In somewhat election-related news, AdvancED will be back in town at the end of the month to assess how well the Wake County school system is doing with the issues the accreditation organization announced in March.
In the March report, AdvancED criticized the school board's governance and put the high schools on accreditation warned status. AdvancED identified seven action steps in its report and gave Wake a year to address the issues.
Ann Majestic, the school board's attorney, said a review team from AdvancED will return on Nov. 29-30 to see what's happened in the past six months. Superintendent Tony Tata has said they're seeking to fully comply with AdvancED's requested changes.
The contentious accreditation battle was brought up during the campaign by the Democratic school board candidates and Common Sense Matters, the liberal group that's been flooding the county with mailers attacking the Republican candidates.
For instance, school board member Kevin Hill has repeatedly mentioned in his mailers that he supports "protecting accreditation."
If Heather Losurdo defeats Hill on Tuesday, we'll see if there's renewed talk about taking advantage of the new high school accreditation program that was created by the General Assembly this year. There hasn't been talk, officially at least, of asking the state Board of Education to conduct the accreditation in place of AdvancED.
On a semi-related noted, AdvancED was in the Triangle last week to announce it was going to recommend reaccrediting the Johnston County school system. See this Smithfield Herald article.
AdvancED team was also in the Triangle recently to say it was recommending accrediting the Durham school system.
Unlike Durham and Johnston, Wake has only accredited its high schools and not the whole district.
Comments
After Hill is re-elected on
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 00:00 — jeffrey1After Hill is re-elected on Tuesday, AdvancEd will pronounce that All is Well, and disappear without a trace. For them it was always about the board (despite the fact that only our schools are accredited, not our system).
Even in your deliriously
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 00:08 — woodstockEven in your deliriously presumptive state, you revealed a nugget of truth. It was about who, not what.... a genuine political with hunt. Even you recognize it for what it really was.
Oh I am holding out some
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 00:29 — jeffrey1Oh I am holding out some hope for Losurdo. But one month ago, my expectations (in part due to your predictions) were very high, and crushed on election day. This time, I'm preparing myself.
Why is this news?
Sun, 11/06/2011 - 20:21 — Bob_SconceWe've known for a long time that they were going to be here in late November. What has changed recently to merit this getting into the paper again? Or is this just part of the N&O's run up to Tuesday? Will we be seeing something about the OCR investigation tomorrow?
The news is the actual date
Sun, 11/06/2011 - 22:01 — KeungHui (author)The news is the actual date of the return visit. We only knew it was going to be in November. I got the info recently from Majestic for a colleague doing the story about Johnston County's reaccreditation for today's editions. But the only Wake people who see it would be the readers of the Garner-Cleveland Record. It made sense to make sure that it appeared in print for the Wake readers.
So, you just happened to
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 06:43 — woodstockSo, you just happened to catch wind of it now. Yeah, I am sure that's it.
No. If you read the story
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 09:41 — KeungHui (author)No. If you read the story that ran in the Johnston County papers on Sunday, AdvancED was in town Tuesday. It made sense to note what was happening in Wake for their articles. Are you going to claim that AdvancED decided to show up in Johnston County last week in hopes of making it a Wake campaign issue?
Since AdvancED is highly
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 11:52 — woodstockSince AdvancED is highly partisan and has demonstrated beyond any shadow of a doubt that they desire to insert politics into their actions, yes, I do believe it is entirely possible that they timed their visit to Johnston County to coincide with the run-off.
Bingo
Sun, 11/06/2011 - 20:27 — FSandYOURunning up to Tuesday.
I know what's coming next, but I'll wait until it's made official to comment.
HOPEFULLY...
Sun, 11/06/2011 - 15:45 — ClearThinker...the AdvancED team will be greeted by a much different, much more professional and less partisan Wake School Board than the Keystone conservatives who put our high schools at risk with their antics.
You know, I'm all for Kevin Hill to be re-elected to the school board on Tuesday. We need apolitical, common sense thinking back in the majority, and he'll bring that.
But if Hill loses, imagine a Chairman John Tedesco dealing with AdvancED. What a catastrophy THAT would be.
Don't let that happen, District 3. Keep John Tedesco's fingers away from the power switch. Vote Hill, or you'll get HELL!
Uh...
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 12:27 — Bob_SconceYou realize that the visit will be before the next board is seated, right?
As to putting the WCPSS high schools "at risk," I note that the best high school in the state -- Raleigh Charter -- is not accredited, and seems to suffer no ill results as a problem.
The district should work to keep its accreditation, but only because there's a significant (albeit incorrect) public perception that accreditation has value, not because accreditation really does have value.
I am all for modeling success.
Mon, 11/07/2011 - 13:43 — woodstockI am all for modeling success. Raleigh Charter obviously has the right priorities and does a lot of things well. It would not be wrong to follow their lead.
Join us won't you!
Sun, 11/06/2011 - 16:19 — FSandYOUI'd like to know if you would like to join us as we welcome the BlackMailED team back to our fair town? We plan to greet them with flying fruit, signs and chants of hate and large pictures of the newly elected board members dancing, singing and supporting William BaaBaa. We might even bring in one of those mobile video signs to play the last 2 years of video tapes with Susan "the CPA" Evans and Jimmy "the Nut Job" Martin doing just that, supporting BaaBaa.
I don't really give a rip snortin' froth who wins Tuesday because as far as I and many others are concerned the children have already lost thanks to the inept voters who elected the CPA and a Nut Job.
Nonetheless, voting for Kevin Hill is equal to SLAPPING YOUR CHILDREN RIGHT IN THE FACE. Would you really do that? Of course not.
Vote for Heather in D3 or don't blame anyone but yourself when you spend the next 4 years in H E double L and your kids spend the next 4 years on the bus.
FS, "Here to help the stupid people to the door."
voting for Losurdo would be
Sun, 11/06/2011 - 23:41 — JoeTarheelvoting for Losurdo would be a 'slap in a different location'...............and would include lots of singles....
CONGRATULATIONS...
Sun, 11/06/2011 - 18:57 — ClearThinker...spoken like a true loser! Remember to take the seats in the back of the room while our new majority straightens out the mess Ronny and Johnny made these past two years.
P.S. - leave your "flying fruit" at home with the rest of the losers, will ya!