Wendy Lecker: Bill takes public out of public education - NewsTimes: "They say, "It takes a village to raise a child." Family and community engagement is integral to a quality education. Ensuring participation is especially important in communities where poverty, language barriers or discrimination have resulted in disenfranchisement.
Apparently, this lesson is lost on our governor, whose SB 24 will strip the neediest communities of any meaningful participation in their public schools with the creation of a "Commissioner's Network" of schools.
Community engagement was supposedly the heart of a 2010 law establishing "school governance councils" for struggling schools. State Rep. Holder Winfield explained that the councils were to create "a new relationship between parents, teachers and administrators -- to look at everything that's going on in a school.""
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