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Title : New Board Goes to Town Tonight on SATP and HCC Pathways
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New Board Goes to Town Tonight on SATP and HCC Pathways
Update: my understanding is that by voting down the SATP, vote for the amendment to end HCC high school pathways is now void.What a mess. I think someone was trying a power play and it didn't work. Lack of true engagement NEVER works.
end of update
I was neither able to attend the Board meeting this evening nor view it on tv but from reports I'm hearing, it was a doozy.
First, there were elections for Board leadership. Director Leslie Harris was elected president but by a 4-3 vote. Director Burke was an uncontested vote for VP and won 7-0. Director Geary is Member-at-Large. Director Geary had apparently wanted to be president but it went to Harris. At the Board retreat, only Director Pinkham wanted to be Member-at-Large but new director, Zachary DeWolf nominated Geary and it went to her.
But the agenda seems to have undergone change with multiple amendments for the SAP item in the last 24 hours.
The SAP which may have been voted down over these amendments (it's unclear to me at this point), two of which appeared sometime today.
It appears that the Board voted to get rid of HCC pathways to high school by 2021-2022 school year amendment which was put forth by Geary, DeWolf and Patu.
This amendment gives significant advanced notice to families that this change is coming.
But without any notice of the amendment or engagement about it. I smell the fine hand of staff behind this. I'm pretty surprised to see Director Patu signing on.
By providing advanced course offerings in all neighborhood high schools, the district creates more demand for these courses in all schools, which will increase access to these courses to more students.
What? I'm sorry the directors didn't know that there ARE advanced course offerings in all comprehensive high schools. It's true.
Having more of them will create more demand? On what is that based?
By removing pathways, it will also remove a label from children, which currently has a negative effect on identity safety in classrooms across the city.
Which children are they speaking of? Odd that there is no specific explanation here.
Upon approval of this motion, staff will begin to create a long-term strategy for meeting the needs of every student in every neighborhood attendance area high school.
Wait, what? Isn't the district already doing this? They have no strategy for meeting the needs of every students in every high school? That's quite a thing to admit.
I will have to sit down and view this meeting but I think this kind of action - so early on for a couple of new members - is problematic.
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