{"id":7156,"date":"2017-02-22T16:33:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T21:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/?p=7156"},"modified":"2017-02-22T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T21:34:08","slug":"after-years-of-battle-hartford-board-of-education-still-has-work-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/2017\/02\/after-years-of-battle-hartford-board-of-education-still-has-work-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"After Years of Battle, Hartford Board of Education Still Has Work to Do"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hartford Board of Education<\/a> February regular meeting took place \u00a0at 5:30pm on Tuesday, Feb.21, 2017 at Journalism and Media Magnet Academy in Hartford. In dialogue session, several issues concerning education policies in Hartford public schools were brought out by representatives from community and local organizations. It was not the first time to hear complaints for certain issues from the public. <\/span><\/p>\n

The first group presented their concern about closure of elementary schools in North End. They stated that the closure of schools would lead to safety concern of crowded classrooms, high student-teacher ratio, as well as low teaching quality. Doctor Foster, representative from State Chapter of NAACP<\/a> and the Institute for Cross-Cultural Theological Education, continued saying that the closing of schools also imply the upcoming economic challenge to the community and disturbing message to children and parents. Even with the budget deficit, he stated that \u201cthe quality and equity should be the keys in education decisions making. \u201d Schools that students and parents can relate to would make a difference in students\u2019 growth. <\/span><\/p>\n

The dialogue session also touched on how effectively using budget can make an impact of students\u2019 life. One group suggested spending more money on repairing schools and improving after school programs. Another representatives from the community said, \u201cWe don\u2019t want a billion of managers. We want a computer person to make sure when computer breaks, there\u2019s person that can take care of it…We want people who can make impacts on our children\u2019s life. \u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

As new board members were assigned at the beginning of the meeting, an African-American representative, in terms of the undemocratic constitute of Hartford Board of Education, stated that \u201cpublic Board of Education needs to be voted instead of appointed. Public voice needs to be heard.\u201d He also voiced out his dissatisfaction of lack of colored teachers in Hartford public schools, a major issue that hadn\u2019t been solved for years, \u201cThe face of teachers in classroom should reflect of who they teach.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

School safety was another concern that has been brought up for a couple of times. Community hoped for not only a cleaner and safer school environment but also a more justice learning condition for students to grow up. The board was expected to work on policies on child abuse, as one mid-aged lady said, \u201cas mother and grandmother of Hartford students, I\u2019ve heard complains of physical assault from other students and adults.\u201d Voices of Women in Color<\/a> also articulated that \u201cschool should be a place where children are nurtured, not negated, where they are educated, not emasculated.\u201d Bully Referral Form itself does not meet the goal of alleviating the pain children would endure. Bully policies should be written more strictly to execute the punishment on child abuse reports.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hartford Board of Education February regular meeting took place \u00a0at 5:30pm on Tuesday, Feb.21, 2017 at Journalism and Media Magnet Academy in Hartford. In dialogue session, several issues concerning education policies in Hartford public schools were brought out by representatives from community and local organizations. It was not the first time to hear complaints for … Continue reading After Years of Battle, Hartford Board of Education Still Has Work to Do<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[110],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7159,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7156\/revisions\/7159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/edreform\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}