Dr. Robert Walker

DPS: No agenda- No meeting? 48 hour rule?

Before I’d even gotten home from getting thrown out of the Saturday “Board Retreat” which wasn’t, there was a notice in my email about yet another “Special Meeting” this Tuesday at 5:30 pm. Email time stamp: 6/24/17, 2:02 PM from Cherisse Kidd. In accordance with Section 3313.16 of the Ohio Revised Code and File: BD Read More

DPS retreat is really an excuse to hide

“Mr Esrati, we’re going to ask you to leave” said Dr. Robert Walker, president of the Dayton Board of Education at their “Board Retreat” on Saturday, June 24, 2017. At issue was the board taking what was presented as a critical time sensitive vote, on a report from the Treasurer, Hiwot Abraha, a mere 4 Read More

DPS strategy: Meeting fatigue

No other school board meets as much and does as little as the Dayton Public Board of Education. Their agendas confuse the members, aren’t mobile friendly, provide almost zero usable information, and lead to massive confusion. They have a “Parliamentarian,” Joe Lacey, who is a member of the board, which is far from ideal: If Read More

Amateurs. School boards and quasi school boards.

If you have lots of meetings, it’s hard for people to pay attention. That’s been the modus operandi of the Dayton Public School Board under Dr. Adil Baguirov. Meetings were long, and many. Last night, where they had to pick a new president and vp and parliamentarian, the meeting ran 2 hours, and then into Read More

From ending gun violence meeting- to meeting a gun on the street

I’m still not sure what I was thinking, or if I was thinking. But, it has me thinking (and writing in a stream of consciousness style- sorry). I was headed back from the Wesley Center on Delphos where I had met with Dr. Robert Walker and Shallom Coleman and others to discuss ways to stop Read More