VisionRootOur youth are being decimated by the propagation of destructive lifestyles, and specifically, gender indoctrination, at every turn.
Public schools are an especially an area of concern regarding gender indoctrination.
Richard presents a practical solution with the three-pronged education approach of abstinence-centered classroom education, peer counseling by abstinent peers, and STAR (Students Teaching Abstinence and Responsibility) leadership clubs.
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West Virginia requires 26 doses of 11 vaccines for school attendance. Governor Morrisey has given an Executive Order that religious exemptions will now be given, but conflicted West Virginia House Representatives failed to codify this into law.
Furthermore, regarding COVID shots, 88 percent of pregnant women in a Pfizer trial who received COVID shots aborted their babies!
Stop all COVID Shots Now:
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We have been struck head-on with the detrimental effect of conflicts of interest during the COVID vaccine debacle. But governments and communities are rife with conflicts of interest in many different areas.
The Supreme Court, through social engineering without representation, fundamentally changed the nature of American society. This meritless decision must be overturned.
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President Trump made history by pardoning all of the January 6th, 2021 protestors who were arrested. This prosecution of President Trump’s supporters had been an ongoing witch hunt, orchestrated by the Biden Department of Justice. These pardons will go down in history as an historic restoration of justice.
On his first full day in office, January 14, 2025, West Virginia’s new governor, Patrick Morrisey, issued an executive order giving all West Virginians the ability to seek religious exemptions for vaccinations required for school attendance.
West Virginians have battled for decades to have this basic right.
Vote No to More Taxes; Against the Levy
Just the surplus from the Excess Levy this past fiscal year covered all teaching and service personnel not covered by state funding, plus the teachers’ levy bonus. Where did the other $17 million plus designated for salaries go?
The current School Excess Levy in Jefferson County West Virginia was voted in on November 3, 2020 and runs from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2026 and raises at least $22,412,937 per year, or $2720 per student EXTRA!
Now the Jefferson County Board of Education wants us to pay $25,427,656 per year for the next School Excess Levy, which, if not defeated on November 5, 2024, will take effect from July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2031.
The accounting for what our tax dollars are spent on is very opaque. I believe in the necessity of transparency, honesty and accountability on the part of our Board of Education.Since the Board of Education cannot detail clearly where our tax dollars have gone, the next Excess Levy should not be approved.
Read more: Vote Against the (School Excess) LevyAccording to the limited data which was provided by Superintendent Chuck Bishop, teacher and service personnel salaries account for about 16% of the total excess levy amount collect for the 2023 fiscal year, which was $27,724,340, or $5,296,684 more than the projected $22,412,937. Only 39 teaching positions, out of 559 total positions, and 0.4 (yes, less than one) nurses, school counselors or attendance workers, plus 70 service personnel out of 394 total are paid out of levy funds.
But the county does not distinguish between the regular school levy funds, which are $330 per $1000 of property taxes collected, and the excess levy funds, which are another $391 for every $1000 of property tax collected. This means that those 39 teachers, 0.4 nurses and counselors and 70 service personnel are also funded by County school funds that will be available even when the Excess Levy does not pass. And only $800 of Excess Levy funds per year are paid to a teacher with five years’ experience and a bachelor’s degree, or less than two (2) percent of all Excess Levy funds collected, in total, goes to teachers.
The extra amount collected of $5,296,684 above the projected amount of $22,412.937 in itself could have paid for all of the personnel not covered by the state formula, the cost of which was about $4.5 million. Yet the Excess Levy collected $21,650,284 for salaries. And remember that salaries not covered by the state are also paid from the regular County School Levy (labeled “School Current” on your property tax bill). So, where did the other $17,412,937 of excess levy salary support go, considering that only some $420,000 went to support teacher salaries and about $4.5 million from all levy funds, both excess and county current, went to pay teachers and other personnel not covered by the state formula?
No doubt, the bloated Jefferson County Schools central office staff of 44 received a good portion of the excess levy funds. A new state law requires the Board of Education to make available to anyone who asks a list of all employees’ salaries, which was due on September 30, 2024. Yet the Board of Education and the Superintendent have not made that list available as of October 25, 2024. What are they hiding? Maybe the $9000 average bonuses per central office employee, that increase every year and continue perpetually, that the Board of Education granted to central office staff in 2020? As you can see, there is a severe lack of transparency in the spending of our tax dollars.
The bloated central office staff has 44 personnel, up six personnel since 2020. Yet, school enrollment has declined by 715 students, or 8 percent since the 2019 to 2020 school year. The total school budget then was $118,000,0000, but now for the 2023-2034 fiscal year it was 127,691505, up 8 percent for 8 percent less students.
In fiscal 2025, the Board of Education wants to increase the budget even further, in spite of no increase in enrollment, and lackluster student performance, with 74 percent of high school students not proficient in math, and 38 percent not proficient in reading.
Vote no to more taxes, and AGAINST THE LEVY.
More information about the School Excess Levy in Jefferson County, West Virginia: visionroot.org/levy.