Earlier this week, State Representative Talibdin El-Amin and his wife, Committeewoman (and former state representative) Yaphett El-Amin hosted a town hall meeting at Wohl Community Center in north St. Louis. Here are a couple of videos from that event.
St. Louis Public Schools CEO Rick Sullivan…
State Representative El-Amin…
Videos shot by intern Gabe Bullard
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August 3rd, 2007 at 4:23 pm
The audio on Sullivan’s remarks and answers to questions was really weak, but he had some interesting things to say.
When pressed on the issue of what his background was, he said that you do not have to be a brain surgeon to assist in brain surgery.
I understand his point about leaving the education part to the educators, but sooner or later he will have to deal with issues where the educators disagree, and he will have to point to the educator which makes the most sense to him.
A case in point would be the letter from Bourisaw to Kent King regarding Charter Schools—she urged the state board not to build a Charter School with the MOcan (or TexasCan) outfit, and she talked about the steps already being taken to deal with problem children who negatively affect the education of others.
So when he says leave education to the educators——how good is the superintendent he inherited? How good is the state official who insisted it was important that Matt Blunt be given the authority to appoint him?
By the way—are any stats available for the attendance of slps students for the school year 2006-2007?
The first day last August was front page news—the figures for 174 days—don’t really matter?
kjoe
August 5th, 2007 at 8:22 am
The Missouri Department of Elem and Sec. Education website has a lot of information and statistics including attendance. Here’s the address: http://dese.mo.gov/planning/profile/115115.html
August 5th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
The Missouri Department of Elem and Sec. Education website has a lot of information
well, yes. But the first thing that smacks you in the face is this:
Updated February 24, 2007
It lists things by years—2006 means: 1. Jan-December of 2006? 2. September 2005-August 2006? 3. August 2006-Feb 2007?
Here is the one thing that jumped out at me:
SLPS attendance rates
2003: 88.9
2004: 89.7
2005: 81.5
The one thing which seems abundantly clear—-the members of the elected board majority simply were not there when all the crap they used to justify the takeover took place. Neither was Bourisaw.
kj
August 7th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
I wonder if El Amin’s wifes new kush job is working out?
$92k a year to carry Smith’s bookbag must be nice……
August 8th, 2007 at 8:31 am
Agree, Sullivan comments were weak.
Has anyone found out why he is here? Roberti went out and found educators in the district.