We can’t celebrate successful schools that don’t celebrate diversity, period.
During the State Board of Education meeting tonight, a fascinating conversation took place concerning diversity at Newark Charter School. While Delaware Charter Schools Network Executive Director Kendall Massett did not say a word during the talk, she did something that exhibited a distinct brand of white privilege that had to be seen to be believed. Lucky for me, I saw it.
Tonight, in a half hour part of their monthly meeting, the Delaware State Board of Education approved seven Delaware charter schools to be renewed.
The Delaware Academy of Public Safety & Security Board of Directors chose their new board President last evening. This board member was not on their board before last evening and he serves on another charter school board.
Special thanks to Kilroys for getting this damning information about Family Foundations out to the public (DOE should have first). The DOE Charter School Office and State Board have been the recipient of numerous complaints in regards to this charter school. For the past two years, it has been a litany of complaints about teachers, administration and students regarding matters of sexual harassment, bullying, discipline, use of P-cards for personal use and so much more. It’s all in here:
Why is the public first hearing about all of this now? Why does it take Kilroy (who is awesome by the way) to release it before the DOE takes any action? And you renewed their charter, knowing this entire history? And Gateway, a school for special needs children, gets stabbed in the back by the Charter School Accountability Committee over test scores while you sit there knowing all these laws are being broken over at Family Foundations? Are you out of your damn minds? What’s it going to take DOE, huh? In your quest for charter domination in Delaware, you have spit on the very foundation of education itself. I can see several people that need to be removed immediately, starting with Mark Murphy himself.
It appears several of these items were sent to other organizations within Delaware’s government structure as well, including the Governor’s office. Matthew Albright from the News Journal, why haven’t you or your paper written about any of this? Your paper has never received one complaint from a parent at this school? It’s like Animal House over there.
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