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Symone seems so narrowly focused on black kids with reading problems. David seems a little more open. [/quote]

I think that's her activist moment -- her son has dyslexia. But her concerns about other elements of APS seem based on the way APS makes decisions -- not using current research or looking at the whole child. So early testing for dyslexia, training APS employees on inherent bias, listening to experts rather than marketers about good uses of technology -- [b]those are relatively simple steps to take, and yet APS doesn't[/b]. [/quote]

There are no "relatively simple steps to take," and anyone who insists there are doesn't know what they are talking about and should be suspect.

For example, there are almost 3,000 teachers in APS. "Training" them all could cost millions of dollars. APS spends over a million dollars a day on teacher salaries, so spending a day, or even half a day on training is a major investment, and there are LOTS of things that are important training needs.

And who are the "experts" about good uses of technology? How do we find them? How do we know which ones are trustworthy? What do we have to pay them?

People need to just stop with the "simple solutions." We have 30,000 students, 4,000 staff, 40 buildings, and a budget approaching three-quarters of a billion dollars. This is a big, complicated, important enterprise. Candidates that are focusing on a handful of kitchen table issues instead of the big picture are not going to be effective in providing the kind of overall strategy, direction, oversight, and leadership we need. [/quote]

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