City hasn’t paid its $10M debt from Gulch compromise, says school system
You don’t have to be ‘rich’ or ‘wealthy’ to care about or value education.
Right. Doesn’t change the fact that working poor parents may not have the same resources or time to overcome poor schools. The data is clear on who is most likely to succeed.
Makes what you just posted moot.
If we all ignore data and facts then my point is moot.
They are Superintendent related, administrative related, teacher related
You really don’t know what you’re talking about. High income students in middling performing schools perform as well as high income students in extremely good schools schools. The inverse is somewhat true, although not as extreme. Your position isn’t based on facts or data—it’s based on an opinion.
Education starts at home.
Yes, unless it doesn’t. Your point makes perfect sense if we lived in a perfect world.
With the current structure of APS it is basically impossible to have what in education they call wholesale success
What’s the structure change necessary for success? What’s the model school system where over 50% of its students live in poverty and is radically successful?
I can point you to one system that has nearly 3x the poverty level of its home state, yet still performs as well as the state: APS.
We can have a few well performing schools but not the majority and to me that isn’t good enough.
Absolutely. The challenge is daunting considering the student composition. That’s why the challenge index that I pointed to is so…important. Too bad you haven’t taken the time to understand it because there is some potential gold in that data.
Without massive structure and leadership changes this will never happen.
Current leadership has made big changes. But tell me, what are the massivestructural changes that would make the system work for you?
City hasn’t paid its $10M debt from Gulch compromise, says school system
Yes, and the data show that’s exactly what’s being done year-over-year. I think it’s important that people realize that APS has downsized their central offices for the past 3-4 years. Funds from just these savings (about $8m in 2018) have been moved toward increased STEM, IB and whole child development programs. It also funded APS’s Family Engagement Strategy to better engage parents.
I think the bigger issue is the district was built for over 100k students and enrollment is half of that. There’s incredible amount of waste going towards empty or near empty buildings. The district has been trying to tackle this issue through something they call "right sizing"
The bigger point that needs to come across is that the district is moving in the right direction in terms of asset allocation.
City hasn’t paid its $10M debt from Gulch compromise, says school system
Not quite.
But APS has different challenges with its lower-income population, nutrition programs and reality that its infrastructure was built for more kids (empty/under-enrolled schools = money pits)
City hasn’t paid its $10M debt from Gulch compromise, says school system
Agree. The city is basically picking the winners on who gets the biggest prize of the development pie here. I would be more okay with this if it wasn’t one firm getting these huge city promises.
You know there is a ton of coverage of ignorant people who push pseudoscience in opposition to environmental topics, but what about the people who do the same thing in support of it?
This guy clearly knows little about green building technologies, indoor environmental quality, or how to effectively reduce cooling and heating costs and is probably making this statement on the basis of "well its hotter next to the window in City Hall" when the sun is out. There is no comment on low-e glass or building envelope design, just this dribble. If windows are so bad for building energy performance, why even have them at all? Lets just build 100-story windowless monoliths built out of sustainably sourced bamboo and high-R insulation?