http://www.styleweekly.com/styleweekly/silent-treatment/Content?oid=1375086 Comments On: Silent Treatment by Chris Dovi en-us Copyright 2013 Style Weekly. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Style Weekly readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Style Weekly. Colby.Rogers@pilotonline.com (Style Weekly Webmaster) Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0400 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:00:00 -0400 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Constant Reader]]> Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Posted by Anonymous]]> Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly What about the board's LOUSY GRADUATION rate, the dismal DROPOUT rate, DIMINSIHING enrollment, LOUSY SAT scores, LOUSY middle schools, LOUSY athletic facilities ..... I would like to see a chart published showing these numbers and ask readers to decide what is more important "making" board members "behave" OR making the system do a better job of educating our children?
Posted by Constant Reader]]> Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Posted by Kim Bridges]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly
Well.

For starters, let's note that half of the links have absolutely no means to actually run a school system and be accountable for their decisions. RPS seems to desire the latter.

For the other three, to actually look at what they accomplish speaks volumes:

Naperville District 203 graduates 96% of their students at a cost of $9881 each.
Manassas awarded 50.85% advanced diplomas and 80.51% of students went to college in 2007
Virginia Beach awarded 50.89% advanced diplomas and 78.55% of students went to college in 2007.

You have to actually work to get those numbers as provided by the Virginia Department of Education.

In 2007, depending on how some of the data is manipulated, RPS graduated between 48 and 64% of its students, awarded 28.70% advanced diplomas and sent 66.05% to college at a cost of over $13,000 per student.

To paraphrase Dave Campbell of ESPN, please put up some numbers, then pop off.
Posted by Jonathan Mallard]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly
To say that the board already has a line item budget, albeit one that is missing some of the "details" your colleagues, constituents and taxpayers have repeatedly asked to see, is akin to telling one's English teacher that you have read "A Tale of Two Cities" when, in actuality, all you did was read the CliffNotes.

I don't know how many times I need to state that the issue of concern here is NOT the so-called "Code of Ethics." The issue here is that the board is attempting to deny to any board member (and the citizens of this city who elected them), their Constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech.
Posted by Carol A.O. Wolf]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly -Then fix it!
Posted by Anonymous]]> Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Posted by Kim Bridges]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Posted by Kim Bridges]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Posted by Constant Reader]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly
Amazing. Utterly astounding.
Posted by Carol A.O. Wolf]]> Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Posted by Kim Bridges]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Typical for Style to totally mischaracterize the measure for its own purposes. Anyone who attended the meeting and who understands FREE SPEECH knows that the measure was not designed to muzzle dissent, but to make undermining progress verbotten.
Posted by Anonymous]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Posted by Constant Reader]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Mrs. Bridges,

Allow me to set the record straight. When I met with the Superintendent at 8:30 a.m. on March 20th to discuss this matter, she said that NO ONE on the board had raised this concern.
Posted by Carol A.O. Wolf]]> Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Posted by jason C]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly Posted by Anonymous]]> Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Style Weekly