Gist: Trustees should take control of deaf school

[Miss-Delectable]

Gist: Trustees should take control of deaf school - ABC6 - Providence, RI and New Bedford, MA News, Weather

State education commissioner Deborah Gist (GHIST) says she will recommend returning full authority for the Rhode Island School for the Deaf to its Board of Trustees.

Last year, Gist asked the state Board of Regents to put the school under the direct supervision of the state Department of Education, in part because of instability in the board's membership and a lack of managerial experience.

She also expressed concerns about the academic needs of the Providence's school's 80 students, most of home failed to score "proficient" on state standardized tests.

The Providence Journal reports that Gist on Thursday told the Regents that trustees have been doing productive work together.

The regents will take up the measure at their July 1 meeting.

 

[shel90]

did they ever consider that these students' may have language delays or deficients and that they may come from families where communication is nonextistent?

My school has improved recently with students passing all these standardizing testing despite all the barriers and obstacles in the way. It was hell and I wish people would stop demoralizing deaf schools if they have never experienced working there because they have no IDEA at all! Reading books does not make one an expert. If you tell me what should be done or this and that by reading books or research, I will laugh in your face.

If this is due to poor management of the school, then I am in full support of it.