Tonight (11/1/12) the Portland Council PTA is holding a ?Conversations with Superintendent Carole Smith? at 6:30 pm (6:00 pm for light snacks) in the Grant High School Library (here). I can?t go because of other commitments, but I do have three categories of questions I hope will be asked of our superintendent.
First, relating to today?s news that PPS was unable to
submit an application for federal funding to develop personalized education plans (here),
what would PPS have proposed if the Portland Association of Teachers had not
objected? What is your future vision of personalized education in PPS? And what
is your vision of the development of online education in PPS?
Second, relating to immersion programs and enrollment balancing in the Jefferson cluster, there are excess classroom capacities and now empty schools in the Jefferson cluster that could be used to expand Mandarin, Japanese and Spanish immersion programs (all of which have had sufficient parental demand for expansion), what keeps PPS from opening such immersion programs in the Jefferson cluster? Is it because PPS thinks low-income and/or African-American students do not need opportunities to learn Mandarin, or Japanese or Spanish?
Third, it need cost no more than PPS currently spends per pupil per year to send a high school student to study abroad for a school year through existing study abroad organizations. PPS could invest in Portland?s global economic future and provide equity in study abroad opportunities for low-income students. What keeps PPS from having such a high school study abroad program?
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