The school board voted for a resolution to meet the standards? You mean they voted on a resolution to comply with the law they were already subject to. What's next, a resolution to not rob a bank? Smoke and mirrors for Peg when she comes begging for more taxpayer dollars "we had to hire". Look on their website (you know the one outsourced to North Carolina, at our expense), and the threats to cut programs to our children are still there, yet not one word about streamlining and cutting administration, cutting the $90k a month contracts to an outside vendor, cutting half the private attorneys on reatainer, cutting Peg's precious TOA program (excluding those funded by federal dollars, it amounts to pairs of teachers driving around teaching other teachers, and "pets" acting as A.P.'s), the waste inflicted on the County by Tysinger's Hub based program, and removing site based custodians, creating custodial supervisor positions (the jury is still out, but my bet is it's going to cost us money).

Seeing as how this is the third time we have been out of compliance, and we've gone from an A district to a C district, isn't there a way to dock the pay of those responsible? We pay these people bigs bucks to safeguard the public monies, and these failures have to be someone's responsibility. Time to own this one Dr. Smith, all of your highly paid Deputies, and by extension, our elected (and spineless) School Board, who for some reason ignore the taxpayers wishes that we meet class size rules, proviide a quality education for our children, and oversee the Superintendent, not the Superintendent overseeing them. Put the rubber stamps away folks, and started fulfilling your elected responsibilties. Head on over to : OURvolusiaschools.net for more of the waste, and as far as I know the school board has yet to answer his question about the 14 million (1) dollars in written off equipment, somebody should be fired if they cannot account for every penny! I will vote for a tax increase when Dr. Smith promises a true 30% cut across the board for Administrative positions, and salaries, remember, as they say, "Everything we do is for the children".

P.S. Still no comment from the schools on how safety and security has been severely compromised on orders of the Maintenance department, guess it's not that important to them.