Last night, I attended the Plan for Excellence (PFE) Steering Committee meeting. They discussed the research and recommendations of the various subcommittees and study groups. As expected, all-day kindergarten and reconfiguration were not recommended. One item that was recommended was a new community relations position. Also, there were some interesting recommendations from the Extra and [...]

I’ve had a few questions about the “union bouquet” comment from a couple of posts ago. I was going to respond in a comment, but then I decided in the interest of full disclosure, my reply would make a better post than comment. No, it wasn’t any kind of threat, and I wasn’t named the [...]

At last Wednesday’s Board of Education meeting, representatives from the P-16 Alliance of Summit County gave a presentation on their initiative. The P-16 Alliance was begun by the Summit Education Initiative with support from the Gates Foundation. The Alliance is a cross-sector group made up of representatives from educational (from early childhood through K-12 right [...]

Recently there has been some discussion about the results and recommendations of the Reconfiguration Study Groups. For the record, I was the co-chair heading up the Reconfiguration – Best Practices group. My group was charged with researching and making recommendations on the following areas (some of which we selected and others that it was recommended [...]

I have been thinking a lot about what my beliefs are about the current state of our school district. I believe that while our district finances have apparently improved significantly in the past 2 years, we are really no better off in providing an excellent, equitable education to all district children than we were then. [...]