This Administration and Board do. not. care. They probably can’t be arsed to check to see if they are violating rules, they probably don’t even know the rules, and they have shown time and again that even if they do any of the above, they do not care. They do what they want. None of this is shocking. I’d love to see what their comment is on this. I bet it’s….crickets.
In my dealings with the PAC lately, they’ve been much more responsive than the AAGs that staffed the office maybe 5 years ago. I mean you saw how quickly they rapped the city on the knuckles for the OMA violation re: city office leases. Hopefully they’ll jump in here.
I lost my case against the city trying to get the recordings of those minutes - too bad. I have another case open with D65 regarding using Dr. Turner's contract to hide discussions about the residency requirement.
For what it's worth apparently the SAP committee recommendations weren't followed. Several months ago there was a discussion on Facebook where one of the people who was on the committee said as much. They said SAP reviewed all the schools to decide what stays open and "build 5th ward + close BR" was not the recommendation.
Wow! I cannot believe "build 5th ward + close BR" was not the recommendation. Yet, the superintendent and several board members made it sound like they were following SAP committee recommendations. This is yet another slap in the face to the BR community and anyone who cares about wall-to-wall TWI. Tom is making a great point about the SAP committee possibly violating the OMA.
Who actually knows because we don’t have any of the public records that should go along with discussions like this. It's almost like they should pass a law or something mandating that meetings of this kind be "open" :)
I have a feeling that there are reasons why the answer to my question has already been no because it feels like such an obvious solution. Why are we not building the new school in the Fifth Ward as the future home of the Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies? This seems like both sides win so I'm sure there's something I haven't thought of. But this way the fifth ward would get a school and as Rhodes is the magnet school doesn't that mean a majority of the kids are being bussed anyway?
Initially, BR parents were told that the new school would be the home for BR students, a school within the school model and then, that was dropped as if it were never said.
This Administration and Board do. not. care. They probably can’t be arsed to check to see if they are violating rules, they probably don’t even know the rules, and they have shown time and again that even if they do any of the above, they do not care. They do what they want. None of this is shocking. I’d love to see what their comment is on this. I bet it’s….crickets.
I'm writing a letter to the IL AG Public Access counselor right now.
In my dealings with the PAC lately, they’ve been much more responsive than the AAGs that staffed the office maybe 5 years ago. I mean you saw how quickly they rapped the city on the knuckles for the OMA violation re: city office leases. Hopefully they’ll jump in here.
I lost my case against the city trying to get the recordings of those minutes - too bad. I have another case open with D65 regarding using Dr. Turner's contract to hide discussions about the residency requirement.
For what it's worth apparently the SAP committee recommendations weren't followed. Several months ago there was a discussion on Facebook where one of the people who was on the committee said as much. They said SAP reviewed all the schools to decide what stays open and "build 5th ward + close BR" was not the recommendation.
Wow! I cannot believe "build 5th ward + close BR" was not the recommendation. Yet, the superintendent and several board members made it sound like they were following SAP committee recommendations. This is yet another slap in the face to the BR community and anyone who cares about wall-to-wall TWI. Tom is making a great point about the SAP committee possibly violating the OMA.
Who actually knows because we don’t have any of the public records that should go along with discussions like this. It's almost like they should pass a law or something mandating that meetings of this kind be "open" :)
I have a feeling that there are reasons why the answer to my question has already been no because it feels like such an obvious solution. Why are we not building the new school in the Fifth Ward as the future home of the Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies? This seems like both sides win so I'm sure there's something I haven't thought of. But this way the fifth ward would get a school and as Rhodes is the magnet school doesn't that mean a majority of the kids are being bussed anyway?
Initially, BR parents were told that the new school would be the home for BR students, a school within the school model and then, that was dropped as if it were never said.
The Board somehow figured out the worst possible way to handle the situation