Budgeting 101.After watching its first school budget in two decades defeated at the polls last year, the Union-Endicott Public Schools decided that the best way to engender en·gen·der v. en·gen·dered, en·gen·der·ing, en·gen·ders v.tr. 1. To bring into existence; give rise to: "Every cloud engenders not a storm" public support for the district's next spending plan was to teach residents about budgeting. So the district offered a free three-session course on the elements of school budgeting earlier this year. The course attracted 75 attendees of various ages and interests, exceeding the expectations of Superintendent Dennis Sweeney Dennis Sweeney was an anti-Vietnam War protestor and civil rights activist in the 1960s. He worked with SNCC in their voter registration drives in Mississippi. During his time at Stanford University, he was the protegé of Allard Lowenstein, a political organizer who would later . Central-office administrators served as the faculty. One unanticipated result was that even the district's harshest critics told the superintendent afterward af·ter·ward also af·ter·wards adv. At a later time; subsequently. Adv. 1. afterward - happening at a time subsequent to a reference time; "he apologized subsequently"; "he's going to the store but he'll be back here , "You have a very competent corps of administrators." Sweeney Sweeney in poems by T. S. Eliot, symbolizes the sensual, brutal, and materialistic 20th-century man. [Br. Poetry, Benét, 978] See : Virility hopes the best result will be realized on June 7, the day district residents cast votes on the next budget. |
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