Who is this Jim Dowd person? Inquiring minds want to know.
Jim and his lovely wife Bo were originally part of the charter school group. They left specifically because of the funding impact on the rest of the school system.
Jim Dowd began his adult working life as an experiential educator with Outward Bound and Project Adventure. Somehow, he still doesn't really know how, he left that career to become a technology strategist. He has worked with numerous fortune 500 companies, a good collection of startups, the Tech Boston Academy and today is the co-founder of HelpGuest.com an online marketplace for skills that launched in October 08. He has one child thriving in the Gloucester Public Schools and one who will begin kindergarten in September 2010.
TOP 5 THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO TO MAKE NOISE ABOUT THE GCA CHARTER PROPOSAL
1. Write a letter expressing your objections to the Board of Education.
Letters should be sent to:
Mitchell D. Chester
Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
350 Main Street
Malden, MA 02148
Or
charterschools@doe.mass.edu
by JANUARY 5TH, 2009
2. Write a letter to Governor Patrick asking for a moratorium on new charter schools until the financial crisis is resolved. Follow the link for e-mail and snail mail addresses.
Contact Governor Patrick
3. Talk to a friend who you know supports the GCA Charter School proposal. Give them the address to this website.
www.offthecharter.blogspot.com
Urge them to use the resources available to get informed. Ask charter school applicants to prove, demonstrating thorough budget analysis and understanding, how this charter school can be funded without disastrously affecting the rest of our school district. Ask hard questions. Wait for answers. Find out the truth about the school budget and the charter school funding.
4. Write a letter to the Gloucester Daily Times expressing your objection.
Click here to write a letter to the editor of the GDT
Scroll down the "contact us" page until you reach the section called "Submit Your News." Contact editor Ray Lamont at the GDT if your letter is not printed a few days after you submit it.
5. Organize the other people you know who care about education for all of Gloucester's kids, send them to this blog, get them to follow the above steps.
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Jane, I am cringing at the thought of what this charter could do to harm the wonderful town and schools I love. I wish I had a say, but rest assured you all have my support.
ReplyDeleteJane- just wrote the governor.
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