How can the School Board work more effectively with the Board of Supervisors on funding issues?
The working relationship will improve to some degree if the School Board communicates clearly the goals it has set and the cost of achieving those goals. Ultimately a real improvement requires stronger support of the schools from the public.
Like any relationship, improvement requires the willingness of both sides, and in the rhetoric of the current crop of incumbents and challengers for the Board of Supervisors I do not see that willingness. The next School Board must work to avoid and yet be prepared to work in a hostile funding environment.
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Agree fully that there needs to be a willingness for improvement. But from reading this recent article in the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com./blogs/class-struggle/post/when-parents-ask-and-schools-dont-answer/2011/10/08/gIQApXTmWL_blog.html) it appears that there's not much willingness from within LCPS administrators to work with parents to improve their own school. Given that, how do you expect the public to show stronger support for the schools budget?
ReplyDeleteAgree that it requires a willingness on both sides. Regarding needing more support from the public for the funds, have to wonder how that's going to happen when you have communications problems among the school administrators and the very public that you're trying to get stronger support from. A recent Washington Post article illustrates just one example of this.
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sorry for double post. One was done earlier today and then I didn't see it so posted again.
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