New Rochelle School Board Calls Vision 2030 Community Input “Early” More Than a Year After Initiative Began

The New Rochelle Board of Education is inviting public input on Vision 2030 more than a year after launching the initiative, generating 31 ideas and narrowing its focus to a handful of proposals without publicly accounting for how those decisions were made. The Board has also refused to answer questions about its planning process, missed deadlines and now we have the unexplained disappearance of the Lincoln attendance zone proposal from its latest materials.

The danger for the Board of Education is that its handling of Vision 2030 may lead residents to question whether this is genuinely a community-driven planning initiative or an effort to advance a preexisting educational philosophy through a process designed to give the appearance of public participation.

Read the entire article in Words in Edgewise.