White intentionally focused on soliciting input from the community. And the strategies for improving city schools, he says, are not the board’s promise to keep – it’s the community’s. But the kinds of changes being discussed can’t happen in a vacuum. On the flip side, though this has been discussed as a community effort rather than a top-down to-do list, the community is going to need the support of teachers and principals, as well as Superintendent Bolgen Vargas. All have been noticeably absent. Here are a couple of unsolicited recommendations: White should immediately schedule at least one more public meeting at a much better venue, perhaps at a city high school with a large auditorium. And a fifth committee should be formed that focuses exclusively on implementation strategies. Are all the ideas pitch perfect? No. But it would be a shame to see this effort wasted and wind up as another of our seasonal talks about city schools.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 03:26:53 +0000
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