Folks from near Atlanta will be coming to town this week to see what tips they can pick up from the Triangle, including from the Wake school system.
The delegation from Gwinnett County, an Atlanta suburb, will spend part of Friday learning about education issues.
Things will kick off with former Superintendent Bill McNeal and former school board member Tom Oxholm talking about their new book, "A School District's Journey to Excellence: Lessons From Business and Education."
Afterward, the group will meet with Ann Denlinger, president of the Wake Education Partnership, to talk about "promoting public responsibility for globally competitive schools in Wake County."
The final thing will be a discussion about the Wake Early College of Health and Sciences. The magnet school allows students to graduate in five years with a high school diploma and two years of college credit.
Click here to see the rest of their itinerary, which includes meetings with business, government and civic leaders.
Turnabout is fair play. Back in April, several Wake school board members and administrators were among a delegation that visited Nashville, Tenn., to see what they could learn there.
(I'm off until Wednesday and won't be responding to messages until then.)
Comments
Stop the Madness.....
Wed, 10/01/2008 - 12:59 — WuptdoPlease take a few minutes and send a quick letter to the good people of Gwinnett County.
http://www.gwinnett-online.com/
Just let them know your actual experiences with WCPSS. The failed social engineering experiments must NOT be allowed to spread. It is our disease, and hopefully it will be cured in December, 2009.
Lured by stunning book success?
Tue, 09/30/2008 - 14:47 — Kent Misegades (not verified)Maybe they read the McNeal-Oxholm book, destined to be a best seller? It is all the way up to a rank of #999,802 on Amazon's best seller list! Still though only one reviewer, me. I regret the money and time wasted on this puff piece.
Books
Mon, 10/06/2008 - 10:08 — Wake County Parent (not verified)This begs the question...and I ask because I have only recently taken an interest in the goings on of WCPSS...which school districts, either here in NC or elsewhere, are succeeding and should be/could be emulated here?
Good Read?
Wed, 10/01/2008 - 09:46 — joeciullaDid you read all three pages? It couldn't be longer than that.
Boring book
Wed, 10/01/2008 - 12:30 — Kent Misegades (not verified)No, it is 183 pages long. But I could only read three pages at a time since I kept falling asleep, it was that boring.
YES!
Mon, 09/29/2008 - 14:25 — g88ky07No MYR, no busing for "diversity", or personal gain and/or agendas, like here, I don't recall any reassignments, if so there were so few we never heard about it and the real estate market was booming. It's Atlanta, everyone wants to go and live there.
Right!
Some of those things may be changing now with the over crowding, so maybe that's why they're coming here, so that they can see how Socialism starts at the local level!
I'm sure the conversation
Mon, 09/29/2008 - 11:58 — Anonymous (not verified)I'm sure the conversation will focus only on the magnet program and all of the other ITB perks. There will be no discussion as to how WCPSS are viewed outside the beltine, the horrendous inequities in access to educational resources imposed by the magnet system, or the ongoing assignment and calendar issues. Well, they may discuss the folks outside the beltline but only in passing related to how to finance your elite school system for a select portion of your population......
Just another forum for WCPSS to spin their story. Maybe we could get the president of WakeCares added to the agenda.....
ROFLMAO
Mon, 09/29/2008 - 10:57 — joeciulla"A School District's Journey to Excellence" -- that ought to be a short conversation
HA!
Mon, 09/29/2008 - 10:41 — g88ky07That's where we moved from, I'll make a call and tell them to stay home.
There's not a THING they will learn from our ignorant bunch of wannabe leaders!
Spread the dumbing down of America Wake County, spread it now, ya' hear!
so were the schools there
Mon, 09/29/2008 - 10:51 — bigwinnieso were the schools there any better? worse? calendar issues? reassignments? busing for diversity? how's the real estate market there?
I bet it will be a self-fulfilling love-fest
Mon, 09/29/2008 - 09:56 — Anonymous (not verified)It will be a self flatulating event for BoE, Del, and Dulaney I bet!
I may be wrong, but my guess is that the deligation is like a deaf-dumb-n-blind fan club!
Instead, that deligation should should get out early and see our bus stops at 6, 7, and 8 am as buses go back and forth in all chris-cross directions spewing millions of $$$$ worth of diesel fumes.
I bet they won't spend anytime trying to quantify the wasted time, the wasted safety, the wasted funds, the wasted parental-support, sub-mediocre test scores, high drop out rates, etc,etc,etc due to WCPSS's abusive, un-wanted, and wasteful assigment and reassigment policies that have prevailed for over a dozen years even though there is no proof it has helped anyone besides the district administration lackership and of course the fraud-evil doers..
Then they need to go on a
Mon, 09/29/2008 - 21:26 — Anonymous (not verified)Then they need to go on a "trailer tour" of the Panther Creek trailers, and the HSHS trailers...
See folks, build 'em wrong. Too late once they're up, nothin' the taxpayers can do about it 'cept suck it up and watch the trailers roll in.
We just tell the parents it's their fault for moving here with all those damn kids, or we blame the local governements. When they give our planning folks their subdivision projections or population projects , we just loose the papers and then publicly blame them for never telling us about the subdivisions they've approved Heck, yeah, it works. And, don't let the towns claim any school as their own.
These damn "communities" think they own our schools... we have to beat them back every now and them. We tell them they can suggest names for the new ones we put in, but we vote 'em down everytime and our BOE names them. Can't let the slightest bit of "power" slip into the hands of local governements or the people. NO sir, we ain't runnin' that type of operation. Yep, it works.
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Mon, 09/29/2008 - 09:31 — Forget_not_the_...rofl
meeeeeeeeeeee
Mon, 09/29/2008 - 17:02 — Anonymous (not verified)meeeeeeeeeeee toooooooooooooo forget not
ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!