Updates of Middletown Happenings from Vice Chairmen Adam Hayn & Nigel Macon-Wilson
February 27, 2025
Tomorrow is the deadline for the US Department of Education’s directive reevaluating Federal funds under the direction of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. We still have the DEI program in our schools. Say what you want about the program’s merits (merit is the operative word here), but, the Department of Education is a significant source of funding for MPS. Anticipated grants for this current year from the Federal Government in the Superintendent’s proposed budget was $3,612,103.22 (numbers always seemed to be buried deep in these documents). It’s a small percentage of the budget…but it is still 3.6 million dollars. What if that funding goes away? Will Middletown tax payers be on the hook for that because we want to play chicken with the Federal Government?
Connecticut, on the whole, receives over a billion dollars from the Federal Government. 8.2% of its funds (couple year old data sourced from https://usafacts.org/answers/what-percentage-of-public-school-funding-comes-from-the-federal-government/state/connecticut/.) That’s a lot of money the state will have to get from somewhere else…I don’t make that much money. – Adam