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LPS "Stonewall" Examples
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"Stonewall" (keep quiet about "bad news"
for a while or forever) examples are identified briefly along with
hyperlink references to ICAN website pages and documents for additional
information.
Unanswered questions and requests:
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Request from superintendent:
- Superintendent Stan Scheer requested on
February 26, 2004 that Sam Drury ask questions before drawing conclusions
and give Stan opportunity to respond to Sam's conclusions before Sam presents
them at Board of Education meetings.
- Sam was invited to a meeting with Stan Scheer and Bonnie Miller
(Assistant Superintendent, Learning Services) on March 8 and to subsequent
meetings with Stan or Bonnie.
- Sam on March 8 and 9 submitted 25 questions to Bonnie and Stan with regard to four subjects:
- LPS District Improvement Plan (one
question).
- LPS Early Literacy Intervention Program (12).
- LPS Director of Curriculum and Assessment position (8).
- LPS below-grade-level students (4).
- Sam gave to each Board member a copy of those
25 questions at the March 11, 2004 BoE
meeting.
- He also repeatedly told the Board that he had not received any answers to most of those
questions [until Sam received on March 9, 2005 an e-mail responding to the
Early Literacy Intervention Program questions].
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Other questions and requests during Board meetings:
- January 14, 2004 request that the Board
reallocate and consolidate the available resources for those students who are
functioning below grade level and are being left behind.
- January 22, 2004 request
for public statements from school officials regarding the problem of
below-grade-level students.
- January 22, 2004 request
for a future Board discussion of a potential problem analysis regarding
enrollment of out-of-district students.
- February 12, 2004 request for creation of
Individual Learning Plans for core-subjects proficiency for below-grade-level
students who do not have them
- February 26, 2004 questions about the
appointment of the Director, Curriculum and Assessment, when there is no
position description.
- March 18,
2004 proposal for the Whitman home schooling program with
Connections Academy.
- March 18,
2004 request that LPS
performance pay for administrators be considered for an addition to the future
agenda.
- April 8, 2004 request as to when Board
Policy IKE, Promotion and Retention of Students, might appear on an agenda.
- April 14, 2004 questions at BoE Community Forum on budget issues.
- May 13,
2004 questions about the Littleton High
School (LHS) staff presentation of the LHS Interactive Mathematics Program
(IMP) plan to
the LPS Board.
- May 27, 2004 request that the LHS IMP soon become a future agenda
item.
- June 10, 2004 suggestion that LPS
officials consider the Littleton Academy performance pay practices.
- June 24, 2004 questions about the Instructional Coach agenda item.
- Et cetera examples for subsequent meetings and periodic reminders to the
Board regarding unanswered questions and requests.
Public records:
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Administrative Work Plan (AWP):
- The two members of the public (Pam Cirbo and Sam Drury) who were observers
during the December 3, 2004 Board workshop
in Colorado Springs were not allowed to see a copy of
the AWP which was discussed by the Board in that open meeting.
- Colorado Public Records Law (§24-72-202,
C.R.S.) on "Work Product" per subsection
(6.5)(c): "... does not include ... (IV) Any materials that would
otherwise constitute work product if such materials are produced and
distributed to the members of a public body for their use or consideration in
a public meeting...."
- Sam finally received the 03/22/05 version of the AWP in response to his
December 15 written Public Records Request [PDF 24KB].
- This LPS "stonewall" example clearly violated the
Colorado Public Records Law.
Last modified:
07/06/2005
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