By Antonio D. French
Filed Thursday, May 10, 2007 at 6:40 PM
The Commissioner of Education, D. Kent King, has granted the St. Louis Board of Education a hearing regarding the accreditation status of the school district. The hearing is currently scheduled for May 22 in Jefferson City.
"I am pleased the Commissioner is giving this opportunity to present the data we previously submitted to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education which shows our district deserves to remain provisionally accredited," said Superintendent Diana Bourisaw.
"I am pleased the Commissioner is giving this opportunity to present the data we previously submitted to the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education which shows our district deserves to remain provisionally accredited," said Superintendent Diana Bourisaw.
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4 Comments:
A double irony in this. Bourisaw and five new board members who have been doing their best to repair the damage of the slay-roberti-williams years must convince the state board that the damage was not bad enough to lose provisional accreditation. (unless maybe they have new evidence from 2006-2007).
And the state board will make the case that so much damage was done in the Slay-roberti-williams years, that it is necessary to take away voters' rights and return one third of the power to-----slay.
5/11/2007 1:47 AM
Part one:
The accreditation evaluation was changed--moved up a year.
The accreditation standard was changed--five years of data instead of three.
No other district was subjected to these changes.
This appeal should be a no-brainer. The ruling on accreditation made by DESE was patently biased and unfair.
How the state responds will reveal how deep the roots go in this insidious plot.
Part 2:
Even if the district is ruled unaccredited, under federal NCLB law, a district has 2 years to regain its accreditation before a takeover can apply.
This law is applied to every school district in the nation except, apparently, St. Louis Public Schools.
The state's takeover authority is based upon a desegregation agreement which the STATE has not abided by, witholding millions of dollars from SLPS for years required by the order.
The plan outlines proposed so far by the state for the district would have the effect of resegregating education in the city.
To use a desegregation agreement to resegregate a school district is extremely unethical and should be considered illegal.
This too should be a no-brainer.
The fact that people are even seriously considering these kinds of political and legal moves says a great deal about how far this state and this nation have come apart from the values which once made us great and strong.
5/11/2007 8:19 AM
After the hearing---do they take a vote? can they table it until the June meeting after the takeover will go into effect? If they take a vote and the appeal is rejected---slps lawyers will do something? If dese does nothing---then what?
What are the daily attendance figures for 2006-07 compared to 05-06? How many permanent substitutes this year are being used?
Anybody---anything?
5/11/2007 11:37 AM
one thing for sure they will never let this crew run the district. they are seen as a group of people with no tie to the people that run thus town or the state. i hear bourisaw is trying to get a job at normandy.
5/12/2007 12:20 AM
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