Interim Schools Superintendent Peter Carter has posted a new letter, this one to parents and guardians of students at Hubbard Middle School.
Click here to read the entire letter.
Anyone interested in the school district will have to check the district web site often to keep up. I was waiting for Carter's next letter to the community, but the Hubbard matter obviously deserves explanation and understanding in the interim.
When NJQSAC first came on the horizon, I was assigned to write a brief article about the community forum held by the state monitoring team. Nobody, not even my editor nor a veteran teacher, could tell me what NJQSAC meant. So for a very small article, I spent most of a day looking up information on the Department of Education web site and reading the legislation itself.
It dawned on me that this was a very weighty matter indeed. Depending on results and responses to the findings, state authorities could add board members, remove administrators, place state administrators in the district or even take over the whole operation.
If the school district's bargaining units have not been briefed on NJQSAC by their leaders or legal advisors, now is the time. Everybody - parents, teachers, administrators and the community at large - must understand the implications of NJQSAC, especially given the district's very low scores in the monitoring that took place earlier this year.
In the spectrum of school performance under the No Child Left Behind Act, Hubbard was glaringly bad. Consider that the state has more than 600 school districts and maybe five or 10 times more schools. Hubbard was one of just 38 schools in New Jersey that never met any of the goals. The system has remedial plans for schools that fail to meet Adequate Yearly Progress goals for three years, but Hubbard is in Year 7 of not meeting goals. The No Child Left Behind Act doesn't even have any provision for such a case.
All the AYP scores are posted online and there is some good news in Plainfield. But there has to be more. For Hubbard, there must be much, much more and the path to achieving it may involve drastic measures.
--Bernice Paglia
Click here to read the entire letter.
Anyone interested in the school district will have to check the district web site often to keep up. I was waiting for Carter's next letter to the community, but the Hubbard matter obviously deserves explanation and understanding in the interim.
When NJQSAC first came on the horizon, I was assigned to write a brief article about the community forum held by the state monitoring team. Nobody, not even my editor nor a veteran teacher, could tell me what NJQSAC meant. So for a very small article, I spent most of a day looking up information on the Department of Education web site and reading the legislation itself.
It dawned on me that this was a very weighty matter indeed. Depending on results and responses to the findings, state authorities could add board members, remove administrators, place state administrators in the district or even take over the whole operation.
If the school district's bargaining units have not been briefed on NJQSAC by their leaders or legal advisors, now is the time. Everybody - parents, teachers, administrators and the community at large - must understand the implications of NJQSAC, especially given the district's very low scores in the monitoring that took place earlier this year.
In the spectrum of school performance under the No Child Left Behind Act, Hubbard was glaringly bad. Consider that the state has more than 600 school districts and maybe five or 10 times more schools. Hubbard was one of just 38 schools in New Jersey that never met any of the goals. The system has remedial plans for schools that fail to meet Adequate Yearly Progress goals for three years, but Hubbard is in Year 7 of not meeting goals. The No Child Left Behind Act doesn't even have any provision for such a case.
All the AYP scores are posted online and there is some good news in Plainfield. But there has to be more. For Hubbard, there must be much, much more and the path to achieving it may involve drastic measures.
--Bernice Paglia
posted by Bernice at 9:11 AM
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