According to Thursday's P & C,
"The National League of Cities has announced that Charleston Mayor Joe Riley has been appointed to chair the league's 2008 Council on Youth, Education, and Families.
"The council works to assist municipal leaders in identifying and developing effective programs for strengthening families and improving outcomes for the children and youth.
Riley should really be helpful regarding programs to strengthen education. Look what's happened to the penninsula schools during his tenure.
Thursday, December 20, 2007
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Mayor Riley is resting on past laurels so old they've died and turned to dust.
As for public education, except for a high profile annual pep rally and the PR associated with a flash & dash reading program, he's done little to nothing for our public schools. Of course, he has played school real estate deals for all the sprawl it could produce...selling off classic downtown properties to developers and encouraging the placement of oversized mega-schools on the edge of nowhere.
I suppose the next title will be to crown him for his success in stimulating regional planning and cooperation.
This reminds me of Mayor Riley's little speech in The Corridor of Shame documentary.
The hypocrisy is disgusting.
Will someone give me the complete name of the Seattle Bog?
Thanks
Hope this helps:
http://saveseattleschools.blogspot.com/
Wait! Is this Clelia complaining about what others are doing while doing nothing herself (but complain)?
Riley has been an obsticle to public education in Charleston ever since he took office. His too infrequent efforts of meager support have mostly fallen flat...like placing the Academic Magnet HS at the old Murray HS campus on Chisolm St instead of selling it to condo developers. Instead he calls it success when he joins the chorus calling for training singing busboys and dancing chambermaids for minimum wage tourism jobs. Please, give us a break. Riley understands public education about as much as anyone who has ABSOLUELY no K-12 public education in their background, NONE AT ALL, not at any level, within their life long experience. This would include parents, spouse and children. He's totally disconnected from the subject of public education, though he does know how to play it politically to the hilt. What a jerk!
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