Schools survey

The survey closed on 9/21, but the results can be found here.

Ruby, you might want to get on Stephanie Knott's email list so that you find out about these things and can post them on OP. Or is there another regular poster who can put more education stuff up? I'd offer, but it's hard for me to figure out how I'd do that as a district employee.

I'm on Stephanie Knott's distribution list but somehow I missed this one. I will volunteer to post other content when relevant in the future.

And the Miss America contestant batted her eyes and said, "I am hoping for world peace and an end to the achievement gap in the Chapel Hill -Carrboro schools."

Did you fix the link Ruby? I just clicked on it and it worked for me. The document is big (847k b/c 674 respondents, multiple open-ended responses), and so it takes a little while to download.

I can't account for the distribution. I know I got it from Stephanie, but I can't tell if it was an internal-only email or one that was sent to everyone.

As for closing the achievement gap... I've got plenty of work for anyone who actually wants to help.

Thanks for directing us to the survey results. I was wondering what was being done with that.

Now I'm wondering how anyone can use this kind of input to affect policy. Any pointers on how the district will do that, Graig?

As for the achievement gap - the problem is not so much getting people who actually want to help, but coming to broad agreement on what is best practice, on how to spend our energies.

There is a process to develop the strategic plan that was presented briefly to the board during the summer, though I do not find that posted online in any of the agendas. The process is an administrative process so did not require formal board approval but was for information purposes only. There is a smallish committee of about 20 people including three board members (the three whose terms are not ending this November). When the plan comes to the board later this year, there will be further opportunity for community input in the process.

Mike,

This is somewhat off-post, but I've asked a question a couple of times on another thread that you may not be following.

The question is: how does the school board view the location of the new elementary school on Eubanks Rd. in regard to the landfill/potential transfer station?

There's traffic (also with the Town Operations Center), odors,etc. and Katrina Ryan has reported on buzzards attacking children in that area.

Thanks,
Mark

Mark,

Sorry I missed the other thread. On quick review, I don't see it in any of the recently active threads so will answer here. Feel free to redirect me to a more appropriate place to respond as needed.

The school board approved the siting of ES10 off Eubanks Rd. Not that it was much of a decision as the commissioners had already purchased the land once it was discovered the county and school district were looking at adjacent land and it's been planned as the next elementary school for some time. I am not aware of reports of malodorous or ornithological hazards at the school site, as there may be further to the east.

There will be traffic on Eubanks but this should not be significantly different than the traffic on 54 with respect to Glenwood or 15/501 for FPG. It would have been good to have put the school on the southern end of the park site but the topology didn't allow for this school to go there.

Mike

Now I'm wondering how anyone can use this kind of input to affect policy.

The school board uses the input when building the base School Improvement Plan that each School Improvement Team builds upon. Each plan is submitted to the school board. The school board approves the plan, along with measurements, etc. and then evaluates each school based on its performance at the end of the plan period.

How will the board do it?

Only time will tell.

This is an excellent question for the school board candidate forum, details coming out soon.

Thanks, Mark. To clarify a bit more... so the board uses the Strategic Plan survey to build each school's SIP.

But I'd sure like to see how the board pulls the threads out of the wide ranging and often conflicting comments from the public. I once managed an effort to sift through public comments to an agency's proposed regulations, then help the agency respond coherently to each thread. It was pretty intensive and meticulous.

How will the board do it?