OPSB - What is it with these people?
OK, I'm having a bit of trouble seeing OPSB President Sanders' logic here:
Board at war over school plans
A bitter split on the Orleans Parish School Board widened into a chasm Tuesday, as warring factions battled over how to reopen the first schools on the West Bank and who will do it.
Despite the board's Oct. 7 approval of a plan to charter 13 West Bank schools and open several of them to students from across the city in November, School Board President Torin Sanders said a recent court order -- stemming from allegations that the board violated the state's open-meetings law -- voids that decision.
OK, so they think the board decision on re-opening the West Bank schools as charters violated open-meetings laws. So, while he is bemoaning the lack of public comment, Sanders and the interim superintendent decide to unilaterally re-open schools?
Sanders stood beside interim Superintendent Ora Watson as she announced a plan for the administration to open four schools -- O. Perry Walker High School, Dwight D. Eisenhower Elementary, Martin Behrman Elementary and Alice M. Harte Elementary -- on Nov. 14.
OK, let's forget for a moment that this isn't what the majority of the board wants to do. Let's forget that the outside financial consultants say there's no way the board can re-open these schools for the $14.5 million estimated by Watson. What I love is the abject hypocrisy of these people. When the white folks on the board vote to do something, Sanders is hollering to the heavens about the lack of public input, but he and Watson can do whatever they want?
Fools.
Stumble It!
