Friday, April 26, 2013

BUSY SCHOOL BOARD MEETING BRINGS PRAISE, COMPLAINTS

PATCH reports on a pretty raucous school board meeting Monday, with concerns ranging from new programs to mice in the classroom:


More than 60 South Orange-Maplewood teachers and members of the public turned up to Monday night’s Board of Education meeting to ask questions of the board and voice concerns over the state-implemented Focus program andInternational Baccalaureate program.
Melissa Butler, sixth grade teacher at South Orange Middle School and head SOMEA representative, spoke first on behalf of her association. Butler said she was concerned that the Focus program, designed to improve schools with a low performance and graduation rates from special education students, was being managed too much by the state and not enough by the SOMA teachers and families.


More HERE.

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