Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools

Upcoming evaluation of the school superintendent

This week's CHCCS board meeting (tomorrow, Oct 1) is the last meeting prior to the Superintendent's Evaluation meeting scheduled two weeks later.

 

What discussion points would you suggest the school board members keep in mind when evaluating the superintendent's performance?

 

Here is the Superintendent's Blog reporting on one year gains in reading and math. Remarkable numbers. Must ask how this was achieved and how the process can be repeated to 100%

 

Sample discussion topics to be used in his evaluation

1. Has the appropriation of local and state funds been fair and equal, for example, why is there not at least a half time SRO at Phoenix Academy even though the state provides funding for this position?

 

NAACP School Board Candidate Forum

Thanks to MaryAnne for the tip.

Date: 

Monday, September 21, 2009 - 3:00pm

Location: 

St. Paul AME Church, Merritt Mill Road, Chapel Hill

OCDW School Board Forum

Orange County Democratic Women
Meeting – Thursday September 24th
7:30 – 9:00 PM


OWASA Community Room
lower floor of the Administration Building
400 Jones Ferry Road in Carrboro

This meeting includes a forum, open to the public, featuring Chapel Hill - Carrboro Board of Education Candidates.  Each candidate will answer specific questions from our moderator, after which there will be a time for responses to questions from those attending.  Candidates for the three seats are Michelle (Shell) Brownstein, Mary Anne Gucciardi,  J.M. (Joe) Green, Gregory McElveen, Christine Lee, and Susana L. Dancy.

Date: 

Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

OWASA Community Room

PAGE forum for CHCCS school board candidates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Emily Martine, Chair, PAGE-CHCCS, emilymartine@mindspring.com

PAGE to Host Candidates Forum
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro chapter of Partners for the Advancement of Gifted Education (PAGE) will sponsor a forum for candidates for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education. The public is invited to the forum, which will be 7:00-8:30 p.m., Tuesday, September 29 at the Chapel Hill Public Library.Emily Martine, chair of the local PAGE chapter, noted that the school board will be under pressure to ensure appropriate education and growth for all students with a reduced budget.“Our school system has identified 31% of its students as academically gifted,” she said. “For our community, our state, and our county to be competitive and innovative in the global marketplace, we must provide curricula that challenge all of our students, including the academically gifted.  We must also make sure that gifted education does not become an automatic area for cuts whenever the budget is tight.” PAGE has been supportive of the school system’s approach of aiding differentiation by clustering AG students, assigning gifted education specialists to each school to collaborate with teachers, and encouraging flexible ability grouping within and across classrooms.“Given the more limited resources we are facing now, we will need more creative options that will challenge gifted students to work hard and develop good work habits,” Martine said. “We look forward to hearing our school board candidates’ ideas, and to making them aware of parents’ concerns.All six candidates for the school board have been invited to the forum and five out of six have confirmed their attendance. They will respond to questions prepared in advance by PAGE members and other audience members.

Date: 

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

Chapel Hill Public Library

POTUS speaks to CH/C school children

From Saturday's Herald-Sun/CHH:  "President Obama's plan to give a televised speech to the nation's students Tuesday might be causing a ruckus in some locales....
But Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Superintendent Neil Pedersen has sent a note encouraging principals and teachers to make Obama's speech available to students Tuesday at noon if schedules permit.
Obama plans to urge students to work hard, set goals and to take responsibility for their educations. President George H.W. Bush gave a similar back-to-school address in 1991 and so did President Ronald Reagan before him.
"

No single episode has spotlighted the crazed, anti-Obama monomania of Republicans as well as this one.  There's such a stunning lack of acknowledgment of their own inconsistency that we could stand in awe if it weren't part of a larger, yet more irrational and predatory mindset. 

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