- CCSD's official "who oversees charter schools" was not allowed into the building where the schooling takes place, but Gregg Meyers voted to keep the Sea Islands YouthBuild Charter School open anyway--and send it $98,000 more of taxpayers' money?
- Sea Islands has no general liability insurance, leaving both the church it occupies AND the taxpayers in CCSD liable for any mayhem or accident that occurs during its sessions, but lawyer Hampton-Green voted to keep the school open anyway--and send it $98,000 more of taxpayers' money?
- Sea Islands failed to notify the First Baptist Church of Johns Island that its program in which "about 10 students a year worked toward their GEDs, learned construction skills and built homes with community partners" had been enlarged to 75 at-risk students, a number too large for the space available--but real estate expert Jordan voted to keep the school open anyway--and send it $98,000 more of taxpayers' money?
- Sea Islands is now suing the Church because "it allowed district officials to trespass on its property" [that would be Church property]--but Douglas and Toler voted to keep the school open anyway--and send it $98,000 more of taxpayers' money?
- First Baptist members, who thought they were helping the community, must now endure the snail-like eviction process to rid its buildings and grounds of Sea Islands Charter while suffering daily vandalism and fear of abuse from students?
- even Nancy Cook voted against sending the Sea Islands YouthBuild more taxpayers' money?
While everyone wants to better the lives of these at-risk students, is that really what is happening in this case? And when the program was changed, why did CCSD trustees show so little curiosity regarding arrangements for its expansion?
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What's the black to white ratio at this school, Gregg? And what are they doing to try and ensure it's diversity is consistent with state law?
Also, why doesn't Gregg make Buist have 40% free and reduced lunch?
Did YouthBuild grew from 10 students to 75 students "over night" because CCSD "dumped" its "overage" population of CEP (Murray Hill Academy) discipline school students onto the charter school? McGinley changed the county school district's agreement with CEP last summer by putting out any student over 16 years old. Were these suddenly "overage" students directed to YouthBuild by CCSD? Is that why YouthBuild collapsed, seemingly under its own weight? How can anyone run a viable charter school with only 10 students anyway? Or even 75?
Janet Rose, Gregg Meyers and Toya Green wouldn't want Buist to have 40% free and reduced lunch. That is the free private school for their children and political cronies! They would have a much less valuable favor to pass out to those they owe or want to impress. Some of the "Buist establishment" is STILL bragging about their ability to help people get their children admitted.
Thank God their manipulations didn't fly at the Academic Magnet High School. It wouldn't have gone this far if a certain board member had been able to get a child into another magnet high school this year. I can only imagine the thought process: "How dare that school care so much about admissions standards! Don't they know the names of board members children when they see them on applications? Sallie Ballard has always followed along. Who do those magnet high school folks think they are? They are located in North Charleston for a reason! I might have to use my CCSD credit card on a yummy meal downtown to feel better about this!"
CCSD credit card? Who gets one of those and what are they allowed to spend our tax payer dollars on?
What is the story about these marginal charter schools? I don't mean the successful ones like James Island and Orange Grove. There are 2 more, East Cooper Montessori and Charleston Development Academy, which I know less about. It's the ones that seem to be in trouble that are of greatest concern. What exactly are these schools? Where did they come from and who are the people behind them? Youthbuild on Johns Island, Greg Mathis and Boykin Academy, both in North Charleston, are 3 charter schools that CCSD seems to always be caught up in some sort of administrative mess. These are marginal schools to begin with that appear to be skewed toward serving only minority school populations. These look like odd charter schools and at times seem to be just boondoggles created by CCSD insiders.
Nancy Crook, ahem Cook has a CCSD credit card. I keep telling you folks to follow the money and FOIA Cook's credit card expenditures and Jordon's travel. That will give you enough to write about for months. Get on it! FOIA this stuff
Why exactly does a board chairman need a CCSD credit card?
C'mon, people. I know some of you on this blog have seen Nancy's credit card. I'll admit I've seen it. There was a time when she seemed to really be attempting to rack up some frequent flyer miles or "something."
Hasn't anyone else out there enjoyed a lunch with Nancy where she "insisted" on paying?
Anonymous 12:46 PM:
FYI, many FOIA Requests have been served on CCSD by posters to this Blog and others. Therefore, if you want additional information, why don't you serve FOIA Requests and share the answers with the public? Information concerning how to do this can be downloaded at http://www.scpress.org/foia.php.
As an alternative, I suggest that everyone who reads this Blog send $15.00 to Larry Kobrovsky to help defray the costs associated with battling CCSD on behalf of the District 20 Constituent Board. His address is 123 Meeting St Ste 200, Charleston, SC 29401-2217. I am doing this myself this weekend.
I completely agree with the poster above.
Parents want to pretend Mr. Kobrovsky did an "awful" thing by "forcing" CCSD to end their quotas at Buist. Yet those same parents pull up in their Lexus sedans reaping the rewards of their free private education while the "others" wait at our failing schools.
At least Mr. Kobrovsky is consistent. He believes in following the law.
There's another misperception about Larry Kobrovsky's case against the racial quota system that was once used as part of the Buist admissions process. He challenged CCSD's policy, but it was the CCSD board that caved in. They never went to court, so Larry really didn't actually win the case...the CCSD board (including Gregg Meyers, Nancy Cook & Hillery Douglas) voted to concede. Without a court hearing, CCSD chose to voluntarily abandon the racial quotas it had used at Buist since 1986.
As a result, Larry's suit was moot and the case was dropped...by the actions of CCSD, not Larry Kobrovsky winning a case in court. Sure Mr. Kobrovsky had a potentially solid case, but we'll never know how the courts would have ruled. Instead, the CCSD Board voted to never let the suit be heard in court.
One thing's for sure. Less than 10 days after CCSD gave up without a fight, a Federal Judge ruled in favor of upholding racial quotas in a similar case in Michigan. If CCSD hadn’t rushed to give up who knows how the courts might have ruled after the Michigan case? So you need to ask the question, did Larry Kobrovsky win the case here or did CCSD just choose to give up without a fight? Sounds more like Gregg Meyers and the CCSD Board gave up…about 10 days too soon.
Perhaps Mr. Meyers really isn't quite as in sync with the heart beat of the courts as he's given credit for being. After reading the rulings in some of the civil rights cases Mr. Meyers has lost it’s beginning to look like his judicial prognostications have not been good bets. His reasoning has been especially bad when you look at what he failed to include in the arguments on behalf of his clients.
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