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Some of our children are exposed to an academically under performing school from kindergarten to the 12th grade. It is disingenuous for Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) to utter the words "no child left behind". The Cincinnati NAACP Executive Committee will take positions on radical reforms that CPS must embrace to gain support.
June 14, 2010 . Cincinnati NAACP Media Release . . The under performing Cincinnati Public Schools are: Carson, Chase, Douglass, Hays-Porter, Mt. Airy, Oyler, J.P. Parker, Pleasant Hill Academy, Pleasant Ridge, Quebec Heights, Rockdale Academy, Roll Hill Academy, Rothenberg Preparatory Academy, South Avondale and Ethel M. Taylor Academy. The Cincinnati NAACP believes over 9,000 children are in under performing schools. Cincinnati Public Schools has 35,000 total children that attend public schools. When you add Cincinnati Public High Schools to the list above the number of children grows to 17,500 children or 50% of children are in under performing academic settings. This means that some of our children are exposed to an academically under performing school from kindergarten to the 12th grade. "It is disingenuous for Cincinnati Public Schools to utter the words no child left behind. Many parents are unwilling to take a 50/50 chance with their child's education," Christopher Smitherman, President of the Cincinnati NAACP says. . The Cincinnati NAACP Executive Committee will take positions on radical reforms that CPS must embrace to gain support. A key reform will be teacher pay for performance. Also, the Executive Committee will review how teachers are evaluated and terminated. "It is very difficult to fire a bad teacher at CPS. The peer review process is broken. CFT must allow teachers to be terminated to protect the integrity of the teaching profession and most importantly to protect the children. Asking voters to support a school levy without reforms is unacceptable," Smitherman says. |
