During my time working on Sesame Street many years ago, there was a game called “One of these things is not like the others”. Children were to compare a grouping of several objects and be able to point out the one that didn't belong. For example: Four green vegetables and a yellow banana.
Let's play the same game here:
1. Ms. Low is quoted as saying she is not a big fan of 'Race to the Top' and said “non-educators try to prescribe narrow quick fixes, and I think there was a little bit of that in Race to the Top.”
(I'm told Ms. Low has reduced the number of parent-teacher conferences. So much for feedback and accountability.)
2. Ms. Low instituted full day kindergarten under false budgetary pretenses.
3. From NewsTimes: "The percentage of New Canaan Public School students who achieved goal-level scores in the Connecticut Mastery Test [CMT] and Connecticut Academic Performance Test [CAPT] was significantly greater than the state average in each subject at each grade level, according to test results, which were made public earlier this month. [snip] Ninety-one percent of New Canaan third graders met or exceeded goal, as well as 89.9 percent of fourth-graders, 91.9 percent of fifth-graders and 94.9 percent of sixth-graders, according to data from the Connecticut Department of Education. Each of those four grade levels boasted the higher percentage of students meeting goal than neighboring Darien, Fairfield, Greenwich, Westport and Wilton.”
(Ridgefield didn't even make this list in the DRG. Actually, I think we were seventh in eight districts.)
4. Ms. Low “found” hundreds of thousands of dollars for non-educational expenses that WERE NOT in the budget and then couldn't afford to hire a literacy teacher that WAS in the budget.
(So much for educational priorities.)
5. Ms. Low gets a 2% raise
Let's play the same game here:
1. Ms. Low is quoted as saying she is not a big fan of 'Race to the Top' and said “non-educators try to prescribe narrow quick fixes, and I think there was a little bit of that in Race to the Top.”
(I'm told Ms. Low has reduced the number of parent-teacher conferences. So much for feedback and accountability.)
2. Ms. Low instituted full day kindergarten under false budgetary pretenses.
3. From NewsTimes: "The percentage of New Canaan Public School students who achieved goal-level scores in the Connecticut Mastery Test [CMT] and Connecticut Academic Performance Test [CAPT] was significantly greater than the state average in each subject at each grade level, according to test results, which were made public earlier this month. [snip] Ninety-one percent of New Canaan third graders met or exceeded goal, as well as 89.9 percent of fourth-graders, 91.9 percent of fifth-graders and 94.9 percent of sixth-graders, according to data from the Connecticut Department of Education. Each of those four grade levels boasted the higher percentage of students meeting goal than neighboring Darien, Fairfield, Greenwich, Westport and Wilton.”
(Ridgefield didn't even make this list in the DRG. Actually, I think we were seventh in eight districts.)
4. Ms. Low “found” hundreds of thousands of dollars for non-educational expenses that WERE NOT in the budget and then couldn't afford to hire a literacy teacher that WAS in the budget.
(So much for educational priorities.)
5. Ms. Low gets a 2% raise
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