Questions for CSD’s Board Today
Questions of Decatur’s School Board today.
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I’m Down With O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 and 71
City Schools of Decatur spent $661,504 on employee charge cards last year — 65% more per student than Buford, 86% more than Marietta. What did they buy? IDK. They filed $126,272 of it as "Other." When I asked for receipts, they said they'd cost me $918.
Keep Decatur Jazz-Free
Adolescence is physically and emotionally complex enough already. Is it fair to make it harmonically complex as well?
Suspend City Schools of Decatur Superintendent Gyimah Whitaker Now
“Superintendent shall promptly notify the Board of issues which could result in potential financial or reputational exposure to the district.” Section 2, Line 12 of Superintendent Gyimah Whitaker’s contract with City Schools of Decatur. Last month CSD’s board opened an…
Area Wife Guy keeps undermining his wife
Decatur's school superintendent says her husband's podcast has nothing to do her work. Her husband disagrees.
Decatur’s School Board will do anything except what city residents want
What do I know about the New Markets Tax Credit program that I didn’t learn in the past hour? Zero. What did I learn in the past hour? I learned NMTC was created to help economically distressed communities attract private…
Yes to education. No to a new building.
Is it too much to ask of Decatur's school board that it exercises the same level of fiscal and political due diligence as a diner considering the fish entrée? I'm worried the answer is yes.
Free parking isn’t cheap
It is practical for Decatur to help people who live near busy commercial districts by banning non-resident parking on certain residential streets. I just want the city to price exclusive parking rights fairly. The city is proposing charging residents on…
Decatur’s School Board Needs to Stop It
I support CSD’s commitment to providing quality early childhood education to everyone in Decatur, regardless of their family’s ability to pay preschool tuition. As Superintendent Whitaker noted at March 25’s school board community meeting in Oakhurst, the best way to…
Open letter to City Schools of Decatur’s board and administrators
I’m for early childhood education. I’m also for my local government not sneering at my questions.