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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My biggest take-away from these 21 pages is that I'm becoming more concerned, not less, about who is minding the shop so to speak. [/quote]

We have lived here a long time (since 1987). We spoke out on ACPS our first year here and have ever since. ACPS has gone through many Superintendents and many Boards, as well as crazy ideology changes and central staff turnover since 1987.

ACPS has not improved it's overall standing in Virginia by much such 1987. It's a sad fact for we taxpayers, given Arlington and Fairfax County success. I'm tired of the ACPS excuses. Are we not to speak up? If so, why not? [b]And where is our City Council on these matters?[/b][/quote]

Yup.  They're nowhere, and that's by design.  In 1993, the city charter was changed and the school board became independently elected for the first time.  School board no longer had adult supervision.  School board candidates could attain office via a popularity contest.  School board members who were incompetent, or self-service, or nuts could no longer be removed by council.  School board could pursue policies that are totally inconsistent with City finances, or revenues, or policy priorities.  From that day forward, it has gotten worse and worse.

In fact, school board's #1 priority is the re-election of its own membership.  Look at the school board "reconfiguration" plan, adopted unanimously at the 6/21/18 school board meeting.  The very first item that school board considered, in connection with their proposal to reduce school board size, is whether incumbents could be more easily [b][u]united[/u][/b] by challengers.  This is who these people are.  See p. 15 at http://esbpublic.acps.k12.va.us/attachments/be77a3a7-bcd7-4ca0-9faf-2ac3b32c2fbf.pdf .

It's long past time to get rid of this board of malicious incompetents.  School board needs to report to people who perceive political vulnerability and will directly supervise school board.  School board should be appointed, not elected.  
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* unseated, not united 
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