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District 2 Media Coverage

Salt Lake City Board Member Blasted For Calling Teachers Ineffective (Tribune)

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Education » Response to Michael Clara’s complaint has centered on its wording, rather than the district’s data on west-side teachers.     By Ray Parker| The Salt Lake Tribune          March 14, 2013       Link To Article Salt Lake City School Board member Michael Clara’s federal complaint about ineffective and inexperienced teachers in west-side schools has sparked outrage — not about the issues he raises, but about his word choice. … Continue reading →

Red Meat Radio 860 AM

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  Had a great time this morning with Representative Greg Hughes                                            and Senator Howard Stephenson. I was a guest on the conservative RED MEAT RADIO  this morning, discussing how the dysfunction on the school district level is negatively impacting west side schools. I’ll post the podcast later this week. It airs every Saturday morning from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 … Continue reading →

English-Learners’ Lot Improves With Federal Pressure (Education Week)

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At the March 5th, 2013 -School Board Meeting, Ms. Becky Bissegger  said “…We must teach an hour of ELD, English Language Development every day due to a previous OCR Mandate initiated by Mr. Clara” This story is from Education Week 2009 -It gives the history of what happen. At the end of this story is a link to a Salt Lake Tribune article about the same issue. The Tribune says: “Michael Clára, the west-side community advocate whose complaint … Continue reading →

Angry Salt Lake Teachers Demand Apology From School Board Member (KUTV)

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Link to Story (video) By Cristina Flores (KUTV) Teacher Becky Bisegger spoke for dozens of teachers who showed up at the meeting of the Salt Lake City School Board Tuesday night. “We are appalled at the suggestion that west side teachers are ineffective and too inexperienced,” said Bisegger. The “ineffective” remark was made by new school board member Michael Clara in recent comments to the Salt Lake Tribune. Clara recently filed a complaint with the U.S. … Continue reading →

Are School Boards Too Insulated? (Deseret News)

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By John Florez , Deseret News Published: Saturday, March 2 2013 12:00 a.m. MST Sometimes the cover up is worse than the problem. School boards often appear to avoid dealing with serious policy matters. At Salt Lake school district meeting last week, board members were listening to a presentation by their staff regarding the district’s Student Achievement Plan. One of the presenters noted a correlation between student achievement and teacher effectiveness, which prompted newly-elected board … Continue reading →

Salt Lake City School District Favors East Side, Says Board Member (KSL)

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By Andrew Adams  Link To Video SALT LAKE CITY — Is Salt Lake City’s east side better than the west side? When it comes to elementary school teachers, one school board member thinks so. Michael Clara filed a federal complaint accusing the Salt Lake City School District of not allocating enough resources to west side schools. Clara said there are too many inexperienced and ineffective teachers at west side elementary schools, due to attrition. Why … Continue reading →