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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rita Montoya seemed to be really speaking to this at the latest board meeting-- that while it sounds good in theory for teachers to differentiate, that it's incredibly hard to do well in a class of 30 students.

(It seemed like Niki Hazel was just saying they'd be in the same classes, but divide kids into a below-level small group and an on-or-above small group, and that the teacher would work with the below-level kids and then could maybe have someone else to come in to keep working with below-level kids while the teacher works with the other kids?  Which I would guess in most cases means the on-or-above kids get very little teacher attention.)
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Good for Montoya. Now let's put the pressure on for others to follow. Politicians are not going to "lead" on this but they will follow public pressure. [/quote]

I mean, Montoya sounded really skeptical but when Hazel and the other person said "oh we'll give them lots of training and they're adaptable, we'll get mixed classrooms right" she ultimately said "thanks" and moved on.

Does the Board actually have any power to push for changes like this or not really?  Because [b]it seems to me like they act like Central Office makes the decisions on this stuff and all the Board can do is ask questions and express general concerns.[/b]  Are they right about that, or is there any real decision-making authority on this at the Board level?[/quote]

Unfortunately, that is PRECISELY how several board members view their role. Several County Councilmembers feel differently and believe boardmembers can and should be exercising more oversight authority than they do.[/quote]

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