Vision Shared: Voicing Input about Education

Several communities across West Virginia have given their input regarding the future direction of education in West Virginia.

The 4th of 8 community forums being held across the state was conducted at the Cultural Center in Charleston on Thursday.

The room was filled with teachers, higher education officials, and community and business leaders all focused on one goal, improving education in the state.

Vision Shared President Rebecca Randolph says so far they are pleased to see the diversity of people coming together in one place to talk about positive change in education in the future.

These forums give communities across the state an opportunity to talk about the findings from the recent Education Efficiency Audit of West Virginia’s Primary and Secondary Education System.

The nonprofit organization Vision Shared, the group conducting these forums, says they want to see student achievement increase in the state as a result of these meetings.

“We produce a report annually that looks at student achievement and West Virginia consistently ranks low,“ says Randolph. “So our goal is to see that improve.“

The discussion at the forums mainly focuses on the service delivery improvement section of the audit. When all the forums are complete, the information collected will then be used to formulate plans for the future.

Randolph says Vision Shared will compile a report of all the information collected and use the report to identify starting points for creating long term and shortterm changes in the education system.

The next forum is scheduled for July 10, 2012 in Wheeling at 6:30 PM.

If you would like more information about the forums or to register for a forum, visit www.visionshared.com/edu2012/ or call 304.654.0875.

Hopefully someone will accurately document the chronology of all events associated with activities of the CEFP Committee. The information needs to include the list of all players and their roles throughout the process to expose how everything worked to result in recommendations to purchase Lewis County land and Arbuckle site land for new schools. This information should be provided to Vision Shared as a case study for the wrong way to do the people’s business so something similar to this won’t happen in the future. Another advantage of the chronology would be to publish it in Gilmer County to accurately expose the facts.

To Lindy Blackwell and everyone.
You could be part of that documenting of the CEFP Committee issue.  Call Norma Hurley or William Simmons.  They are in the phone book.

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