Colleagues, Differences in school finances are not unusual. We’ve had these disputes before and I’m sure we’ll have them in the future, too. But the current District administration, in less than one year’s time, has brought the District’s fiscal management to a new level of incompetence and misrepresentation. This serves to further undermine the District's credibility and puts in jeopardy the education of our students. That is why we will devote the necessary time and effort, in a multi-part series, to tell the truth about the District’s finances. The first of these installments is about the District’s revenues. Just a few months ago, if you recall, the Rochester City School District falsely alleged that this year's budget would end with a deficit of $199 million. We didn’t fall for it and we labeled it a “manufactured crisis.” The District then started backpedaling from their grossly exaggerated projections. But now, they’re back to their old tricks. They are claiming poverty again...