New Advanced Learning Policy
At the May 1 Board meeting we will see the introduction of the new Advanced Learning policy.
There is a LOT wrong with it. A LOT. This is the public's chance to speak up and ask the Board to fix it. It is time to get active.
Let's start with the Board Action Report.
There is a LOT wrong with it. A LOT. This is the public's chance to speak up and ask the Board to fix it. It is time to get active.
Let's start with the Board Action Report.
"Policy D12.00 was adopted in 1992 and describes services and options for highly capable students that are out-of-date in 2013. A review of Advanced Learning programs conducted in 2007 by nationally recognized experts from the University of Virginia recommended convening School Board Briefing/Proposed Action Report an Advanced Learning Review Committee to reconsider our district’s mission for serving advanced learners. Members of that review committee and the mission statement they wrote support the new proposed Board Policy No. 2190 (see attachments)."No such "Advanced Learning Review Committee" was ever formed. Not ever. This is a bald-faced lie and a feeble, transparent, and clumsy one. Moreover, it is an unnecessary one. This lie isn't needed to make a case for writing