers believe that the term "blog" derives from the truncated version of "weblog." We beg to differ. Or perhaps, we blog to differ. At the Milton Republican Town Committee, we believe blog is an acronym for Basic Logic Of the Gop. And so, let the word go forth, from this time and place, that we will dedicate this space to the proposition that all blogs are not created equal. That this blog will be of the people of Milton, by the people of Milton and for the people of Milton. So help me GOP. In other words, we are going to use this blog to address the national issues of the day and ground them in the events of our town. We have laid out a series of topics of interest to us and hopefully, to you, the citizens of Milton. We will present those topics and our opinions of them to you each week in the hope that we will peak your interest, generate discussion via comments, establish this site as the place you go for local political information and possibly, hopefully, win you over to our views. We will identify our writers in the same way that we would introduce ourselves on the street corner so that you know who is speaking. We will be polite in our presentation and request that your responses are submitted in the same manner. We will post any return comment that is presented with civility, regardless of its conformity with the views of the original author. With that long winded introduction filled with the mixed quotations of famous Presidents, we present our first submission. Enjoy!

Republican Town Committee Meetings

November 27, 2007
Now that Fall has sprung, so to speak, the Milton Ma Republican Town Committee has resumed its schedule of monthly meetings. Our next meeting is scheduled for 11/27/07 at its usual location in the basement of Town Hall at 7:30 PM. Meetings last until about 9:00, unless debate heats up and then who knows.

At our most recent meeting on October 16, the committee covered a range of topics including accepting nominations for the State Committee Man position for our senatorial district. BTW, all that is required are 50 valid signatures by November 9, 2007 for your nomination to be accepted. Voting occurs during the Presidential Primary election in March.

We also committed ourselves to regular postings on this blog. The committee has prepared an aggressive list of topics where we will express our opinions. Our goal is to link key topics at the international, federal and state level to the local interests of Milton's citizen's. Without giving away the store, our topics range from Healthcare reform of town employees to advocating customer focused schools to considering school choice within Milton. We hope that this blog will become a place for Milton citizen's to turn for local political information and specifically to learn what being a Republican means at the local level here in Milton.

See you in November.