Former School Board member has ideas for new superintendent
Carol A.O. Wolf, a frequent commenter on North Richmond News and the 3rd District’s former School Board representative, offers some thoughts about how new school Superintendent Yvonne Brandon could deliver in her role in a Back Page editorial in the latest issue of Style Weekly: The proposed closing of Chandler Middle School for failure to become […]
Carol A.O. Wolf, a frequent commenter on North Richmond News and the 3rd District’s former School Board representative, offers some thoughts about how new school Superintendent Yvonne Brandon could deliver in her role in a Back Page editorial in the latest issue of Style Weekly:
The proposed closing of Chandler Middle School for failure to become accredited presents a perfect opportunity to expand middle school choices and simultaneously make significant progress to ensure our schools comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
If Richmond Community High School were to close and relocate to the Chandler building, the school system could easily add a middle school component to Community’s curriculum and provide an additional rich and rigorous middle school choice for Richmond families.
Another easily attainable reform would be to add a middle school component to Franklin Military Academy. If such a concept works for Benedictine High School, why shouldn’t public school parents have that choice? Brandon and the School Board could even place Franklin (and its expanded middle school) in the Chandler building and relocate Community High to Franklin’s current location.
Franklin is fully compliant with the disabilities act, as is nearly Chandler. Still, each building would need to be upgraded to provide state-of-the-art technology for 21st century learning opportunities. Similarly, Henderson Middle School is nearly compliant and if the School Board and Brandon were to accept City Councilman Chris Hilbert’s offer to find money for a middle-years International Baccalaureate (I.B.) program at Henderson, we would have yet another choice middle school.
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