Friday, April 23, 2010
Calling All IPS Candidates
If you're running for the IPS School Board, IPS B.S. wants to know what your positions on the issues are? You can post your thoughts here or e-mail them to ipsbs@hotmail.com and it will get posted here. A lot of teachers and voters read this blog. This is your chance to reach out to them.
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0 comments after how many days? Depressing. I don't blame anyone though. Who wants to go down with a ship captained by yet another inept douche with a fake PhD.
ReplyDeleteWho really thinks the state won't step in?
I posted the above comment. This is off topic for this forum but I thought people would enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteI am the top commenter at the moment. I am treated by way of every item of on this list by the management at my school. How about you (this is a link)?
When your depression has abated if you want to know the candidates views it might do you good to make use of that internet tool called Google. But to make it easier:
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http://emjostudios.com/testing/battsforschoolboard/flyer.html
http://schroederfordistrict3.wordpress.com/
http://beyeronboard.com/
http://www.forkner-for-ips.com/
http://annieforschoolboard.com/
If I were a candidate for the board, I wouldn't post here either with all the gossip and bad mouthing that goes on. I wouldn't want anyone to think that I thought this was an appropriate venue to share my views.
ReplyDeleteAmen poster ^ there, a-freakin-men. No school board candidate or sitting board member should be posting anonymously or as themselves on a bash IPS anonymously blog created by a non-IPS employee, rather a sh**-stirrer with an obvious axe to grind.
ReplyDeleteFrankly, I don't know Annie Roof from Adam's cat, but by virtue of her personal courage to post on this blog and to express her ideas and her opinions, I'm impressed with the lady as a potential IPS Board member. Annie sounds like a breath of fresh air.
ReplyDeleteAnnie has been here before and if I remember correctly she was bashed. But she is definitely campaigning for the position. Give her a big E for her efforts.
ReplyDeleteAnnie was here posting away anonymously bashing IPS and the IPS administration until she was called out by another anonymous poster. She acknowledged that she was the person who had made the negative comments, then asked to have the name of her childrens school removed from the blog, IIRC.
ReplyDeleteWho has the backing of organized labor?? With the low employee morale within the district, whoever gets the backing of organized labor will win both seats.
ReplyDeleteWho has the backing of organized labor? With the low employee morale within the district, whoever get their back will win.
ReplyDeleteI have never bashed IPS or the administrators. I have never said anything cruel or spread gossip or attacked anyone personally. These are the first comments I have made since then. From now on I will always use my name. THis is why other candidates haven't or won't post here. THis is the comment I wrote, it is still on here, just my children's school was removed.
ReplyDelete"It will be a mess come Monday. That's the problem, IPS can't handle doing things like this. Remember Conseco? I for one, will take and pick up my children. " There is nothing here that I didn't state publicly in the Indy Star regarding superbowl monday. Maybe my comment was negative, but it is not bashing or personally attacking anyone. I will not get into silly debates on this blog, but I will defend the kind of person I am. There have been some pretty disgusting comments made on here, insulting people for the way they look, talk, or dress. I have never become apart of any of that. And I have thought about not reading anymore. But sometimes there are great discussions, and posts. So I read on, but will probably not post. You can contact me via email at annie@annieforschoolboard.com. By the way, it is unfortunate that things will be made up about candidates, and insults will be thrown out. There are some really great people running, and this blog may miss out on hearing their voice. Thanks for all the supporters I do have on this blog. I have the backing of a lot of people, and feel really good about the kind of campaign I have ran. Good Night.
"campaign I have ran"? Really? Great.
ReplyDeletePersonally, it matters less to me if an IPS Board candidate says, "I have ran" than Michael Brown's having his nose up Eugene White's behind on every issue that crosses the Board's Agenda. I'll gladly trade a few verb tense agreements for honesty and integrity of purpose.
ReplyDeleteAt-large race - I know who will get my vote.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I can't imagine why other candidates didn't post here. (You've got my vote, Annie.)
ReplyDeleteRamon Batts is a Substitute Teacher at Harshman with a Doctorate degree. Do we want another Micheal Brown???????
ReplyDeleteWhat is all the talk about Daniels cutting teacher salaries? MSD Wayne teachers are being told the top salary will go down to $50,000.00. Daniels is saying teachers are more greedy than CEO's.
ReplyDeleteRescind, eradicate, roll back the IPS raises
ReplyDeleteBy AMOS BROWN III
Published: Thursday, February 4, 2010 11:38 AM EST
The Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners voted last week to accept Superintendent Dr. Eugene White’s recommendation granting raises to four highly paid IPS administrators.
The School Board also voted to grant the superintendent a three percent raise.
Both actions by the IPS School Board were wrong.
The Indianapolis Public Schools aren’t Microsoft, Wal-Mart or Warren Buffett’s company. IPS, like nearly every school district in Indiana and many nationwide, and like many non-profits and for-profit entities, is facing severe economic pressures and stresses.
Indiana property tax caps are negatively impacting IPS’ transportation and maintenance budgets. And IPS’ loss of thousands of students in recent years, plus the Great Recession’s impact on state government revenues, has IPS facing between $20-$30 million in funding shortfalls.
IPS dodged scores of teacher layoffs this school year because of the one-time injection of federal stimulus money. This coming school year, IPS won’t be as fortunate.
IPS’ layoffs impact newer, younger teachers – many with the thrill and desire to teach using techniques and methods that engage today’s MTV/BET, Facebook, Wii-oriented, texting-tested students.
White said the four veteran IPS administrators deserved raises, pushing their salaries around $100,000 because they were taking on more responsibility.
Speaking Monday on WTLC-AM1310’s “Afternoons with Amos,” IPS Board President Michael Brown said the four administrators didn’t receive “raises.” Instead they were moving to “a different job responsibility with a different (higher) authorized salary.”
That may be true, but its semantics are not relevant to today’s economic realities.
How many of you reading this took on more responsibility at your job? Did you get a raise for that? If you’re like me and most Americans and Hoosiers, the answer is no.
When times were good, raises like those OK’d by IPS were fine. When times are hard, they’re an insult!
Board President Brown and White say that the other school districts pay their administrators more money. That keeping up with the Jones’ mentality doesn’t fly in these tough economic times.
In his State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama called out the nation’s colleges and universities, urging them to show restraint in their tuition and costs.
Our public schools should show the same restraint. In this era of tight school budgets, school administrations and school boards should show leadership and freeze administrative salaries and if the budget woes are tough, roll some of those salaries back until the fiscal crisis passes.
The media industry, including the media I work for, have had salaries and raises frozen, even rolled back to weather the economic storm. If we in media can do it, so can those in education.
IPS must roll back the raises, immediately!