Dear Redesign Team: About that Marshall Design Team Meeting on Monday
The Redesign Team is moving forward on Marshall’s closure prior to a board vote:
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From: ”PPS ppscomms” <ppscomms@pps.k12.or.us>
To: ”All PPS” <allpps@pps.k12.or.us>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 15:25:27 -0700
Subject: [Allpps] MEETING UPDATE: Marshall small school design Dear Teachers and Principals,
We have changed the meeting location and added an additional information session regarding the process to select a team of educators to design the new small school on the Marshall High School Campus.
Educators who are passionate about teaching and learning in a small school environment and who are interested in finding out more about the selection and design process for the Marshall small school can attend an information meeting on:
Monday, May 24 from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the BESC, 501 N. Dixon Street, in the Windows Cafeteria on the 2nd Floor
OR Wednesday, May 26th from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the BESC, 501 N. Dixon Street, in the Mazama Room on the 2nd floor (go through the cafeteria, then left).
The meetings will be identical so there is no need to attend both. Thank you!
Sarah SingerProject Manager High School System Design ssinger@pps.k12.or.us
From the May 2010 PPS High School Design FAQ:
Are these changes set in stone?
6 comments
Amen, Carrie.
“Dear Teachers and Principals,
We have changed the meeting location and added an additional information session regarding the process to select a team of educators to design the new small school on the Marshall High School Campus. ”
This is just wrong. Excuse us, the community input period hasn’t ended yet? How dare they even presume to make a decision over a month before they vote… stop sweeping us under the rug! Expletive, expletive!
Anyone care to report on the meeting that was held this evening at Marshall?
Zarwen,
We held the meeting at Ararat Bakery on 92nd by Foster, close to Marshall. We will be having a meeting tomorrow night in the Marshall High School cafeteria from 6:30-8:30pm if you are interested in stopping by.
The main points of last night’s meeting:
-PPS must extend the 30 day public input period to truly hear from our community
-We want Marshall to be a comprehensive, neighborhood school
-We are the largest catchment area in PPS, with no transfers we have the ability to build a thriving school
-Like any other successful school, we demand equity in educational offerings
-We propose the creation of an Advisory Committee consisting of students, families and community members to guide Marshall toward a successful future
We chose, and we want a comprehensive. Student support for a focus option is practically nonexistant and the comprehensive is preferred- it is the best option we have for our students and community.
Christina, you are right on! All we want is what everyone else has. Why is that so hard!! We shouldn’t need to go to Franklin or Madison to get it. I’m tired of having my kids and other kids in our community thrown under the bus so others can preserve their programs. I have seen the failures of our small schools. We started with four, closed one, with two of the remaining three not preforming to our expectations. WOW that spells a 75 percent failure rate in my book. Now use your experiments at Wilson, Grant, Lincoln or Cleveland! It’s time to close the boundries give us what others have had and let us get it DONE!!! Don’t use our Community to save others. Marshall is our Community school and a part of the Lents Neighborhood.
I don’t know a lot about the Marshall community, as I live on the other side of town in St Johns. But I think Roosevelt and Marshall have a lot in common-the whole small school thing and similarities in our SES and student populations. My sense is that, if Marshall were a comprehensive and the transfer policy were changed, many of your kids would attend. I think the shared border with David Douglas is, at least in part, driving this. That and the inability to see beyond the racial issues that plague repurposing Jeff. If Roosevelt shared a border with someone, I think we would have been on the chopping block too.
And I love the photo.
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