“Superintendent shall promptly notify the Board of issues which could result in potential financial or reputational exposure to the district.” Section 2, Line 12 of Superintendent Gyimah Whitaker’s contract with City Schools of Decatur. Last month CSD’s board opened an “independent investigation” into Superintendent Gyimah Whitaker after she was publicly revealed to have engaged her […]
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These 23 words link modern and extinct languages. You would have been understood if you used them 15,000 years ago.
Decatur's school superintendent says her husband's podcast has nothing to do her work. Her husband disagrees.
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What do I know about the New Markets Tax Credit program that I didn’t learn in the past hour? Zero. What did I learn in the past hour? I learned NMTC was created to help economically distressed communities attract private capital. I learned Decatur’s school board is considering applying for an NMTC award to help […]
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Is it too much to ask of Decatur's school board that it exercises the same level of fiscal and political due diligence as a diner considering the fish entrée? I'm worried the answer is yes.
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It is practical for Decatur to help people who live near busy commercial districts by banning non-resident parking on certain residential streets. I just want the city to price exclusive parking rights fairly. The city is proposing charging residents on busy streets $25/year for exclusive rights to park on a street near their home. Is […]
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I support CSD’s commitment to providing quality early childhood education to everyone in Decatur, regardless of their family’s ability to pay preschool tuition. As Superintendent Whitaker noted at March 25’s school board community meeting in Oakhurst, the best way to close reading achievement gaps in adolescence is with early childhood education that prevents the gaps […]
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I’m for early childhood education. I’m also for my local government not sneering at my questions.
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The English language is hard to master, even for native speakers. With over an estimated one million words in the language, not only are English words hard to memorize—they can be hard to properly pronounce and enunciate. Getting tripped up with pronunciation can make your communication unclear, or worse—make you sound uneducated.
As American English teacher Vanessa explains, many…
A quick look back on how CraftCMS is working out for me, after a few months of using it.