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The Court Wants to Hear from the Clerk.......Within 20 Days
Attorneys for the Escambia Board of County Commissioners filed an amended cofmplaint with Circuit Court Judge William Stone on Monday of last week and yesterday afternoon the Judge responded.
This all stems from the
Clerk's unilateral termination of a bona fide contract between the BCC and ICMA regarding a 401(a) retirement plan.
Apparently, with this order, Judge Stone wants to now hear from the Clerk, and her side of this matter.
And it looks like he wants an answer relatively quickly as to why he should not grant the request for mandamus that the BCC's attorneys have petitioned the court to order.
20 days and then hopefully we can get this nastiness behind us.
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Meanwhile this is happening and BOCC does nothing. This is a failure of leadership in our community. It’s a economic development issue
https://ricksblog.biz/escambia-kindergarten-readiness-drops/
And Doug's lawyer wants to hear from him within 24 hours.
Or maybe he doesn't.
At this rate, he will have run himself straight through and out of the attorney mill by the time he has to defend himself on his fraudulent contracting activity.
Oh well.
Yawn
Anonymous 2:38--This issue is a family issue, NOT an economic development issue. Period. And while it is helpful to have children prepared to enter pre-school---it is definitely not the be all end all. In fact, there are many studies that have been conducted that clearly illustrate that by the end of third grade, achievement scores and other metrics illustrate there is no significant statistical difference between those students who were "prepared" for pre K and those who were "not prepared." Those who want to force-ram the issue to the front will disregard these studies and throw out anecdotal evidence that preparedness for pre-K is the holy grail. But what we ought to be focusing on is 1.) how do we keep families together and lower out of wedlock birthrates/single parent households 2.) how to increase the reading comprehension abilities of 3rd graders so that at this age these students begin to transition from learning to read over to reading to learn. But "readiness" starts with families that care and look after their own children in the home prior to school period. Everything else falls short, and the government's programs will never be able to print enough money to replace an intact, non-dysfunctional family unit.
Another delusional response. Jobs and income solve a lot of woes. Claiming no responsibility for my elected leaders is so typical of Escambia County. It’s always somebody else’s fault
No Elected Official deserves a 51% yearly retirement payout! End the program which would be doing the right thing.
More data on relationship between economics and kindergarten readiness. BOCC asleep at the switch
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6122065/
Anon 2:01: You are glib. Throw out one study....yawn. I've researched this topic in depth and looked at dozens of studies. The science is settled (I love using that liberal term back on a liberal, LOL) These programs are not educational, they are social welfare, government funded childcare, and jobs programs for those that administer such programs. Period. By third grade, an independent, unbiased assessment of the educational attainment of students within similar cohorts cannot distinguish between those students who had high quality pre-K interventions and those that did not. What does that mean vis a vis the $Billions spent on these children by federal, state and local governments on "high quality pre-K" programs (when such education pre formal primary education is the responsibility of FAMILIES)----well, I'll let you work that out. Believe it or not if you want, but it is a big money space and folks have found it to be quite remunerative and the bleeding hearts don't want to know (and don't care, actually) that the expenditures do not move the ball forward with respect to educational attainment by the end of third grade level. Read this, my master's capstone thesis on this topic specifically--and understand you are speaking with someone who knows this topic, and then come back and lets discuss. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kRvwk5yla4FF50LqVASvjSVs0qNXHCNj/view?usp=sharing Or don't read it. Meanwhile, just know this: There are better ways to spend billions of dollars for childhood education--and it is INTENSIVE focus on reading proficiency at the first and second grade level so that at age 7 students can begin to read to learn and transition away from simply learning to read. That is how we as a nation can better utilize our limited educational resources, targeted intelligently and not emotionally--and not calling social welfare, feel good nanny state daycare and jobs programs that do not work "Education" Remember, the government will never be able to spend enough to fix broken, dysfunctional families and to replace the FAMILY's responsibilities related to early childhood education, shapes, colors, reading, and TIME. Meanwhile, as an act of rank political correctness, these programs proliferate even as objective measurements of their outputs show zero educational benefit if measured objectively post grade three. I eagerly await your retort.
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