board of education

The Clayton Leadership Group (CLG) in
collaboration with the Cooper Elementary School Parent Teacher Association (PTA) will be sponsoring a town hall meeting with the candidates for Johnston County Board of Education. This meeting will allow for the school board candidates to introduce themselves, answer questions on issues affecting the school system, and for residents to ask the candidates questions. This meeting will be moderated by WRAL-TV reporter Ms. Stacy Davis and will be held on Sunday, April 25, at 3:00pm at Cooper Elementary School(849 Mial St.Clayton, NC)
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Many schools in the Johnston County School system need improvement that could

only be achieved with committed and accountable leadership. We encourage

everyone to attend this meeting. Most importantly, please vote on or before May

4. If you have any questions or need further details about the CLG or

Here's a silver bullet solution to right wing (or left wing) propagandists trying to push political agenda's in high school curricula.

Let's find a way to opensource the stuff. All we need is one excellent online source of American History produced by the top experts in the field. It can include everything from history, including the messy stuff. Wherever there is controversy, cover both sides thoroughly and let students decide for themselves what to believe.

Why this works so well:

First, text books are expensive. Schools and taxpayers would save millions, if not tens of millions by finding all the material they need online. Less books for students to lug around or lose.

Second, less pollution/waste in terms of printing. Publishers may hate this but hey, our education system is more important than publisher profits.

Next Tuesday's Wake County School Board election promises to be a watershed event for race and poverty. I have followed the issue closely and today's Op Ed article in the Raleigh News&Observer by David Zonderman, "On school vote hangs our future", expresses what's at stake as capably as any observer.

Few recent school board elections have carried such historical and educational weight. Voters should remember the modern civil rights movement's struggles and realize that the fight for educational access and equity did not end with Brown v. Board of Education. That campaign for quality education continues today. In an increasingly diverse nation and an ever more complex world, all children need and deserve the best education possible in classrooms that reflect the rich and variegated human mosaic of America.