The Cobb County School District said Tuesday a special review by its accrediting agency is scheduled for August.
In a release, the district said the review by Alpharetta-based Cognia will take place Aug. 15-18, and will focus on three specific standards set by the accreditor:
- Governing authority
- Equitable opportunities
- Student peformance
The fourth area of examination during the review, the district said, “will also involve interviews between Cognia and individual board members, the Superintendent, District staff, principals, teachers, and community members.”
Cognia announced the special review in April after three Democratic Cobb school board members and several dozen citizens approached it, complaining the board’s Republican majority and Superintendent Chris Ragsdale were ignoring their concerns on several academic and governance issues.
The three Democratic board members said their request to Ragsdale to discuss early literacy, educator and employee support, and board governance training never got a reply.
“The continued silencing of board members who would like to not only talk about positives, but also publicly address challenges, continues. The three of us remain concerned that our governing body is not adhering to the leadership standards set forth by Cognia,” read a Jan. 21 letter to Cognia by the three Democratic members.
Those members include Charisse Davis, who represents the Walton and Wheeler clusters in East Cobb.
The district’s initial response claimed that a special review “can negatively impact college acceptance rates, college scholarships, enrollment, funding, and educator recruitment and retention,” and cited similar situations in recent years in the DeKalb and Clayton school systems.
In its release Tuesday, the Cobb school district acknowledged that more than 50 citizens have complained to Cognia.
The district said it has spent more than 600 hours preparing for the review and “believes that transparency in this process is important and will update our community again as new information becomes available in August.”
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The left loves democracy, until they don’t have the majority, and then they use any trick to intimidate the position of others. (Hey, Charisse – this is democracy in action. Sorry you didn’t get your way). And they very well could cause the pulling down of a great school system.
With the move to CRT (thankfully our board banned it – for now, that is) and the other items such as 1619 Project, our schools are under attack from people who do not care about the quality of education (remember the “readin’, ritin’ and ‘rithmatic that are the basics for a successful life?) but on the indoctrination of our kids and setting them up for failure in life.
And to those who may disagree with me, keep in mind that Cobb County Schools have been recognized nationwide for years, and produces a very high percentage of college-qualified graduates. That is now under attack. Because their agenda is more important than a quality education.
To my friends on the left – yes, we need to have open dialog on many things. But please understand what your voting patterns give us. Revolutionaries on a mission, and not people who are competent to even understand what educating kids is all about.