Minutes
Coalition for Glen Cove
January 6, 2003
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Two interviews were published in the local papers on
December 19, 2002. Dr. Susan Moor, Director of Guidance was interviewed by
Janet Brown. Diane Scricca, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and
Instruction was interviewed by Richard Tortorici.
The Coalition for Glen Cove has joined the Alliance
for Quality Education, a coalition of over 200 organizations that advocate
for the public schools in NY State.
The Coalition purchased an "advertisement" in the
Deasy/Landing auction dinner and comedy night program.
We continue to send out postcards to those members
who do not have e-mail.
The Coalition will not recommend anyone for
replacement of Phil Enright on the school board. The board had already
decided to operate minus the one member until the election this spring.
There will be one position open. You can let Don Scarl know if you would
like to recommend someone or yourself to run for the school board. The
term will be 3 years.
We discussed the possibility of adding web pages
about each of our school board members to the Coalition site. This would
help our community members better appreciate each of their representatives
by giving them more background on each board member.
The Coalition will encourage the GC Schools to
provide "bios" about their many fine teachers...Ex. "Meet the Math
Department"
We would like to see more articles about our schools
and students in the local papers. Perhaps some high school students could
take this on as a community service....attend events, take photos and send
brief articles to the papers.
We would like to have a connection to the PTA at each
school. Anyone interested for the elementary schools? Helen Kotzky can
do this for the middle and high schools.
The school board is working on the new budget. This
year promises to be a difficult one financially, based on the news of
shortfalls in Albany. In discussion, coalition members mentioned the
following areas which need to be considered: computer staff/technicians,
social workers, guidance staff, full scheduling for 11th graders, high
school instrumental music staff, science research and public relations,
as well as keeping up with the "No Child Left Behind" Federal Legislation.
Helen Kotzky |