Lynette Aytch, a director in the state's Smart Start program, became the fourth person to apply for the vacant seat on the school board.
In the application submitted today, Aytch said her four policy priorities would be high quality preschool programs, specialized services for students with disabilities and special learning needs, classroom diversity and inclusion and community and families partnerships.
"The public school system has a social and educational responsibility to advance policy that promotes and sustains classroom diversity and inclusion," Aytch said in her application.
Aytch works for the North Carolina Partnership for Children, which administers the Smart Start early childhood program. She is director of organizational development for Leadership Smart Start, which assists local Smart Start organizations.
One of Aytch's reference letters is from Stephanie Fanjul, a former Raleigh City Councilwoman and now president of the N.C. Partnership for Children.
So far, retired educators Doris Burke, Lillian Lee and Samuel Greene have also applied for the job. I've updated the applications for Burke and Lee to include items that had been missing before.
Venita Peyton has also said she'll apply. But she better get her application in before the noon deadline on Monday.
The board is expected to set the process on Tuesday for filling the seat. Unless there's a huge number of last-minute applicants, the board could opt to interview the candidates on Aug. 5 and vote that same day.
Click here for Aytch's application.
(Even though I've got some items running Monday and Tuesday, I'm going to be off for the next two weeks.)
Comments
at risk
Thu, 07/30/2009 - 03:34 — klanders65I looks to me like someone who would promote and operate from the position that we have to help the poor "retched refuse of your teeming shores." That is, the poor kids can't learn and we need to give them special services, which frees up all the quality resources for the powerful people.
Want to help? Share your story!!
Mon, 07/20/2009 - 13:29 — me_mcadamsI know there are a lot of passionate parents on this website. As a member of the WSCA, I’m collecting parent testimonials about how current WCPSS policies and practices have PERSONALLY impacted you. Please send me your stories, both positive and not-so-positive – I’d like to hear them all. Please email them to me by Fri, July 24 at time4WCPSSchange@google.com.
Please include the following information when you write:
1) Your name, 2) District, or base school, 3) Your story – the good, the bad, and/or the ugly, 4) Your satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the current WCPSS, 5) What, if anything, you’d like to see change and why, and 6) Whether or not you’d be willing to be quoted in writing.
Thanks in advance for taking the time to share!
Aytch is out of touch with Wake school issues
Mon, 07/20/2009 - 05:26 — designmanAytch says her four policy priorities would be high quality preschool programs, specialized services for students with disabilities and special learning needs, classroom diversity and inclusion and community and families partnerships.
Alarmingly, none of Aytch's top priorities include mention of increased academic performance, improved graduation rates -- expecially among economically disadvantaged students -- or more stable and family-friendly school assignments and schedules. We don't need someone this out of touch with the issues on the minds of students, families, and communities in Wake County.
Aytch Candidacy
Tue, 07/21/2009 - 10:06 — RMC10Just from reading her application, and admittedly not knowing about her, but knowing and following School Budget Cuts, School Board/Parents Smackdowns, and what Values parents want to see, I see only Aytch's push for more special needs services (just because of her prior familial and volunteeer attachments to this cause), more preschool services that have not shown long term achievement gains, and costs, plus the allocation of resources (depleted in this economy) for these types of programs, and lastly I feel the LAST thing needed in a candidate is someone pushing an agenda of more, more, more diversity clearly set out in her application leaning toward poor and economic diversity as the benchmark. Instead of natural diversity not only racial, but acknowledging positive academic achievement, and true diversity by mixing it up with higher achieving students, and assigning percents based on a mix of true academic test scores with highest to lowest being equally represented as the benchmark, not F&R lunch percents being the benchmark in diversity. Aytch is not in tune with what parents here on this blog wants, but would only be a good pawn for the same old-same old WCPSS board chessboard.
You are right on the mark!
Mon, 07/20/2009 - 07:59 — g88ky07It's the only seat the other 8 have any control over, so a candidate like this one is a shoe in!
Why can't citizens vote on this?
Sun, 07/19/2009 - 19:45 — changewcpssThis looks like another set-up for the school board. A status-quo board will obviously choose a status-quo candidate. So much for allowing those in this district to have input. It certainly is time for a changing of the guard.