I wish that school choice was as simple as you described. Ultimately, School choice = school privilege. There absolutely were a ton of inequities throughout the district prior to Dr Morgan’s arrival. I agree it absolutely is about ALL OF THE STUDENTS. And has been or at least should have been about all of the students.
However when there’s silence after a student is gunned down in front of their high school, or the parents than can either sacrifice to get their children to their school of choice or be forced to attend one of the non star schools closer to home I begin to wonder if we are being honest and fair in critique. After all these things happened on the previous administration watch. If the accolades are Eric Gordon’s to claim then so too should be some if not a majority of the criticism.
I had two students at campus, you used to give them rides. Now one is at John hay and the other at ignatius. Not everyone had a great experience at that school and there’s a lot to be said about how the school administration and the teachers union protected abusive and terrible teachers particularly at that school.
I am very concerned about the budget and spending but not just for now. How far back are your records requests for?
I once worked at a place where we thought the org was good. Now that same org laid me off almost a year ago and last I hear is sunsetting less than 18 months after the new ceo (who has since resigned) was hired. all of this is to say, while Dr. Morgan is a grownup and probably doesn’t need any help from me, I do wonder what shape was CMSD in REALLY when he took over?
That question isn’t an indictment on Eric Gordon either. I’ve gotten to know him professionally over the years and have what I believe is a mutual respect for him.
I just want to know a bigger, more zoomed out picture because it just seems hard to believe that everything fell apart since Dr Morgan got to Cleveland.
Typically, when I am making records requests about budget and building fiscal questions, I try to go back to at least 2020 and sometimes 2018. I also make records requests of similar items (IB spending, for example) from other districts, for multiple years, because I do want to compare. Many of my tips come from within the walls of 1111 Superior and they are often specific, so that is what I make the records request about. I can sometimes turn that into a multi-year request, like the Mosely furniture bacchanal that happened under both Gordon and Morgan. I have over 20 records requests unfulfilled (including line-item budgets for several years), most of them are multi-year spending requests. I believe all public employees or people who benefit from public dollars deserve scrutiny and I've figured out a way to do that in an area which I am quite familiar.
Our experience at Campus hasn't always been great. Sixth grade for Noa was wrecked by antisemitism. But Campus remains the best, free option for our family. I feel fortunate that we have options.
Wouldn’t you almost always have to go back to at least 2018 for an apples to apples comparison? 2020-2022 seems like an anomalous period i.e. ARPA $$, virtual learning and the tools associated, added supports to reopen schools. All of those factors are no longer available and or needed…although I would like for them to be. As an example, on a personal level we used to get hot spots and also got government supported internet access. Those dollars ran out so now I have to pay the bill just like everyone else does. So wouldn’t it make sense to look at the spending pre Covid to get a full sense of what is happening here. Further I’d love to see/hear your findings from your research.
The hot spots and internet connectivity were supposed to be paid for by Issue 68. We voted for it. It passed. But now the hot spots are gone.
On some things, yes going back to 2018 works, and I skip 2020 and 2021 in the requests.
If you are interested, my wife wrote a paper critical of Eric Gordon and closing schools as a turn around plan. She and another professer from CSU started writing it in 2012 but was finally published in 2020 and you can find it by simple Google search.
I wish that school choice was as simple as you described. Ultimately, School choice = school privilege. There absolutely were a ton of inequities throughout the district prior to Dr Morgan’s arrival. I agree it absolutely is about ALL OF THE STUDENTS. And has been or at least should have been about all of the students.
However when there’s silence after a student is gunned down in front of their high school, or the parents than can either sacrifice to get their children to their school of choice or be forced to attend one of the non star schools closer to home I begin to wonder if we are being honest and fair in critique. After all these things happened on the previous administration watch. If the accolades are Eric Gordon’s to claim then so too should be some if not a majority of the criticism.
I had two students at campus, you used to give them rides. Now one is at John hay and the other at ignatius. Not everyone had a great experience at that school and there’s a lot to be said about how the school administration and the teachers union protected abusive and terrible teachers particularly at that school.
I am very concerned about the budget and spending but not just for now. How far back are your records requests for?
I once worked at a place where we thought the org was good. Now that same org laid me off almost a year ago and last I hear is sunsetting less than 18 months after the new ceo (who has since resigned) was hired. all of this is to say, while Dr. Morgan is a grownup and probably doesn’t need any help from me, I do wonder what shape was CMSD in REALLY when he took over?
That question isn’t an indictment on Eric Gordon either. I’ve gotten to know him professionally over the years and have what I believe is a mutual respect for him.
I just want to know a bigger, more zoomed out picture because it just seems hard to believe that everything fell apart since Dr Morgan got to Cleveland.
Typically, when I am making records requests about budget and building fiscal questions, I try to go back to at least 2020 and sometimes 2018. I also make records requests of similar items (IB spending, for example) from other districts, for multiple years, because I do want to compare. Many of my tips come from within the walls of 1111 Superior and they are often specific, so that is what I make the records request about. I can sometimes turn that into a multi-year request, like the Mosely furniture bacchanal that happened under both Gordon and Morgan. I have over 20 records requests unfulfilled (including line-item budgets for several years), most of them are multi-year spending requests. I believe all public employees or people who benefit from public dollars deserve scrutiny and I've figured out a way to do that in an area which I am quite familiar.
Our experience at Campus hasn't always been great. Sixth grade for Noa was wrecked by antisemitism. But Campus remains the best, free option for our family. I feel fortunate that we have options.
Wouldn’t you almost always have to go back to at least 2018 for an apples to apples comparison? 2020-2022 seems like an anomalous period i.e. ARPA $$, virtual learning and the tools associated, added supports to reopen schools. All of those factors are no longer available and or needed…although I would like for them to be. As an example, on a personal level we used to get hot spots and also got government supported internet access. Those dollars ran out so now I have to pay the bill just like everyone else does. So wouldn’t it make sense to look at the spending pre Covid to get a full sense of what is happening here. Further I’d love to see/hear your findings from your research.
The hot spots and internet connectivity were supposed to be paid for by Issue 68. We voted for it. It passed. But now the hot spots are gone.
On some things, yes going back to 2018 works, and I skip 2020 and 2021 in the requests.
If you are interested, my wife wrote a paper critical of Eric Gordon and closing schools as a turn around plan. She and another professer from CSU started writing it in 2012 but was finally published in 2020 and you can find it by simple Google search.