Poster child of board dysfunction works to change image, status
The new school board in Clayton County, Ga., has quite a challenge facing it. In January, the last of the newly elected board members will take their oaths of office-and the nine-member school board...
View ArticleNew year, new board, new attitude for Clayton County officials
As we move into 2009, it’s time to rehabilitate the reputation of the Clayton County Public Schools and its school board. For most of last year, Clayton County was the nation’s poster child of a school...
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Community engagement, great in theory but hard in practice
I’d like to tell you that every feature I write elicits tons of discussion and mail, but the truth of the matter is I’d be lucky if I get a handful of responses from my articles each year. So I’ve been...
View ArticleNSBA announces 2010-11 Recognition Program honorees
NSBA recently announced the recipients of the 2010-11 School Board Member Recognition Program, which allows state school boards associations to recognize exemplary school board members from their...
View ArticleThe week in blogs: A school board member’s ‘unabashed reasonableness’
Amid the clamor for an educational “silver bullet “ — be it charter schools, or vouchers, or more hoops for teachers to jump through, or more mandates from Washington — a guest columnist for Valerie...
View ArticleStates faced with ‘interesting times’
Listening to five state association leaders talk Sunday about the challenges they face might have reminded you of that purported Chinese curse: “May you live in interesting times.” Because public...
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