tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post6586865367624081472..comments2024-01-08T03:21:35.616-05:00Comments on DeKalb County School Watch: The October 4 Board MeetingCerebrationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11161868015604029471noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-13156900887076139712010-10-18T12:44:22.166-04:002010-10-18T12:44:22.166-04:00Regarding the above referenced meeting --
At ...Regarding the above referenced meeting --<br /><br /> At the request of the Committee Chair, be advised that the Budget, Finance & Facilities Committee Meeting scheduled Thursday, October 21, 2010, has been moved from the Cabinet Room to the Board Room. The meeting time and agenda remains unchanged.Cerebrationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11161868015604029471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-11103273247183322942010-10-18T11:45:20.428-04:002010-10-18T11:45:20.428-04:00Apparently, Lynn Jackson from the state will be sp...Apparently, Lynn Jackson from the state will be speaking this Thursday, October 21 at 10 am - at the Budget, Finance and Facilities Committee Meeting. Here's the agenda item:<br /><br />Capital Entitlement Program <br /><br />Quick Summary / Abstract<br />Presented by: Ms. Lynn Jackson, Associate Superintendent for Business Operations<br /> Office of Finance & Business Operations<br /> Georgia Department of Education<br /><br /><br />I'm told that she is a very enlightening speaker - so plan to attend.Cerebrationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11161868015604029471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-79860121325766343282010-10-18T10:11:40.606-04:002010-10-18T10:11:40.606-04:001:54 Well said, and dead on.
DCSS will only imp...1:54 Well said, and dead on. <br /><br />DCSS will only improve if a total new administration is running the system. A new superintendent alone, will not make our children's education better. <br /><br />Rhee ruffled feathers with many, including teachers, parents, and the unions, but she always had the children's best interest at heart in the decisions that she made. The same cannot be said for the administrators of DCSS. They talk the talk, but have NO clue on how to walk the walk and educate our children.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-4536186100436374592010-10-18T01:54:43.321-04:002010-10-18T01:54:43.321-04:00The lewis regime is alive and well. Any and all me...The lewis regime is alive and well. Any and all members should be given the boot! Every department head needs to exit left stage asap. I have a major problem with tyson submitting request for any changes to the board. All she is doing is executing crawfords previously established plans and agenda. A new supt. would not have submitted this current budget that cut from the bottom and nothing from the top! Friends and families were spared. I know that a new supt. will do what Johnny Brown did and cut from the top. Tom Bowman saved his relatives with this budget. The vote was passed through party lines and the republicans won. <br />People need not be impressed with Ernest Brown, ODE, or Dave Shutten. The're not concerned with the needs of the students or staff but their own limited importance. Thank God Ernest did not win for district 9, he gives educated fools a new meaning!<br />The title 1 program is only entitling Berry and friends in getting paid! The parent centers are the biggest joke standing. Berry prints newsletters and give schools awards to make it appear like those centers are doing something, not! If you don't believe me just pull their records for the number of people who visits the centers monthly. I wonder who lewis took on his trips funded by the county asa mentioned in his indictment?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-47699195072932004272010-10-11T18:39:33.906-04:002010-10-11T18:39:33.906-04:00The decisions on how to spend the money must be ma...The decisions on how to spend the money must be made in late November or early Decmeber, during the lame duck sessions of the BOE.<br /><br />I ask, what happens if the 5 get voted out on November 2nd? Then they come together for a meeting in late November or early December to decide where to spend the money? These 5 lame ducks could retaliate and vote for something that is totally against what the citizens want. I fear that these incumbents are holding their votes over their constituents. <br /><br />I fear that they are saying to some, if you don't vote for me, your school will NOT get funding. Is this the the type of government we want? Is this how we want our Reps to act? Could this happen?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-73545639112719634102010-10-11T15:05:19.144-04:002010-10-11T15:05:19.144-04:00Anon October 11, 2010 10:28 AM
"They have to...Anon October 11, 2010 10:28 AM<br />"They have to accept the federal bonds soon, but I think they don't plan on determining exactly how to spend them until later this year, after data collections and building assessments are done."<br /><br />Wow!! some more of that there government free money. Oops! It is not really free? Do you mean that the taxpayers who fund the Premier DCSS (the second highest tax rate in the metro area by only few hundredths of a mil) will have to pay the money back? Maybe they could raise the taxes on Zephorahs house.<br /><br />DCSS .... a listing ship with a dysfunctional crew, no navigator and no captain.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-48305301343981622212010-10-11T14:20:31.847-04:002010-10-11T14:20:31.847-04:00Before any decisions on who and what get renovatio...Before any decisions on who and what get renovations, we need to have an outside company come and inspect each school (like a home inspection) and then put buildings in order of which are priorities. Picking and choosing the way the district does is not helping the children and not necessarily improving the schools that need it the most. <br /><br />Until outsiders are brought in to look at how the district is being run into the ground and an outside superintendent is hired (which I become more and more unsure will happen) I do not see DCSS turning itself around and being a school district where people want to send their children to school.<br /><br />Too much of the same old same old is done. Very sad. Hopefully our children will be thought of soon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-55962021137106943542010-10-11T14:19:58.553-04:002010-10-11T14:19:58.553-04:00Obligating the 58 million dollars BEFORE some any ...Obligating the 58 million dollars BEFORE some any semblance of a long term plan is not the right thing to do. It could be perceived as pandering for votes if a decision is made before the election and the analysis.<br /><br />If is is true that DCSS is considering consolidating the magnet programs, there will not be enough high school students remaining to justify a new high school in the Chamblee area. Only if it would also house students from Cross Keys should that be considered. Again, the report is needed before any plans are made.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-27428652321847932262010-10-11T12:36:05.865-04:002010-10-11T12:36:05.865-04:00I thought that DCSS was to work with Lynn Jackson ...I thought that DCSS was to work with Lynn Jackson at the GADOE to come up with plans for closing/consolidations/redistricting? At least that was the impression I got last May at the DCPC and the reason why the closures were put off for this school year.<br /><br />Cere is right - No BOE member should be advocating for use of this money until we see Dan Drake's data, the full facilities report, input from the GADOE and a real plan for the next 10 to 20 years.Paula Caldarellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05515215184962897541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-89343688276539046642010-10-11T12:22:01.272-04:002010-10-11T12:22:01.272-04:00I'm a fan of the work done at Coralwood also, ...I'm a fan of the work done at Coralwood also, but according to the newest data, they only serve 209 students. They have had significant renovations (including a digital electronic marquee) as well as a privately-sponsored nature trail. <br /><br />We need to try to use this money to impact as many students as possible, IMO. DSA also only serves less than 300 students. <br /><br />Our leadership is unfocused and should not be making ANY decisions until they have solid enrollment numbers and data, reports as to the conditions of buildings, and a valid plan for the future (at least the next 5 years). <br /><br />These folks are discussing millions of dollars and they sound utterly befuddled as to what to do with it all --I am not comfortable with the randomness of the board's discussions of late.Cerebrationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11161868015604029471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-15859988626495629372010-10-11T10:28:27.928-04:002010-10-11T10:28:27.928-04:00They have to accept the federal bonds soon, but I ...They have to accept the federal bonds soon, but I think they don't plan on determining exactly how to spend them until later this year, after data collections and building assessments are done.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-16818587527311288432010-10-11T09:34:39.278-04:002010-10-11T09:34:39.278-04:00Shouldn't the BOE wait for the demographers re...Shouldn't the BOE wait for the demographers report before advocating for a new building for CCHS? Is this just an election-year ploy?<br /><br />If the magnet school is moved and AYP transfers could stop under the new Obama/ESEA program, the school will be woefully underenrolled. <br /><br />BOE, let's see a "big picture" before we go spending this precious money.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-44828318583399695232010-10-11T09:28:19.803-04:002010-10-11T09:28:19.803-04:00You are exactly right. According to their website...You are exactly right. According to their website, Coralwood serves PreK and Kindergarten only.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-76397159835769124842010-10-11T09:17:44.661-04:002010-10-11T09:17:44.661-04:0010/6 3:59pm "The board will make a decision b...10/6 3:59pm "The board will make a decision by the end of the year, Bowen said. Possible options for the money include expanding the overcrowded Chamblee High School, renovating the Coralwood Diagnostic Center for special needs’ students and repairing leaky roofs."<br /><br />Renovating Coralwood!!! You have got to be kidding me. I vote at Coralwood and that school has already ungone EXTENSIVE renovations w/in the past 10 years. It appears to me that floor to ceiling renovations have already been done, everything was touched including new windows. The building looks brand new.<br /><br />Not to make light of the fabulous work they do at the school with the hearing and speech diagnotics for the county, but it is an intergrated regular (mainly neighborhood kids)/special ed. preschool. Last I heard it only went up to PreK. <br /><br />I'd like to know who in DCSS is thinking Coralwood needs renovations. I hope the Chamblee folks are already pounding the table for these funds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-9644160828539984982010-10-11T08:25:06.919-04:002010-10-11T08:25:06.919-04:00Technology improves the instructional environment ...Technology improves the instructional environment however you are referring only to physical changes. Does HVAC count?<br /><br />It would help if you would name the schools that have not been worked on so we could look them up and verify.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-49126680451275527492010-10-11T08:00:04.378-04:002010-10-11T08:00:04.378-04:00Not the poster but...
Technology doesn't real...Not the poster but...<br /><br />Technology doesn't really count as it doesn't improve the physical environment.<br /><br />Every school certainly hasn't had ADA. I am not sure what Henderson, Shamrock and Sequoyah have had done.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-83620203961896244982010-10-11T07:12:13.997-04:002010-10-11T07:12:13.997-04:00"There are schools from SPLOST I and II that ..."There are schools from SPLOST I and II that have never been worked on."<br /><br />I thought every school either got technology or had ADA updates. Please name those schools. You post will have that much more credibility if we can research that for ourselves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-42856631463440560722010-10-11T01:13:21.633-04:002010-10-11T01:13:21.633-04:00http://dekalbparent.wordpress.com/meetings/oct6th2...http://dekalbparent.wordpress.com/meetings/oct6th2010/<br /><br />When you read the meeting notes, the BOE'er really, really seem to be disorganized and forgetful.<br /><br />And Zepora Roberts and Sarah Copelin-Wood have been on the board for years. There are schools from SPLOST I and II that have never been worked on.<br /><br />Zepora is running on her record. Well, DCSS has such a nice record with its SPLOST projects. You can claim it on Pat Pope and Crawford Lewis, but you approved everything they brought to you with little questioning and zero accountability and follow-up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-28706393663308101222010-10-10T21:25:21.513-04:002010-10-10T21:25:21.513-04:00In reading the post on the DeKalb Parents website ...In reading the post on the DeKalb Parents website - I am outraged. Several of these board members were falling all over themselves to say that CCHS needs a new building, but yet all Cross Keys has gotten is a minor facelift to a much older, more worn out facility. <br /><br />But, par for the course for this board.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-28504083253440587542010-10-10T20:38:23.366-04:002010-10-10T20:38:23.366-04:00Nope.
Cobb hired a former military person a few y...Nope.<br /><br />Cobb hired a former military person a few years ago. No Phd there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-37802587572651765432010-10-10T20:06:26.813-04:002010-10-10T20:06:26.813-04:00I thought one requirement of a superintendent was ...I thought one requirement of a superintendent was a doctorate? Correct? Ms. Tyson does not have one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-89532531562452105912010-10-07T22:58:44.130-04:002010-10-07T22:58:44.130-04:00FYI - The DeKalb Parents Website has detailed meet...FYI - The <a href="http://www.dekalbparentsareunited.com" rel="nofollow">DeKalb Parents Website</a> has detailed meeting notes from the Oct 4th and Oct 6th meeting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-7604911470744563682010-10-06T20:39:53.935-04:002010-10-06T20:39:53.935-04:00Come on people - be nice. If you have an opinion ...Come on people - be nice. If you have an opinion about someone's actions, then feel free to express it tactfully. Otherwise, your comment will be deleted.Cerebrationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11161868015604029471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-32871462014110330032010-10-06T20:04:58.444-04:002010-10-06T20:04:58.444-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-151096942903989101.post-73619627006793491392010-10-06T17:52:17.844-04:002010-10-06T17:52:17.844-04:00I heard that Chamblee Charter High School had abou...I heard that Chamblee Charter High School had about 15 parents and stakeholders in attendance. Let's hope someone reports in on what was discussed.<br /><br />The agenda also showed they discussed the QSCB "stimulus" Bonds which total over $57 million dollars and I think there is a deadline and the decision must be made soon on the "if" and "how" the money will be used. This current board will be making a lot of decisions over the next two months, that will directly effect the future of DCSS.<br /><br />Can anyone report on the meeting today?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com