Why You Should Care Mr. Crabill has found quite the acolyte in Director Chandra Hampson. In the course of discussions over SOFG, she says his name over and over, "A.J .says we...." Now that's not too surprising given the direction the district is heading and that it is Mr. Crabill's work with the Council of Great City Schools is how we got here. But it appears that Mr. Crabill is working very closely with Hampson and we know she wields some amount of power over the majority of the Board. Mr. Crabill is going to continue to work with the Board as SOFG is instituted in SPS. In fact, his role may become more public as it did at one SPS Board meeting in the spring where he was on the phone during the meeting and suggested the Board stop the meeting to "self-reflect." I also noticed that in a district in South Carolina, when things weren't going to plan, he blamed the Board for not following SOFG to the letter. Look for that to happen here if Board members w
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I thought the parents were able to use their personal experiences to great effect, to illustrate systemic problems with SpEd in our district.
I was particularly pleased that the district provided the language interpreters, as they should. Something tells me that wouldn't have happened if we didn't insist. *Sigh* As it stands, we had to prod and prod to get decent locations, dates, and arrangements.
The SPED C-CAP should fail and everyone should be concerned with collusion between the city and the state in magically finding the district in compliance.
Folks this is a tear down and now that the state has lost it's NCLB waiver there is hope the state will take over the SSD SPED or the entire enchilada.
Maybe the state can find the missing millions?
--Michael
Monday, 4/28/14
7pm, Rm 2700 JSCEE
Topic is Practical Ways to Support your student with Dyslexia or Dysgraphia. Presenter is Dr. Nicole Swedberg.
Swedberg is a dyslexia specialist in private practice, and former literacy specialist with Seattle Schools.