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The School Board has done everything in its power to ensure failure. How are they still in office and not in prison?

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Is now charter school: University Prep Academy with 95% minority enrollment

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"They could have carefully constructed magnet schools and special
programs to attract more white children to schools in black
neighborhoods."

Magnet programs innately segregate students within academic classes and most electives. The only time they interact may be in the hallway or during lunch.

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New York City’s five boroughs are about same size as Pinellas. Washington D.C. is just 68 square miles. Neither is noted for getting it right for all the students in all their schools.

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Another Campbell Park teacher wrote of students: “They don’t care about anything or anyone! They trash the building and their neighborhood. Need to teach these children a trade!”

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Lower overall enrollment; Fewer whites over the years in Pinellas

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“Teachers were saying, 'I don’t have the resources and training that I need,’” recalled Kim Black, former president of the Pinellas Classroom Teachers Association. “It was a terrible snowball.”

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Before, the area’s most disadvantaged children, including the relatively few with serious behavior problems, were spread among a large area, mixed in with more afluent classmates and given access to several schools’ worth of teachers and counselors. Now they were all concentrated in a handful of schools.

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Among Florida’s most populous counties, Pinellas is the least diverse.
Blacks make up only about 10 percent of the population.

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Have other districts gone through court ordered busing?

No one else played a role, except School Board members? Superintendents hire staff and establish curriculum

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Five of seven board members voted for the plan anyway.

Three of them — Carol Cook, Peggy O’Shea and Linda Lerner — still sit on the board today.

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Why is Pinellas County not taking action?

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Why is Pinellas County not taking action?

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Broward County created a
computer system that assigns a
“risk level” to every student
based on whether the child has been arrested, suspended, failed a class
or referred for social services. Teachers use it to keep tabs on their
classes in real time.

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“It produces schools that teachers don’t want to teach in and that are branded as failures by our state and national governments,” Orfield said. “When you go to neighborhood schools, whites and Asians get schools that function well and blacks and Latinos get schools that are impoverished and fail. “This isn’t a secret.”

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integration in Pinellas has been fought for decades

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integration in Pinellas has been fought for decades

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School board member limits need to be set.  3 of 5 voting members in 2007 are still on board

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district gave some schools less state and local tax money than other Pinellas elementary schools.

Took federal money that was to be used for extra staff and additional teaching time

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Scared to go to school: yelling, fighting, rookie teachers with zero classroom management. His B's and C's soon turned to F's.

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Colored Zone - Thoughts?

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In 2014, 964 black children were tested in reading and math at the five schools; 912 failed one or both subjects.

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Palm Beach County trains principals and district administrators to be
mindful of ways schools might unintentionally discriminate against
black children.

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Broward County created a
computer system that assigns a
“risk level” to every student
based on whether the child has been arrested, suspended, failed a class
or referred for social services. Teachers use it to keep tabs on their
classes in real time.

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In Palm Beach County, at Belle Glade Elementary — in one of Florida’s poorest places — black children are passing reading at three times the rate as at Melrose.

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Fifty-seven of 67 school districts in Florida recorded better reading
scores, putting Pinellas in the same league as the poorest, most rural
counties in the state.

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 Every time we fail one, the criminal justice system is a winner.

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 Every time we fail one, the criminal justice system is a winner.

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Erratic and the "failure factories" received less money than at least 50 other in district elem schools.

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is chronic

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where is the oversight on  the school board?

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where is the oversight on  the school board?

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Current superintendent seems to understand need for change with programs/initiatives he has added

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Ninety-five percent of black students tested at the schools are failing
reading or math, making the black neighborhoods in southern Pinellas
County the most concentrated site of academic failure in all of Florida.

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Teachers walked out of the classroom, more than half asked for transfers. Some classes had more than 12 teachers in a single year.

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9 out of 10 children fail math