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Front Porch Charlotte

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The way forward for the school board

July 13, 2021

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Nearly two hours into a three-hour CMS Board of Education session to listen to public comment, former chair Arthur Griffin offered in his allotted two minutes his thoughts on three of the biggest issues facing the board:

  • Student outcomes-focused governance, a review of how the school board can refocus its attention on, as Griffin put it quoting the board’s facilitator, “what students know, and are able to do”;
  • How the board can provide teachers the training they need amid debate over critical race theory, implicit bias and the like;
  • Making good on the board’s December promise to examine CMS’s failure to built into its school improvement plans the standards that will allow all children be prepared to receive by 12th grade the diploma endorsements that would certify them as college- or career-ready. “If you want student outcomes to change,” he said, “adult behaviors have to change.”

Griffin served on the CMS board 1985-1986 and 1988-2003 and was chairperson 1997-2003.

Filed Under: Change

Growing up, I learned life lessons on the front porch. Today’s front porch has moved to the Internet. I want this site to focus on children, public education and efforts to ensure that every child becomes a well-educated, mature, motivated adult.

– Arthur Griffin

The 3AM Blog

Observations that may or may not bear up under the light of day, as posted at any time of the day by those involved in this site.

Past, present, or…

1/30/17: Children represent 23% of the present U.S. population and 100% of our collective future.

How will we respond?

1-29-17: “We can, whenever and wherever we choose, successfully teach all children whose schooling is of interest to us. We already know more than we need to do that. Whether or not we do it must finally depend on how we feel about the fact we haven’t so far.”

– Ronald Edmonds (May 24, 1935- July 15, 1983)

Opportunities abound

12-28-16: At its Oct. 25 meeting the CMS Board of Education approved a bunch of construction contracts, mostly for heating and air conditioning work. They are listed here in descending order of percentage participation by minority, women and small business enterprises.

  • 34.74% Providence High HVAC Controls
  • 1.5% Harding High chiller
  • 0% Cornelius Elementary chiller
  • 0% J.T. Williams HVAC controls
  • 0% Myers Park High chiller
  • 0% Pawtucket Elementary roof

Is there anything wrong with this picture?

Break the cycle

8-21-15: Who gets the leg up from pre-K programs? In 2013 about half of the children of adults with graduate or professional degrees were enrolled. But only about a quarter of the children of adults with less than a high school education were enrolled. Let’s break the cycle right there! Data from The Condition of Education 2015.

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