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I’ve written about David Lawrence before. First as the new principal at Thurgood Marshall High School where he made great strides, then as he took the helm at the Dayton Regional STEM school. That lasted exactly one year. Last night, the Dayton Board Of Education made a smart move and brought homegrown talent back to [...]
A quick note- I didn’t see it in the Dayton Daily News today. The new President of the Dayton Board of Education is Ron Lee. The Vice President is Joe Lacey. Both voted to give GE a big tax abatement. Swapping Walker for Schooler didn’t change anything. Carry on.
I’m not going to tell you how to vote. That would be pompous and very Dayton Daily News like (although rumor had it- they don’t endorse anymore- I don’t know since iOS5 came out- their iPad app has been broken- so I can’t see the editorials). But, because I tend to tell all when it [...]
Despite just being picked to be on the school board from a large field of qualified candidates by a majority Democratic party board- the Rev. William Schooler finds himself the odd man out in the coming school board race when the Democrats endorsed the other three candidates in the four-way race for three seats. The [...]
Dayton Public Schools were one of the biggest losers when NCR picked up and moved to Atlanta. NCR paid a lot of property tax that funded the system and when the University of Dayton acquired the 25 acres with the former World Headquarters building for $18 million, that revenue went away. UD doesn’t have to [...]
In the last week, I’ve stopped kids walking down Bonner Street during school hours and asked them why they weren’t in school. The river of BS flowed freely out of their young mouths. My standard response goes something like this: “Do you want to grow up to be under-employed the rest of your life? Do [...]
Back in 2008 I wrote the following: I predict that within 3 years, Dayton’s Thurgood Marshall High School will be a school of first choice, much like the vaunted St. Ivers (I mean Stivers). And, I’ll be surprised if the parents of the students attending don’t know it as soon as this school year begins. [...]
I did a public records request to get the document that DPS signed off on with the 4-3 vote. Nowhere do I see any guarantees of performance for GE. I’m not a lawyer, nor am I an expert in tax increment financing districts- so I’m posting the entire document that was sent to me. I [...]
To the school board members, my firm, The Next Wave, is not under contract to do PR for you, we’re working on process improvement and improving enrollment. But, had we been giving PR advice- and trying to help you prepare for any future levy, we would have recommended a few things: Legislation that arrives on [...]