Wednesday, September 12, 2012
The Cobb Board of Education voted Wednesday against a motion to initiate proceedings against board member David Banks.
After trying for two months to formally rebuke one of her colleagues, Cobb Board of Education member Kathleen Angelucci couldn't get enough votes to trigger an official hearing on the matter. On Wednesday morning the school board rejected, by a 4-3 vote, her motion to conduct censure proceedings against David Banks, whom she accused in July of violating numerous board ethics policies. Voting with Banks to deny the motion were board members Lynnda Eagle, chairman Scott Sweeney and vice chairman David Morgan. Alison Bartlett and Tim Stultz voted with Angelucci in favor of the motion, which according to school board attorney Clem Doyle would have initiated a hearing process that would have called for a 30-day advance notification, the …
Thursday, August 9, 2012
A proposal to take action against newly re-elected member David Banks will resume in September.
The Cobb Board of Education was supposed to discuss a possible censure measure against one of its own members on Wednesday, but that move has been postponed. Board member Kathleen Angelucci, who last month proposed censuring colleague David Banks, asked for the delay so the full board could take up the matter. Fellow board member Lynnda Eagle was absent from Wednesday's regular work session. A discussion of the options facing the board has been put on the agenda of its Sept. 12 work session. "If this board does vote to proceed" with a motion to censure, Cobb school board attorney Clem Doyle said during the meeting, "I would recommend that it be confined to the issue at hand, in order to be fair to all." Angelucci, who represents Post 4 (…
Monday, July 30, 2012
July 31 will be an important day in the history of Cobb County and the Metro Atlanta area.
Residents of Northeast Cobb County are expected to turn out in large numbers to cast their ballots on a myriad of local and county-wide issues and races during Tuesday's election. The biggest issue on the ballot is the TSPLOST referendum, covered in local and state media extensively. If passed, the referendum would add a one cent sales tax to pay for transportation infrastructure improvements in the Metro Atlanta area. The proposed tax has been hotly debated over the last few months, with pro and anti TSPLOST groups making their opinions known. Another statewide issue is House Resolution 1162, which would allow the state to override the decision of local school boards to reject charter schools in their jurisdiction. Tensions flared earlier…
Friday, July 20, 2012
Kathleen Angelucci claims David Banks violated board ethics by contacting school employees about his political opponents.
Cobb Board of Education member Kathleen Angelucci has publicly accused one of her colleagues of unethical behavior and has asked for him to be censured. At the end of the board's long business meeting Thursday night, Angelucci claimed that David Banks "compromised school board ethics" by seeking to obtain information about a political opponent through Cobb County School District employees. Banks is in a difficult re-election battle in the July 31 Republican primary for the Post 5 seat, which includes the Lassiter and Pope high school districts of East Cobb. Angelucci, who represents Northeast Cobb's Post 4 (Kell, Sprayberry and North Cobb high schools), said Banks "attempted to influence the election" by admitting in his own e-mail …
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The incumbent East Cobb school board member said he "will not be held hostage" by the Cobb County Association of Educators, which supports his opponent.
A week after his primary opponent was endorsed by the leading teachers' group in the county, Cobb Board of Education member David Banks has lashed out at both. Banks, who is seeking a second term to the Post 5 seat in East and Northeast Cobb, was highly critical of the Cobb County Association Association of Educators for its support of Lisa Hanson in the July 31 Republican primary. "The one thing that is very apparent and should be of utmost concern to all Post 5 voters is the fact that teacher union support is totally predicated on absolute adherence to their agenda," Banks said in his e-mail newsletter distributed on Monday. "I support and have strongly supported Cobb teachers when that support was in the best interest of student …
Thursday, July 5, 2012
A challenger to Post 5 school board incumbent David Banks has won the support of the Cobb County Association of Educators.
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
Cobb Board of Education candidate Lisa Hanson has been endorsed by the Cobb County Association of Educators. Hanson, who lives in the Lassiter High School district in Northeast Cobb, is one of three Republicans running in the July 31 primary for the Post 5 seat currently held by David Banks. He is seeking re-election, and the other candidate on the ballot is Stephanie Henry, a parent in Pope High School and Hightower Trail Middle School communities. According to Bre Peeler Sanders, Chair of the CCAE Political Action Committee, the organization agreed to endorse Ms. Hanson’s campaign based on her dedication to public education. “I am pleased and honored to be endorsed by the CCAE," Hanson said. "I believe this endorsement shows that the …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
The county Board of Education keeps both options on the table leading up to the passage of a final budget next week.
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
We won’t know how many furlough days and how many school days will be part of the next Cobb County school year until the Cobb Board of Education passes the final fiscal 2013 budget May 17. The school board delved into the Cobb County School District’s fiscal woes during Wednesday’s work session. Most of the talk was long-term, big-picture stuff: the state’s role in putting Cobb in a budget hole; the likelihood of next year’s budget being much tougher; the effects of state charter schools; the declining educational opportunities in the county; and the need for a dramatically different educational model. “We are not providing the education that Cobb County expects, and we’ve got to find another way,” Post 7 board member Alison Bartlett said…
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
A preliminary vote to address a projected $62 million budget deficit headlines Thursday's school board agenda.
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
The first major step in what figures to be some painful budget-cutting decisions by the Cobb Board of Education begins tonight. The school board is slated to vote on a tentative fiscal 2013 budget that includes a recommendation to shrink the teaching staff by hundreds of positions to help eliminate a projected $62 million deficit. Mike Addison, the Cobb County School District's chief financial officer, is suggesting that cutting 350 teaching jobs by attrition, imposing five furlough days, increasing class sizes, and other measures, including using $21 million in reserve funds, be undertaken to balance the budget. But school board member David Banks, writing over the weekend in East Cobb Patch and Northeast Cobb Patch, questioned most of …
Sunday, April 22, 2012
At the April 11 school board work session Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, through CFO Mike Addison, presented recommendations for the Fiscal 2013 School District Budget. These recommendations contained some drastic cuts in teacher and staff positions.
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
By David Banks, Cobb County School Board Post 5 Superintendent Michael Hinojosa, through his CFO Mike Addison, presented recommendations for the Fiscal 2013 School District Budget at an April 11 school board work session. The recommendations contained some drastic cuts in teacher and staff positions, along with reductions in instructional time by imposing five furlough days and, increasing “average” class sizes by two students. Additionally, the budget proposal included utilizing approximately $21.1M from the existing “$100M Reserve Funds”. My question to Mr. Addison was, with $100M in “reserve funds” sitting in the bank, from a monetary standpoint is there any reason to make the above proposed budget cuts? Mr. Addison’s immediate …
Thursday, April 12, 2012
The county Board of Education wants to hear public comments on the new district lines.
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
The Cobb County Board of Education will seek public feedback on the new map of the board's seven districts at its next meeting. Board Chairman Scott Sweeney on Wednesday added the school board's reapportionment to the agenda for the board's April 26 meeting. Gov. Nathan Deal had not signed H.B. 1208, the legislation redrawing the election districts in Cobb, as of Thursday morning, but he is expected to do so. The legislation uses a map that's different from what the school board itself proposed, so board members are anxious about what the map shows. David Banks of Post 5 in East and Northeast Cobb this week distributed a link to a map from the Legislative and Congressional Reapportionment Office, which is attached to this article as a PDF …
William Compton
4:15 pm on Thursday, September 13, 2012
When you suspect poisoning, you eliminate the poison.........Angelucci more ›