Education Reform
History offers us the ability to see what has been accomplished and learn from it. Building new schools is expensive and is not the end-all. Fully utilizing the schools we have, further incorporating land banking, alternative calendars and delaying the opening of new schools affords funding to go directly to students, teachers, and existing schools. Using money that does come to our school district in more creative ways will excel our children to greatness.
Diversity is honored in the world of business and government. WCPSS is devoted to teaching all our kids that diversity is something to respect and appreciate, therefore creating a learning environment where each child has equal opportunity for success in school. Learning from each other is a part of being on your way to being a responsible adult. We all want to prepare our children for an increasingly global world.
Raising expectations and standards in ways such as increasing the quality of the school leadership and teachers, staff training, class size, aligning state standards to curriculum and accountability, and parent involvement are some ways to look at. Schools in more affluent communities, where parents and community members help to raise additional funds, are able to provide enrichment programs such as music, the arts, well-stocked school libraries, that less affluent schools generally can't afford.
Growth will return to this area so we should take this down turn as time to explore, have dialogue, research, and implement in whatever small ways to advance academics in all Wake schools.Wake’s success in attracting high-paying jobs is based on its competitive advantage. We need to nurture and feed this success by constantly raising the academic bar, looking at creative ways to teach, and finding new ways to make our schools even better so the children succeed
Perdue elected regional education chairman
Perdue was elected Monday at the board's annual meeting at The Greenbrier resort. She will succeed West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, who has been the board's chairman since 2009. Former Virginia Board of Education president Mark Emblidge was re-elected as vice chairman.
The 16-state organization is based in Atlanta and helps education and government leaders work together to advance education in the region.
Focus on dropouts, absentees is working
...for now...according to this story from WRAL, coordinated efforts through "professional learning teams" have succeeded in lowering the WCPSS dropout total from 1,600 in 2007-08, to under 1,403 in 2008-09. However, one of the first actions of the new BOE majority last Fall was to end designated PLT meeting time. An alternative has yet to materialize.
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