Ed Chadd has sent this out and I thought I would share it with our readers. Please help save this great program that is educating kids in our natural resources.
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Dear supporters of the NOPSC Natural Resources program,
It appears that there will be one final and very reasonable chance to save the Skills Center Natural Resources program at the upcoming NOPSC Administrative Council meeting:
Tuesday, April 28 at 9 am at the Skills Center (905 W. 9th St., Port Angeles)
You can do any or all of the following:
1. Attend the meeting and invite as many other people as you can.
- Be prepared to speak if the opportunity presents itself.
3. Write statements in support of the NR Program and email them to Tara Morrow (tmorrow1008@gmail.com– cc’d here). Please include your name and physical address.
4. Send those same statements directly to the NOPSC Administrative Council and PASD School Board (email addresses below).If you have any questions or time to contribute in ways beyond the items listed above, please respond.
Some interesting recent developments include these:
* The State AG’s office has informed PASD and NOSPC that the Administrative Council meetings should but have not been following the Open Public Meetings Act. One penalty is that all actions taken at out-of-compliance meetings are null and void.
* This upcoming week, PASD’s Business and Finance Director plans to produce the official Natural Resources program financial report and have it available at the 4/23 PASD School Board meeting in case any School Board members ask to see it (she has never been asked to create a financial report for the NR program).
* A very reasonable solution that could be pursued, if decision makers are willing, is to run the NR program as “CTE Instructional Worksite Learning” instead of “Alternative Learning Experience (ALE).” The current program structure fits both of these sets of state rules, but in 2010, NOPSC decided to run the NR Options and NR 2 classes through the ALE rules. Changing to CTE would address a concern about ALE, namely that CTE is funded at a higher rate than ALE, and it would allow all parties to compromise while still offering this valuable program.
Thanks, Ed Chadd
Filed under: Puget Sound | Tagged: education, North Olympic Peninsula, Port Angeles, Puget Sound, Skills Center, Teens |
