The Cherokee County Board of Education is telling the county’s delegation to the Gold Dome what educational issues it would like the legislature to address during the 2016 session. Much of the menu boils down to finances and to local control in schools.
The superintendent’s 2016 legislative program OK’d by the board includes asking state lawmakers to fully restore state school funding cuts enacted during the Great Recession, address skyrocketing premiums and costs associated with the state health plan, stop the erosion of the state tax base through tax exemptions for private companies and put the brakes on any programs using public money to pay for private school tuition and/or tax incentives.
Board members also went on record as supporting local school control as opposed to possible state takeovers of troubled districts and favoring correct evaluation models for teachers and administrators to put greater emphasis on performance observations.
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