CCSD School Board Opts for Long-Term Planning

Wonders will never cease. Next thing you know Superintendent McGinley will voluntarily give up the fat increase she received in her transportation allowance when gasoline was near $5 per gallon!

Well, maybe wonders won't go that far, but the CCSD School Board's common sense vote on Monday night does show that if parents are vocal enough, the Board does listen. [See Staying Put in the on-line edition.)

Now is the time to plan for long-term (and sensible) alterations to existing buildings in CCSD. How about a second opinion on those five identified "seismically deficient" ones? How about other buildings that might be at risk (such as the old Academic Magnet campus, ridiculously suggested as a place to house students from other deficient buildings).

The result for the Superintendent will be that her list of problem schools will remain the same, and Bill Lewis will be unhappy.

Meanwhile, sales tax or property tax increases? Can anyone at 75 Calhoun hear the mood of the taxpayers yet?