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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When does ACPS just admit for decades they have not turned around their smallish public school system? They should have admitted this so long ago and hired a Superintendent and special school board designated just to address it's low state academic rating and sworn to improve it.

Will another decade pass by and we still be talking poor academic standing of ACPS ad nauseam?[/quote]

Yup, we will.  It's infuriating, and it doesn't have to be like this, and it didn't used to be like this.  But it is.

It has been going since the early 90s, when the school board converted from appointed to elected.  The school board used to be Council-designated.  The board members reported to people who were politically responsible for overall school performance.  A useless board member couldn't stick around forever, because s/he would be a political liability for Council.  And Council could reign the school board in when necessary.  Love Council or hate Council, there were adults in the room.

Since something like 93 or 94, the school board has been independently elected.  Unheard-of people with no qualifications and no common sense run for the job; the job duties expand every year as the school board adds inefficient tasks; the decision-making becomes more and more questionable; and the results get worse every year.  Nobody knows who these people are and it's time for every single incumbent to go.  And in the future, Alexandria should return to an appointed school board.

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