Covington Tap Dances Around City Schools Decline

[Loren Swelk]

Am I the only one who read today's Annual Schools Report in the Chieftain and got the uneasy feeling that Dr. Covington was doing some sidestepping and giving us the old "wait 'til next year" rhetoric. "Significant Decline" is not a term that was used when the fawning school board extended his contract into the next decade. It will be interesting to see if the school board has a spine and places the blame where it belongs or will they allow the superintendant to deflect his failure onto the 300 or so well meaning citizens he rounded up to take the blame. If "Signicant Decline" appears in next years report maybe we should look to District 70's superintendant, he seems to be doing the job at a little more than half of the pay and I believe that his family at least lives in the state of Colorado. Sour grapes? Yes I will admit to it. Something has to be done or we will be so far down the toilet bowl that Dr. Covington's successor will have little more to work with than a plunger.

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Nahh, I read it and responded earlier this AM . . In another thread up here . . Dunno who to blame, but all the D60 much touted reading programs crashed this time around . . dunno what caused that, but it needs to be looked into . . even Hernandez' Caesar Chavez Acedemy dumped . .

It would appear by the schools named, that a large percentage of the schools having trouble are in highly Hispanic populated areas, leading one to believe that it's ethnically related . . But why would that be?

Did Covington piss the Teacher's Union Off . . or what . . ?

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for SAR success, says Jan Reed, D70 school board president in Chieftain article.

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Yeah, but . . didja ever notice the rush to the Microphone is when there's a success that people might share . .

But no such rush when the news is not so good . . Hmmmm?