The real answer is in the first sentence after A: in this
FAQ by CUEE:
Q: HOW WILL UNIFICATION OF OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS IMPROVE EDUCATION?
A: School unification, by itself, will not improve the quality of
education for our children.
Tim Carroll pointed out on LAKE’s facebook page that Valdosta’s
Government 101
will be graduating soon.
Jane Fleming Osborn remarked that
It is an enlightening and eye-opening class you should not miss !”
According to the city’s writeup about it:
…is designed to give City of Valdosta residents age 21 and older
an inside look at how their city operates daily. Participants will be
exposed to all city departments according to the following itinerary:
April 4 Introduction to Class
April 11 Public Safety and Municipal Court
April 18 Engineering, Public Works and Utilities
April 25 Financial Administration, Industrial and Economic Development
May 2 Community Building and Neighborhood Development
Executive Director, Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority
(Valdosta, GA)
A very exciting opportunity with a successful industrial
authority with numerous assets.
Greater Valdosta is the business, cultural, educational, medical, leisure,
and retail hub for thirteen South Georgia and North Florida counties and
more than 1.2 million citizens. Valdosta and Lowndes County are quickly
becoming the fastest growing area in Georgia and are home to Moody Air
Force Base; two Regional Medical Centers; and Valdosta State University,
a regional university with over 13,000 students.
Digging around on cb-asso.com finds this detailed job description.
It’s four GIF images (copies
here)
of a VLCIA logo and three pages of a four-page flyer.
Leigh Touchton posted a comment with a report from
last night’s Valdosta City Council meeting:
I won’t stay to the end in the future because if they are going to
make public attacks on citizens and then go into Executive session so
they don’t have to hear a rebuttal, then I don’t care to listen to their
bombast. Yost apparently thinks
your public criticism of the activists not
staying (and also the Tea Party left right after one of their members read
from the Bible about how laws and regulation are a sin–I had difficulty
keeping from laughing out loud—we’re in a recession because laws and
regulation were thrown away and banks made a video called Banks Gone
Wild…but I digress)…apparently Yost thinks your criticism of people
not staying is something he can use to good effect to nullify the need
to publicly address citizen complaints. Here’s his position, distilled:
“You won’t stay to the end, I’m offended. You called our important work
boring, I’m offended. (much redness of face, some veins popping out)
You come in here and talk to us like that then I’m not going to address
your complaints, I’m offended.”
Well I’m offended that a grown man elected to represent Valdosta acts
like that.
Let me go back and educate the gentle readers out there who haven’t
What will you do? —John S. Quarterman @ VCC 7 April 2011
Regular monthly meeting of the Valdosta City Council (VCC),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 April 2011,
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
Before I started, the mayor noted that many people needed to go to an event at 7PM
(he didn’t name it, but it was the
100 Black Men Annual Dinner.)
He offered to proceed with scheduled business and re-open Citizens to be Heard at the end of the meeting.
Nobody objected.
I had already waited until nobody else seemed to want to speak.
Her church is close to the proposed biomass plant site.
Many children go to school near there, too.
She said she could feel that some of the council wanted to jump up and say something.
Children –Keisha Ferguson for Angela Manning’s church @ VCC 7 April 2011
Regular monthly meeting of the Valdosta City Council (VCC),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 7 April 2011,
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.
Solar power is the fastest growing industry in the world,
and south Georgia is an excellent place for it to grow
and produce jobs, with plenty of rooftops and parking lots
for solar panels.
What can get Grover Norquist and the President of the NAACP on the same stage?
A new
report from NAACP:
Misplaced Priorities tracks the steady shift of state funds away from
education and toward the criminal justice system. Researchers have
found that over-incarceration most often impacts vulnerable and minority
populations, and that it destabilizes communities.
And this is not just finger-pointing; it includes pointers on
how to get out of this mess:
The report is part of the NAACP’s “Smart and Safe Campaign,” and
offers a set of recommendations that will help policymakers in all 50
states downsize prison populations and shift the savings to education
budgets.
