First Staff Meeting for Well-Resourced/Closed Schools Underattended

 I heard from a source that the first of five STAFF meetings on the well-resourced/closed schools plan was woefully underattended - just 15 people. Sarah Pritchett, head of HR, led the meeting. There were no school board members present but they had their own engagement meeting on Wednesday for the ‘vision and values” for the new Strategic Plan. 

Apparently, because there were so few people, the audience members were allowed to ask questions at this meeting. There was one about option schools that didn’t get a real answer. 

They did have a timeline slide.

Looks like the time up to the announcement on or around June 10th from the Superintendent of the preliminary list is “Phase 1.0-1.5.”

Phase 2 starts the legally required 30 days of “public review,” followed by the site-base hearings for each named school that have to fall within 90 days after the public review. After that the Board will have a BAR (Board Action Report) at the next Board meeting after the hearings and the Superintendent will submit his final recommendations.

After that, there is a 14-day “public review” of those recommendations followed by “Board Action,” meaning a Board vote. 

Phase 3 is what the district is calling “Onward.”

Gotta say, it’s kinda like the Titanic “full-speed ahead” without seeing that iceberg in the form of the distress and grief and upheaval all around the district. I guess that Board is going with the old song, “Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative.” As if that is possible.