Sacramento CA - Broadsided?
SACRAMENTO BROADSIDE CHECKLIST
A reader offered this comment in response to the post about school closings in Sacramento:
A “Broad” superintendent who follows its “play-list” to “capture” the school board and privatize the district as much as possible:
– Convinced the board of education to turn all the power over to the superintendent.
– Keeps secret all the contracts and consultants hired by the superintendent. In fact, it’s been said that the latest consultant working with the superintendent was the principal of Kevin Johnson’s St. Hope H.S. None of this information can be found on the district’s web site. Even the organization chart with unfilled positions is dated July 2012.
– Consistently and knowingly breaches the contract to keep the union busy with grievances and court procedures.
– Whittles away at teacher tenure by creating a class of teachers in the district’s “priority schools” whose jobs are protected from last hired, first fired. (Yes, the union is
grieving this.)
grieving this.)
– Increases class size to 30+ in all grades except those in “priority” schools.
– In “failing” schools the district insists on split grades rather than keeping class sizes
low.
low.
– Forces remedial programs (more test prep on top of test prep) onto “failing” schools
without any input from the teachers and wastes hundreds of thousands of dollars on
consultants and test prep companies.
without any input from the teachers and wastes hundreds of thousands of dollars on
consultants and test prep companies.
- Closes the neighborhood schools under the pretext that there are too few students in
the school. But in fact, it’s because they are “failing” (read: poverty and neglect.)
the school. But in fact, it’s because they are “failing” (read: poverty and neglect.)
– “Allows” a private charter school to locate in the former “neighborhood ” school.
– Parents who want and need a neighborhood school drop out of the public school and send their kids to the charter.
– Pink slips for union teachers.
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A reader offered this comment in response to the post about school closings in Sacramento:
A “Broad” superintendent who follows its “play-list” to “capture” the school board and privatize the district as much as possible:
– Convinced the board of education to turn all the power over to the superintendent.
– Keeps secret all the contracts and consultants hired by the superintendent. In fact, it’s been said that the
A “Broad” superintendent who follows its “play-list” to “capture” the school board and privatize the district as much as possible:
– Convinced the board of education to turn all the power over to the superintendent.
– Keeps secret all the contracts and consultants hired by the superintendent. In fact, it’s been said that the