Posted on 10/04/2024 5:51:18 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
On October 1, 2024, Leandra Blades, president of the Placentia-Yorba Linda (Calif.) Board of Education appeared at a candidate forum at Travis Ranch School in Yorba Linda and recounted what she and her colleagues achieved over the past four years.
A former police officer who was reluctant to seek elective office, Blades recalled how she was persuaded to run for a seat on the Board of Education by concerned parents who wanted “a voice in their children’s education.” So she threw her hat into the ring and was eventually elected to the Board in 2020.
At the time, the schools in the Placentia-Yorba Linda School District had been in decline, with enrollment and test scores falling. Upon taking office, Blades and her colleagues on the board set out to turn things around. They began by choosing a new superintendent. Blades tells the inside story of the hunt for a competent, innovative and activist leader who would work enthusiastically to turn the district around and the process by which he was selected. The new superintendent, Alex Cherniss, along with the board, then proceeded to enact a series of reforms, which Blades recounts, that resulted in growing enrollment, rising test scores, increased pay for teachers, incentives to incentivize teachers to transfer from other districts.
Leandra Blades is running for re-election in the November 5, 2024 election.
Earlier this year, a coalition of unions and left-wing activist groups successfully recalled three conservative members of the nearby Orange Unified School District and flipped it Left. Conservative activist groups such as the California Republican Assembly and We the People Orange County are working hard to prevent them from doing the same in PYL.
Hey, the schools were improving. The union can’t stand for that. What if word got out....
I can see the campaign add now: knives that say”Cut out the waste and cut to the chaise!”
Raising Robust Readers. For ALL. Needs to be implemented nationally.
https://raisingrobustreaders.com/
I wish I had learned to read from something like that. Like most of my colleagues, I was taught to read using the “look-say” method, with Dick & Jane readers. Fortunately, I started to read comic books—against my parents’ wishes—which were far superior in generating reading skills than those worthless primers.
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