Educational Committee Appoints Subcommittees

Fairhope, Alabama

TIME RUNNING SHORT THIS SCHOOL YEAR

With the end of the school year rapidly approaching (May 25th)  the committee studying ways the city may be able to help local schools (next year) met Monday to discus the timeline -- and establish subcommittees to make initial contact with local school principals and the city's various budget committees.

Gretchen Schapker and Henry Clark were appointed to draft a letter to the five area school principals to establish a protocol for the planned interviews/school tours. Questions for the principals were discussed -- generally how the committee/community may help their schools; and meetings with teachers/students were to be left to the discretion of the principals themselves.

Also, Bob Riggs and Julia Sumerlin were appointed as contacts to the city's financial committees during the city's FY2013 budget-forming process -- usually beginning in May or June. They are to submit the Ed. Committee's eventual findings to determine the feasibility of incorporating them into next year's city budget (beginning Oct 1st). The city council has ultimate authority over all city spending.

CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS TO BE CONTACTED

The committee decided as well to contact various school/civic organizations -- FEEF, Faulkner State, Good2Great, Baldwin Mental Health, etc. -- for their own suggestions about the needs of the local schools.

The next meeting was scheduled for Monday, April 23rd at 8:30AM (Nix Center).

Comments

Anonymous said…
What qualifies Good2Great to be consulted by the EAC? They are a political organization. They have not spent one dime in the classrooms to improve education. All they do is bitch and complain while their argument for a separate city school system has become weaker and weaker.
Anonymous said…
Them there subcommittees better give notice of their meeeetings or they might just be running contra to the open get together laws. I wish the previous anonymous would not use the name of a female dog to describe the Good2Gretness group. It is plum offensive...if you know what I mean...
Anonymous said…
It seems like this committee may be making this more complex than it needs to be. And I fear they might go to great effort only to find that the city is going to be very limited in what it is actually willing to do. Perhaps it would have made more sense to have the city council give some parameters indicating reasonable possibilities, either dollar amounts or in-kind supports, that the city of Fairhope might offer, THEN the committee's recommendations could have been focused on things that might actually be supported. I applaud the efforts of the members of this committee, but hope that they can come up with meaningful ideas that will in fact find support from the council members.
Anonymous said…
I'm waiting for the sub-committees' sub-sub committees to meet before getting too excited. I'd just like for someone to tell us all how the public schools get tax money, per student, annually that is roughly the equivalent of annual tuition to Bayside Academy...yet the public schools act like they can't afford toilet paper.
Anonymous said…
Maybe you should use corn cobs...dude..
Anonymous said…
"Maybe you should use corn cobs...dude"

Huh? Maybe you should use your brain when typing.