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January 9th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
Mimi, you’re slipping. Was it his last column that mentioned his “good friend” Taupier. Was it the one before that that mentioned his “good friend” McCallum? I think if you look a little harder you might see both mens’ fingerprints all over this thing.
January 9th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
Loretta, You beat me to the punch. None of this is about education of children it’s all about “the benjamins”. Let’s back up to where the Charter school was looking into the Rogers school. “why are we spending money on rent in the Bon Marche when we have a perfectly good building in the Rogers school?” let’s figure rent vs refitting and moving costs. Check out the numbers and get back to me. “Poor Elkin has lost so much money, what do say we help him out we might be able to get as much as 18 to 20 mil less our cut he’ll still make out OK and be rid of the biggest white elephant in town.” Ya gotta love this town.
January 9th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
“Returned?” They’re not the property of the Lowell School District, people can go whereever they want!
January 13th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
I agree with Mimi on this school. The failed charter school should be closed. Such charter schools harm all charter schools the same way one bad police officer can cast a taint on an entire department.
How many “second” chances should this school be allowed?
The Innovation Academy charter school has proven that charters can and do work. Let the good ones expand and shut down the failures. The same should be applied to regular public schools too.
But I am opposed to crap legislation like NCLB that has allowed Lowell to institute forced bussing of special needs students. Can’t have too many in one school because it could impact AYP.