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Zorro

(16,296 posts)
Wed Mar 29, 2023, 12:30 PM Mar 2023

Sarasota School Board poised to hire ex-Hillsdale College curriculum specialist as consultant

The Sarasota County School District appears poised to hire for a wide-ranging review a consulting firm whose founder was a leader at Hillsdale College, a private Michigan-based Christian liberal arts college that has become a conservative touchstone for educational issues.

The district has posted for consideration next week two draft contracts with Vermilion Education, one for consulting services to the board and another for a "District Improvement Study" that would include a review of the district's textbooks, library books, lesson plans, assignments, professional development, collective bargaining agreements, strategic plan, discipline policies, transparency and parental access policies, among other aspects.

Under the consulting contract, Vermilion would examine proposed policies, programs, curriculum, and sit in on external candidate interviews for district administrative, support and classroom positions.

Vermilion was founded by Jordan Adams, who worked as a civic education specialist at Hillsdale College and is named in the contract. Adams was previously consulted by the Florida Department of Education to review textbooks and worked with Hillsdale College to expand its charter school network with the controversial Hillsdale 1776 Curriculum.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/education/2023/03/29/sarasota-school-board-may-hire-ex-hillsdale-college-leader-to-consult/70057810007/

The Sarasota School Board members -- all but one a MAGAt --seem determined to pervert good public education in their district. It should be noted that board chairperson Bridget Ziegler doesn't even have her kids in public schools.

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Sarasota School Board poised to hire ex-Hillsdale College curriculum specialist as consultant (Original Post) Zorro Mar 2023 OP
Oh Jesus. underpants Mar 2023 #1
Thought Sarasota was relatively wealthy? Freethinker65 Mar 2023 #2

Freethinker65

(11,139 posts)
2. Thought Sarasota was relatively wealthy?
Wed Mar 29, 2023, 01:35 PM
Mar 2023

I guess they are all retired, or at least well past menopause? No doubt those on second, third, or forth wives and families send their kids to elite private schools. Gotta destroy any public education left to keep an ample supply of early bird special food service employees, home healthcare workers, groundskeepers, day laborers, and other low wage/no benefit domestic helpers.

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