Here we go.
CMS superintendent Peter Gorman has officially started his job. By hinting that next year’s bond package, probably in the $500 million range, will tilt even more heavily toward suburban crowding rather than urban renovation, Gorman has now entered the minefield. Watch for the reaction to that very common-sense observation.
And the great principal re-shuffling has begun. Love to hear how parents feel about Providence High losing an assistant principal to Harding and replacing her with the guy Gorman fired from the top job at Waddell.
Update: WSOC’s Tim Caputo reported today that after being embarassed by Harding High kids telling the world that their AP math class has been taught by an art substitute teacher all year, Gorman says he may take qualified math teachers from other HSs and move them into those kind of slots.
Let’s back up.
The basic problem is that CMS has located the Science & Math magnet at Harding. Manifestly, math teachers do not want to teach at Harding at the current wage or the school would not have open slots. Why not move the magnet program somewhere else, then? This is, after all, the kind of reform the CMS Task Force suggested.
The Task Force noted that CMS’ magnet programs are exactly backwards — trying to lure high-performing, non-minority students to low-performing, majority minority schools instead of giving talented kids in bad schools a way to get out. The latter choice emphasis would not try to play the socio-economic angle, certainly not at the high school level where courses of study really start to diverge.
