It appears that the HB 70 CEO in the Lorain City School District is at odds with the Board of Education, school personnel, the Police Department and the Mayor. The CEO and the Police Department are in a tiff over a School Resource Officer
matter.
The Board of Education’s Vice President says it is time for the CEO to go.
HB 70 of the 131st General Assembly was pushed through the legislature with no public discussion in a 24-hour period. It was cobbled together in secret by a former state superintendent and a half-dozen non-elected residents of the Mahoning Valley at the behest of a former governor. The premise of the bill is that a poverty-stricken school district will demonstrate significantly improved test scores and educational opportunities by removing control of the district from the elected board of education. In other words, it assumes that replacing democratic control with autocratic control of the district will solve the issue of low test scores and inadequate educational opportunities. Then if that doesn’t work, the district will be turned over to a charter operation.
The perpetrators of HB 70 presumed that when a school district registers low test scores democratic control of the district is the problem. Essentially their presumption is that, in some communities, the citizens are incapable of self-government; hence, a dictator to run the school is warranted.
The 131st General Assembly made a huge mistake in enacting HB 70 and the 133rd General Assembly must eliminate this horrific wart.
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There is a lot of dictatorship going around. “This aligns our superintendent with the governor, whether Republican or Democrat,” said Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray, R-Martinsville.
Since Indiana is a red state, largely due to extensive gerrymandering, how often will a Democrat be elected?
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Education pick in hands of governor
Senate OKs bill to make position an appointment
NIKI KELLY | The Journal Gazette
INDIANAPOLIS – Hoosiers have voted for their last state education chief.
The Indiana Senate approved a bill 29-19 on Tuesday that will allow the governor to appoint the Indiana secretary of education starting in January 2021.
That is when current Superintendent of Public Instruction Jennifer McCormick’s term ends. She is not seeking re-election.
House Bill 1005 now goes to Gov. Eric Holcomb for his signature. It was part of his legislative agenda.
Lawmakers decided in 2017 to move to an appointed rather than elected post. But it was supposed to start in 2025. With McCormick not running again, the bill accelerated the timeline.
Only 13 states have an elected superintendent, and of those Indiana is one of only nine that makes it a partisan post.
“This aligns our superintendent with the governor, whether Republican or Democrat,” said Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray, R-Martinsville.
Area senators split on the vote. Those in support were Sens. Liz Brown, R-Fort Wayne; Justin Busch, R-Fort Wayne; Dennis Kruse, R-Auburn; and Travis Holdman, R-Markle. Those against were Sens. Andy Zay, R-Huntington, and Sue Glick, R-LaGrange.
“With today’s passing of House Bill 1005, the finish line for serving Indiana’s students with an elected State Superintendent has been determined,” McCormick said in a statement. “As the 44th State Superintendent, and one of only three women elected since 1852, it has been an honor and a privilege to serve. Indiana is home to over 1.2 million students and more than 75,000 educators. Each deserves our complete attention and support.
“While politics has been interjected into our education, at the end of the day the question should not be, ‘what side of the aisle are you on,’ but ‘are you on the side of kids?’ The 2020 gubernatorial race will deserve greater attention as our students’ futures are dependent upon it. Education impacts all of us. Our children, educators, and school communities deserve a strong, representative voice.”
The next step will be to get rid of the U.S. Consitution and the Republic it supports because the U.S. lost in Vietnam and is losing in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan and everywhere else U.S. Troops are battling any threat to the autocrats’ empire of capitalism for the wealthiest 0.1 percent.
They will tell us what’s needed to become a winner — the U.S. must have an all-powerful dictator for life, Emperor of Darkness MAGA Man Donald Trump who never loses at anything he does because he said so … repeatedly.
MAGA man, good one, Lloyd.
MAGA: Make the A****** Go Away.
New saying: “Those who CAN’t become “IMMORAL” Politicians.
I think this is most appropriate….from Sam Smith’s blog.
Word: Killing independent thought
Forbes
“We are teaching students, literally, not to think, but instead to clear their own thoughts and concentrate on following the path followed by the people who wrote the test questions. We are teaching them that every question has just one right answer, that somebody out there already knows it, and that you go to school to learn to say what those people want you to say. This is not a new issue in education, but we have ramped it up, systematically injected it into every level of K-12 education, and incentivized it like never before. If it has stifled a generation’s desire for independent thought, that is no surprise.” – Peter Greene, Retired Educator
When I was still teaching English in high school, the mantra that there was no wrong answer when intellectually dissecting a story or poem was emphasized.
In math, there are wrong and right answers. I mean one + one cannot add up to three (unless you are taking a Common Core high stakes rank and punish test and can prove it through the “new” math).
But when you are discussing what an author or poet meant by something in his or her story, there are many possible answers from the reader’s point of view.
In fact, I discovered new possibilities from stories I’d taught for years during the discussions I had with my students. “Gee,” the teacher says, “That’s an interesting valid point of view I didn’t think of before.” And the teacher meant it.
see the next generations facing long days in front of creative-thinking-not-required computer screens: at home, at school, at work