School Chief Addresses Student Safety

Paul Vallas, the interim schools chief, offers some suggestions for student safety, in response to recent city violence. From Linda Conner Lambeck, CT Post:

In the wake of three recent homicides, including the shooting of eighth-grader Justin Thompson, the city’s interim schools superintendent is preparing a new district policy on student safety.

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  1. Paul Vallas said Friday he is preparing a district policy that would require his office to be notified any time a student is seriously injured or involved in a serious incident on or off school grounds. He called them “flash reports,” something he and Shively Willingham, the district’s new director of school climate who worked with him in Philadelphia, have used successfully elsewhere.

    DIRECTOR OF SCHOOL CLIMATE??? A FRIEND FROM HIS DAZE IN PHILLY??? (a.k.a. Kill-a-delphia)

    Has this guy produced a balanced budget yet?

    Get me on the Board of Ed!!! We would put an end to this nonsense.

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  2. “Vallas said he would like to create security zones around schools and safe corridors students can use to get to school safely. He’d like to get grants and use capital funding to get cameras installed along those routes.”

    Give me a break!!! How about some grants to retain the teachers you are about to lay off??? This is more (to quote tc) Bullshit!

    After you have straightened ALL of the issues inside of the schools then you can start wandering off campus. Maybe he has a friend in the security camera business from his daze in Philly who will do the work on an emergency no-bid basis!

    Oh that’s right he is only going to be here for a year.
    This is a sneak preview of what a Bill Finch-appointed Board Of Education will be doing.
    Let me at them. Come on Supremes, rule in my favor. Bring back an elected BOE!!!

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  3. This guy is just some resume-builder.com looking to create new and exciting breakthroughs in his experimental lab known as the Bridgeport School system.
    If they work he’ll take credit for them. If they don’t he will explain how those left behind did not implement and monitor things properly.

    And tell me this is not exactly what Finch would do with the school budget.

    Security cameras on city streets? The city doesn’t have the money unless we raise the taxes so let’s go ahead and raid the school budget.

    Vote NO to a Finch-appointed Board of Ed!

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  4. More good news from the CT Post:

    HARTFORD — Federal transportation funding will likely comprise a declining share of the cost of highway and transit improvements for the foreseeable future, Connecticut DOT Commissioner Jim Redeker told transportation advocates Friday.

    “If federal funding goes down, all we will be able to do is less.”

    “We can’t look to the federal government as an adequate basis for our transportation investment resources,” said Frankel, who now serves as a visiting scholar on transportation policy for the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington.

    So now does someone want to explain the BIG raise Ruben got in light of this forecast? NO Seaview Ave corridor. NO rebuilding the railroad tracks. NO new East Side Railroad Job, er I mean, Station. NO road to Remington Woods.

    Unless Finch can fund it all with school construction bonds once he takes control of the Board of Ed!!!

    Vallas will help. This is right up his alley.

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  5. Under Ramos, schools held monthly school climate committees meetings with a volunteer staff panel. Unfortunately, not all principals listened to the recommendations or attempted to implement them.

    Let’s see if Shively Willingham requests teams be formed again, and if a) she asks for their recommendations, and b) she tries to implement them, or c) is open with the union about what they are and her results.

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  6. *** For good input, try sitting down with a citywide student committee, school security, school staff, parents & teachers and the local BPD/BFD. first. Then address the new School Chief’s student safety ideas, no? *** Teamwork ***

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  7. No, it would be a flow chart:

    High School level student committees report to state mandated volunteer school governance councils, made up of a few teachers and parents who show up at 5:00,

    www .sde.ct.gov/sde/cwp/view.asp?a=2678&Q=322630

    Who then report to …?

    As far as I know, there is no BPD/BFD, school security in this flow chart. Unless it comes from the school principal there is no flow from those lower in the food chain. Bridgeport is totally school based.

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  8. And you can bet your sweet bippy teachers are not informed as to what is discussed at these Student Governance meetings, nor do teachers (nor parents, I assume) know to whom these meeting minutes were sent to, and their responses.

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    1. Sue, you’re right. I am on my High School’s SGC (School Governance Council) and nothing ever reaches down to anyone outside of the meeting. The principal decides what is given down the food chain as you call it but that has been last year’s problem. This year our first SGC meeting was Tuesday. No student, there are only two of us, was notified about the meeting so what is in planning right now … I do not know. Plus this curfew needs to be anyone under the age of 18 since they engage most in illegal activity.

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