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Grading policy convenient timing for charter school vote —Barbara Stratton

Received Monday on

Media flap over Lowndes grading. -jsq

I found the controversy over the Lowndes Grading Policy convenient


timing for last week’s House vote on HR 1162 for a GA Constitutional
Amendment to allow the state to establish Charter Schools with no
oversight by local boards of education. HR 1162 failed the necessary
2/3 vote on 02/08/12. However,it was approved to be reconsidered on
02/09/12 so it has not gone away. Our 3 South GA republican
representatives all voted in favor of HR 1162. (No surprises there,
but we will remember in November.) Meanwhile part of the reason HR
1162 failed was the state Democratic Caucus undercut the House vote
by requesting Democrats deny HR 1162 in favor of their version HR
1335, which they say goes further in allowing state officials to
over ride local school board denials of special schools.

Obviously CUEE is not the only party interested in undermining and
over riding local school board authority. However, I suspect CUEE
had a hand in the phone campaign asking Lowndes school parents to
call Rep. Shaw if they were in favor of HR 1162 because we all know
that is one of their tactics. The message did not say to call if
they were against it. CUEE is definitely still very much in the mix
for discrediting local school board authority and our elected
officials are evidently in their corner.

-Barbara Stratton

School grading controversy successfully stirred

I don’t usually promote anonymous blog comments, but here’s one
received Monday on

Media flap over Lowndes grading. -jsq

The reporter didn’t call it “new”, Troy Davis did when he sent it to
all the teachers. Maybe you should talk with some teachers who are
deeply against the policy before you start ranting. And to correlate
this with consolidation is ridiculous, you’re just stretching for
controversy.

-Amy

Dr. Smith enumerated several other things which he alleged that reporter
misrepresented; see above link.


And Dr. Troy Davis

set the record straight yesterday in the VDT.

I’d be happy to talk to teachers, pro or con. Send ’em over!

“Stretching for controversy”? Around here you have to duck to avoid controversy.
You know, like the VDT saying it won’t publish any more stories about school
consolidation….

I see the VDT is not ducking this one, though, rather helping stir it up.
In yesterday’s story, the VDT announced mission accomplished:

The new grading policy for grades third through eighth released by the
Lowndes County school system in January has stirred controversy locally
and even nationally.

It wasn’t the grading policy that stirred controversy, it was Scott James, Fox News,
the VDT, the AJC, the SMN, etc.
And that “controversy” will make it easier the next time “unification”
rears its ugly head.

-jsq

Executive Director wanted —VLCIA

Get your applications for VLCIA Executive Director in no later than today!

Found on

IEDC for 18 April 2011
and also on

SEDC with no date,
this job posting:


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.

Starting salary $100,000 to $125,000, DOQ.

See

cb-asso.com for a complete Position Profile.

The Authority’s website is
www.industrialauthority.com

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.

Brief excerpts:

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