Turn first in your morning copy of the P&C to any article touching on the Charleston County School District; otherwise, you may miss a good laugh. Monday morning's meets that expectation. [See Bar Rises Higher for Schools.]Wait for it.
"Schools Superintendent Nancy McGinley said she's pleased with the district's overall results, particularly in terms of the decreasing number of schools that must give students the option of transferring elsewhere. That number has been cut in half in the past three years, and she said that's a positive for those schools and the receiving schools that might have been overcrowded. Taxpayers' money also won't have to go to transportation costs for those students, she said.
"'The investments we've been making in some of our highest-poverty schools are starting to pay off,' she said. 'And we think our focus on literacy is paying off.'"
As you can see, McGinley's goal (and that of the new PASS) is to cut transportation costs for busing students and avoid sending them to schools that don't want them. [horse laugh here] Of course, those savings can be used for transporting others from "seismically deficient" schools, or at least mask the true costs of that decision made last spring.
Now, how has the number of failing schools required to offer busing to others "been cut in half"? [horse laugh #2]
Could it be that a number of schools have been closed in order to make this claim? Nahh. We all know every decision is made "for the children." Not.
Include as well the schools that made the grade because the categories in the new PASS were changed and you see the reason for laughing.
We can count on CCSD to provide entertainment at the expense of its residents.
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As many parents at James Simons and Memminger have discovered, CCSD isn't making it easy for them to transfer to other schools. The cost of transportation may be as high as $2,000 per child, but CCSD isn't letting on. I don't understand. Why wouldn't the administration want these children to attend other schools at a lower cost while these two school buildings are being fixed? It would be both cheaper and safer.
Thanks to CCSD's lack of success and poor planning aren't all the downtown schools on the NCLB transfer list anyway? As a parent I would definately want my child to spend less time on a bus and instead attend a closer school, but all bets would be off if the choice was between a failing school and one that was no better. I don't see where the superintendent is able to claim any progress at all. She appears to be out of touch with the reality that most of us know.
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