Meanwhile, more on the “Shocking Numbers Of Kindergarten, First Grade Suspensions” at Achievement First Schools - Wait, What?:
by jonpelto
Last Friday, Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education quietly ended what has widely been recognized as one of the State Department of Education’s most important and successful programs.
For years, a variety of Connecticut school districts have been receiving vital technical assistance from a group of retired superintendents and senior school administrators through a program housed at the State Department of Education.
The program has functioned thanks to a grant through EASTCONN, the Regional Education Service Center. The program has funded four State Department “Leaders in Residence,” along with three retired school superintendents. Together these people have been giving school districts across the state with critically important helpg on a wide
by jonpelto
….may have been attempting to explain his approach and commitment to school safety.
Like parents everywhere, most politicians were extremely disturbed and upset in the hours, days and weeks following the Newtown nightmare. Many led or joined the debate about how best to respond to the massacre and what laws and policies could be adopted to try to limit such disasters in the future.
Some of the ideas discussed in the weeks and months after the Newtown tragedy seemed to be genuine attempts to find solutions to the cycle of violence that threatens our children and our society. Other proposals seemed little more than publicity stunts designed exclusively to get politicians featured on the evening news.
As we approach the six-month anniversary of the shooting in Newtown, we continue to
by jonpelto
As Wait, What have readers learned over the last two years, Achievement First, Inc. the Charter School management company that runs more than two dozen schools in New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island is notorious for “out-migrating” or “dumping” any students that don’t fit their “exacting” standards.
While Achievement First likes to brag that their students do better on standardized tests than students in their neighboring district schools, they fail to reveal that the get those results by refusing to provide educational services to broad social-demographic groups within the community. In virtually every situation, Achievement First educates students that are less poor and they fail to take on their fair share of students who face English language barriers or need special education services.
The harsh discipline program, which they start at the kindergarten level, is just one
