First time I've seen this from a school board ... two days before school starts and with a state takeover looming, the Sumter County board met for 3 minutes and declined to tackle curriculum, staff and facility changes. Great work by greezbock aledlab
Superintendent Marcy Burroughs speaks to a group of Sumter County parents and community members in Livingston, Alabama, on Aug. 8, 2023. The school system is in danger of a state takeover after years of concerns about performance, record keeping and facilities. Rebecca Griesbach/AL.comSumter County will now push back the start of classes to Monday, officials announced this afternoon, due to shortages of teachers and bus drivers.
Instead, the school board effectively stalled all decisions for up to a week. Board members Sharon Nelson and Beretha Washington voted against approving the meeting’s agenda. The board president, Jeanette Brassfield-Payne, was absent that night, preventing a majority vote. Wideman’s wife, Lillian Wideman, is a board member who voted to approve the agenda.Parents packed into folding chairs in a small, wood-paneled board room Tuesday evening.
“[The state] should have been here years ago,” she said. “Dr. Burroughs is trying to set it right, but they’re just having so much backlash from the people who don’t want to change.” “This is not a blame game,” she said as she flipped through slides that showed the district’s dismal reading, math and career readiness scores. “This is not pointing fingers. This is about identifying and acknowledging that there is a problem.”
Burroughs walked parents through the data for each of the district’s four schools, breaking the numbers down by grade level. She showed them just how many students – not percentages – were proficient in each subject.
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