What Will It Take To Get Answers From DESE?
Some folks down in the East Newton school district still have questions about Common Core and are willing to do whatever it takes to get answers from DESE. They have scheduled a meeting this month and invited DESE to attend. Here was the first response from DESE.
Not to be put off so easily, the local organizer promised DESE to do whatever they could to
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Fri, May 31, 2013 2:58 pm
Subject: Letter from DESE in response to our invitation
Dear Bobbi:
Thank you for the invitation to participate in your community meeting at East Newton. I’m sorry I took so long to get back with you as I have been on vacation. I checked with Dr. Cooper, assistant commissioner, to see if the department would be expending more resources on individual community meetings across the state. He indicated that our open meetings were held on May 2nd and we would not be presenting at other meetings at this time. We have an abundance of information on the department’s website at the following link: http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/curriculum/CommonCoreMeetings.html In addition, on that site are PDF links to the lists of the questions that came out of each of our 8 regional meetings held on May 2, and I am told that it will soon have a link to the answers to all of those questions. If there is information that is not included about which anyone might have additional questions, please feel free to email those questions to me or to the Department atcommunications@dese.mo.gov.
Thank you again for the invitation,
Mike Wutke, Ed.D.
South Central Area Supervisor
Not to be put off so easily, the local organizer promised DESE to do whatever they could to
