Smithfield Public Schools — Enrollment and Financial Analysis After reading, reviewing and evaluating financial/budget proposals for several years, I decided to compile an analysis of enrollment associated with the Smithfield Public Schools. Introduction Originally, The analysis compiled enrollment data complied by RIDE for the October 1 census; which every educational institution (that receives Federal funds)…
Month: January 2022
Route 44 & the EGO, Mineral Spring or Route 2? Part II
The Fallout A continuation of Part I from this post. You can view Part 1 by clicking here. What Now? “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 1948 (paraphrased) In a recent article in the Observer, So what could happen? Well, look at the EGO…
OurEducationSystem — Additional Research Points
This post is a supplement to another post on Our Education System – The Past, Present and Future!? You can access the original post by clicking here. Additional Research Points Evidence is mounting that there is a link between social media and depression. In several studies, teenage and young adult users who spend the most…
Our Education System – The Past, Present and Future!?
Bullying 2022 There was an interesting article in the January 13 edition of the Observer entitled Bullying jumps to pre-pandemic rates in Smithfield schools. It should not be terribly shocking that as students “returned” back to school, this behavior has resumed to pre-pandemic levels. We should not be surprised by any trajectories in any statistics…
Route 44 & the EGO, Mineral Spring or Route 2? Part I
Or Does History Repeat Itself? History Introduction With all that is quietly occuring in Smithfield (multi-family residential development, single-family housing starts, commercial development, “economic development activities), the recent article in the Observer was cause to think. Looking at the history of Route 44 since the early 1990, it is fascinating to read the litany of…
Minimum Wage — Public Policy or Family Principles? Part II
This post is a continuation from Part I. If you wish to read the first post, click here. There are several columns in this report as follows: Analysis Data and Methodology Two data points were gathered from 1938 to 2021; Federal minimum wage and inflation rate (Consumer Price Index). The analysis was rather simple –…
Minimum Wage — Public Policy or Family Principles? Part I
There has been alot of political, economic and business conversations about the minimum wage as well as a new term, “Living Wage”. While this blog attempts to discuss local and State issues affecting the Town of Smithfield, I believed that this article would be interesting to place here. Introduction The first minimum wage was enacted…
