This fall 332 rising ninth-graders will be reading on a fourth-grade level or below in the Charleston County School District. Wouldn't you love to know how they managed to pass the eighth grade?
This number represents a reduction from last year's challenge: in the fall of 2010, 342 rising ninth-graders read at the fourth-grade level or below.
Ten fewer. That's 10 fewer after all of the hullabaloo about improving literacy skills in CCSD. Miracles do not happen overnight, obviously, but maybe just getting private tutors for the bottom 20 readers would have cost less.
Just a thought.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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Just another example of the super's spin machine. I think the P&C was on to something when they started to report on how many initiatives were started only to stop or change directions before anything could be measured. Why not finish the investigation? Or is the P&C just as misdirected as CCSD?
Diertte doesn't know enough about the history of CCSD to correct Bill Lewis's description of Charleston Progressive in Thursday's P&C. How much hope is there?
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Bill Lewis does know enough about the buildings he "owns". CCSD pays him a six figure annual income and he still makes it up as he goes along. He couldn't care less.
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correction....Bill Lewis doesn't know enough about the buildings he thinks he "owns". CCSD pays him a six figure annual income and he still makes it up as he goes along. He couldn't care less.
While I realize this comment is unrelated to the topic, I am outraged that Burke Boys' Varsity Basketball Coach Earl Brown, an icon, role model, and mentor to thousands, has been unceremoniously dumped by CCSD and denied his request to coach one more year.
Now that they have "reinstated" Earl Brown, let's get the truth instead of the spin.
It's just another "Oops, I did it again" moment for McGinley. She acts, the public reacts and she changes her mind. There is no real leadership here. It's just the administration winging it. They told the board to save money they must vote to not renew the TERI employees. It turns out only some of the TERI employees will not be coming back. That's not what she told the board. "Oops, she did it again."
The public is in the dark and the board is equally uninformed. The super and her appointees do as they please. When they get caught in a gaff, then it becomes a board mistake. To some degree it is a board mistake. But honestly, they don't have a clue what McGinley is going and appearently she doesn't either.
To McGinley this is just a game of playing the numbers. The trouble is, when examined closely, her numbers are meaningless. That includes her literacy figures, her budget proposals and even her ever growing inventory of administrative staff. Apply enough pressure and she will change her numbers to whatever she thinks you want to hear.
When she goes, and she will soon, let's get a superintendent who can tell the truth for a change and just say, "Oops, I got caught, again."
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