Turns out CMS underreported 2004-05 student suspensions by 86 percent. Ann Doss Helms reports:
CMS cited “a communication problem” as the reason the district failed to report more than four out of five suspensions that year, according to the report. …
CMS Chief Information Officer Terry Middleton said today that CMS initially reported only the suspensions linked to violent and criminal incidents. The district later realized the state wanted all suspensions, including those for less serious offenses such as cursing or skipping class.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is 100 percent bullcrap. No other way to put it. No need to dwell on this for too long. Either Superintendent Peter Gorman is going to wake up and start firing some of the boobs he has recklessly kept on the CMS payroll or he is not.
Put another way, Gorman is either going to start building back public trust in CMS or he is not. Put yet another way, either Gorman comes up with real signs of change at CMS or another school bond is going to go down in flames.
Update: Huh? How the hell does a story on CMS deception morph into a racial bean-counting story on the “discipline gap” at CMS? Oh, that’s right. The latter fits the Uptown paper of record’s agenda, the former does not.
Straight off a cliff, folks. Straight. Off. A. Cliff.
