Petition to Increase School Funding for Attleboro Public Schools.

The mission of the Attleboro Public Schools is “to develop and deliver relevant learning experiences that engage, challenge, and inspire all students to maximize their unique potential and improve our world”.

 Our Mission is a promise that our leaders, Attleboro Public Schools and the Community made to our students and our educators. The entire community was involved in the writing of this mission. Students, teachers, administrators, parents, grandparents and friends believe in this mission. It is our duty to deliver this promise to our children, to the community… How can we hold true to the promise of this mission with the proposed cuts that are looming in our future? We simply cannot.

Our children and educators deserve fully staffed and funded schools that provide them with the necessary resources to provide exemplary education. We will not stand by and allow budget cuts and layoffs to over 60 educators resulting in larger, already overcrowded classrooms, to happen and be able to provide the education that is deserved and promised! As residents of Attleboro, it is our duty to hold our politicians, at both a local and state level, and school committee accountable in highly prioritizing and funding education to ensure that our children are provided with the necessary tools to become flourishing members of our community and society as a whole.

Better schools are the turning point and center of a great city. Quality schools lead to higher property values, less crime, and better health of the community, as referenced by a School Committee Member during the April 11, 2016 school committee meeting, while noting past studies throughout the country. Communities whose leaders have made education a priority and have flourishing and properly funded schools (example:  Mansfield and Sharon) which have a trickle down effect of higher property values, higher median income and are more desirable communities.

By supporting this petition you are appealing to our State Representatives, mayor and school committee to set the priorities that education comes first. We hear promises of "free college education".... we need to provide our children with properly funded and staffed grade and secondary school educations FIRST or college will be a non-issue.

Let's take back our education and demand that our schools be properly funded and made a priority in our community.