A few years ago, Randy Bridges was the superintendent of Orange County Schools. He is back in North Carolina now, as the head of the Alamance-Burlington system. At a meeting with Elon University faculty last week, he commented on a group of constituents usually ignored by education policymakers: people who fund public education but don’t have kids in the system.
Said Bridges, according to this story on the Elon web site: “I want to find out what they expect as a return on their investment.”
This group is the majority in Alamance, Bridges said. That’s the case elsewhere as well. Nice to read that at least one bureaucrat understands it. Whether he translates that understanding into policy is another issue altogether.
