Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The Pressure Is On
News comes to the Memphis City Schools that it is a finalist of a grant of $100 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. If the Memphis school system wins, it would use the money to improve U.S. teacher quality. Goodness knows it is needed in a system that has way too many incompetent teachers. MCS Supt. Kriner Cash called it "extraordinarily good news." Cash said this "only means that we are moving forward" in the process. Other school systems in the running are Atlanta, Hillsborough, Fla., Prince George's County, Md., West Palm Beach, Fla., Omaha, Neb., Denver, Los Angeles Charter School Management Corp., and Pittsburgh. The pressure is on Memphis' troubled system and it would be a hard pill to swallow. Saying we made the final cut isn't good enough, is it? It would be devastating on a national scale.
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It would not be devastating to me! We have to match $50 million dollars to get the $100 million. We do not have the money!! They are already talking about raising our taxes. The MCS school board and the city and county governments do not know how to say, "can we save money here?" and the word NO. I say thanks but no thanks.
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