Will voters ever have a voice in Norfolk schools?

Only 15 of Norfolk’s 45 Public schools are fully accredited.

When an investigation reported that a Norfolk principal, Cassandra Goodwyn, coerced teachers into fabricating students’ work to help earn accreditation, and lied to get a teacher fired who refused to cheat, a City Council member said “I have all of the faith in the world in Cassandra Goodwyn.”

If you want to have fun, read about this Norfolk student who was named “prom king” after being charged with two counts of malicious wounding, six counts of attempted malicious wounding, six counts of felonious use of a firearm, gang participation, child endangerment and conspiracy to commit malicious wounding.

His lawyer? Norfolk City Councilman Andy Protogyrou.

Let’s face it. Norfolk Schools need serious reform and help. And their cozy Council isn’t helping.

Norfolk is the only city in Hampton Roads where voters have no voice in their School Board. No School Board elections ever.

City Council hand-picks the school board. How do you like the results?

A group called Norfolk Citizens for an Elected School Board is circulating petitions to give Norfolk citizens and parents what every other Hampton Roads city’s citizens and parents have – a vote for their School Board members.

That takes thousands of votes to petition for a referendum, and according to the group, they are over 85% of the way there with two weeks to go. (Hint Virginian-Pilot, they call this “News”)

The group’s website is www.electedschoolboard.com and it was fairly easy to get that URL. Just about every city already has an elected school board, so a website named “electedschoolboard” isn’t exactly in demand anywhere else but Norfolk.

Norfolk usually needs a little shove when it comes to Democracy. Took forever before they decided that letting voters choose the Mayor wouldn’t be a calamity.

With the Norfolk schools in the mess they’re in right now, City Council would do well to let the people choose their representatives and hold them accountable for results.

Democracy in Norfolk….novel idea, eh?

Сейчас уже никто не берёт классический кредит, приходя в отделение банка. Это уже в далёком прошлом. Одним из главных достижений прогресса является возможность получать кредиты онлайн, что очень удобно и практично, а также выгодно кредиторам, так как теперь они могут ссудить деньги даже тем, у кого рядом нет филиала их организации, но есть интернет. http://credit-n.ru/zaymyi.html - это один из сайтов, где заёмщики могут заполнить заявку на получение кредита или микрозайма онлайн. Посетите его и оцените удобство взаимодействия с банками и мфо через сеть.