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2/01/2007 1:10 AM
Meanwhile, Joe Biden is still thugged out.
2/01/2007 6:18 AM
To Kent King,
Who is the other side you are referring to? The major, Frankie Freeman and Donald Suggs who supported the school board members who are responsible for the District’s slide over the past three or four Years? I guess since the citizens at Tuesday’s meeting were not the power or money brokers the sentiments do not count. Who counts in this issue? I hope it is the children, not the mayor, and the power brokers downtown.
It is becoming apparent, that despite all of your avowals you are not an impartial player. Please do not get embroil in the racial and class issues in St. Louis. You have a Mayor who is reluctant to fire a heads of a department who is alleged to have made racial and class jokes. A police department that allows their officers to refer to their black citizens as N….rs and the mayor has not asked for an investigation. This is who you want to have a voice in appointing a school board. Are we going back to the days of Holt and his racist school board members who voted against many reforms in the district ten or more years ago?
2/01/2007 10:24 AM
Oh please, we all know that post isn't from Kent King. I don't believe any post that says it is from an official or candidate--people can type in any name they want on these things, you know.
2/01/2007 10:52 AM
While public officials do sometimes engage in discussions on this website, I have verified that the above comment WAS NOT left by DESE Commissioner Kent King.
It has been deleted.
2/01/2007 11:16 AM
Then this is directed to whoever posted as Kent King and anyone at DESE who may read this blog:
Please do enlighten us with the "other side" of this story that involves tax money and the education of City children. Why don't we, the taxpayers and parents of students, know all sides yet? Or is it just more of the same from disinterested rich people who want to control the money?
We have seen the results of a state takeover in Wellston and find that inferior to the progress made by Dr. Bourisaw. In fact, judging from the State Report card for Wellston, we find the state takeover to be inferior--period.
If the DESE, governor, and mayor think the real issue is a voucher program, then they need to be blunt about it and admit that's the real agenda. In the meantime, they are playing with the education and futures of thousands of children.
Remember the children? I think this is just a power play for all you politicians and bureaucrats because I don't see anyone coming up with ideas that will help the children NOW.
Leave Dr. Bourisaw alone so that she can deal with improving education for the students. Her first 6 months are already more impressive than a year of failure in Wellston, courtesy of the DESE.
What happened in Wellston to bring about such dismal ratings in the school year immediately following the state takeover? Ratings went down--way down, according to the published state report card. Please explain what went wrong there and your plan to do things differently in St. Louis. Please show your written guarantee that state control will improve SLPS more than Dr. Bourisaw's plans and your promise to relinquish control if accreditation is not attained in six months (the amount of time you’ve given to Dr. Boursiaw), plus how the DESE will reimburse the City students should state control prove detrimental. Then maybe we will consider the takeover a viable option for improvement.
2/01/2007 2:13 PM
Ms. Nasheed, AKA - Long blog writer, AKA - Short stuff, AKA - State Rep 57 hood, Listen up, impact people with a few words, Im tired of reading your long post.
2/02/2007 12:19 AM
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