{"id":35486,"date":"2017-04-05T14:48:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T19:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=35486"},"modified":"2017-04-05T14:48:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T19:48:45","slug":"short-on-funding-texas-school-for-the-deaf-cancels-summer-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2017\/04\/05\/short-on-funding-texas-school-for-the-deaf-cancels-summer-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Short on Funding, Texas School for the Deaf Cancels Summer Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Short on Funding, Texas School for the Deaf Cancels Summer Program<\/strong><\/p>\n

Annual camp is regularly attended by approximately 1,000 deaf and hard of hearing students from Texas<\/p>\n

By Ben Russell<\/p>\n

April 4, 2017<\/p>\n

Citing financial constraints, the Texas School for the Deaf recently announced that it has canceled its state-funded summer school programs for summer 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a very difficult decision that was based on financial constraints that the school is experiencing as we approach the end of this two-year biennial budget cycle,\u201d Superintendent Claire Burgen said in a statement posted on the school\u2019s website. \u201cWe simply do not have sufficient funds to offer summer programs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The camp, which has been in operation for 25 years, would have run for two weeks in June at the TSD campus in Austin.<\/p>\n

The approximate amount of the budget shortfall, according to the school, is $500,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one is more saddened by this decision than we are,\u201d Burgen noted.<\/p>\n

In an email to NBC DFW, Burgen emphasized that increased enrollment and costs of operating the school, which is a residential facility, have far exceeded state funding levels for years.<\/p>\n

\u201cSadly, the insufficient revenues caught up with us this school year and summer programs was the only remaining non-federally mandated expense that the school has between now and the end of the fiscal year,\u201d Burgen said, indicating that the belief and the intention is to secure enough funding to operate the summer camp in 2018 and beyond.<\/p>\n

A Dallas mother is among many parents of deaf children who have voiced their concern about the camp closing.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re going to have these kids who are going to be home and, let\u2019s face it, most of them go home to parents who don\u2019t sign,\u201d said TaNe\u2019Shea Howell of her frustration for the students who will not attend camp this summer. \u201cSo they\u2019re going to spend two-and-a-half months in the stress of trying to understand what\u2019s happening in a hearing world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Howell\u2019s son, Zaccheus Walker, 21, is a student at the Texas School for the Deaf and has attended the summer camp every year since he was entering the seventh grade.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy [my son] attending the Texas School for the Deaf not only did it acclimate me and my family into a culture, a deaf culture, as well as learning the language but also now it gave him a sense of confidence, a sense of pride a sense of depth and awareness and a sense of who he is as a person,\u201d Howell said.<\/p>\n

A Lake Dallas father has started a GoFundMe account in an attempt to raise the estimated $500,000 needed to keep the camp in operation. As of Monday night the fund had tallied nearly $2,400.\u00a0https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/savesummercamp<\/a><\/p>\n

SOURCE:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/Short-on-Funding-Texas-School-for-the-Deaf-Cancels-Summer-Camp-418094343.html<\/a><\/p>\n

SOURCE #2:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/news\/local\/budget-cuts-end-summer-camp-for-the-deaf-in-austin\/425123100<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Short on Funding, Texas School for the Deaf Cancels Summer Program Annual camp is regularly attended by approximately 1,000 deaf and hard of hearing students from Texas By Ben Russell April 4, 2017 Citing financial constraints, the Texas School for…<\/p>\n

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