Category: General

June 9, 2015 Araminta Johnston, shown in this clip from the school board’s Requests from the Public section of its June 9 meeting, is a co-founder of The Swann Fellowship.

June 9, 2015 Tim Morgan is an at-large member of the school board.

  Jan. 8, 2015

Dec. 11, 2014 Two conversations at the Fellowship’s meeting this morning bore on current topics of public interest. Procedural oversight CMS board member Eric Davis continues to suggest publicly that the school board hire outside counsel to examine due-process questions raised by the resignation of Supt. Heath Morrison. Sadly, he may well see such narrow Read More …

Nov. 7, 2014 We used to see it in schoolhouses in the ’70s and ’80s. Some teachers lived in fear of old-school principals who could wield unchecked power on a campus while system officials were distracted by assignment and budgets and the like. This week’s resignation of Supt. Heath Morrison brought to light more fear, Read More …

Source: democracync.org Oct. 11, 2014 “Black turnout dropped by 3.7 percentage points more than white turnout in Kansas, and by 1.5 percentage points more than whites in Tennessee after voter ID laws passed. “Among 18-year-olds, turnout dropped by 7.1 percentage points more in Kansas than it did among those aged 44- to 53-year-olds in Kansas. Read More …

Aug. 15, 2014 Perhaps Ferguson, Missouri will once again bend the arc of history toward justice. After many nights of horrific conflict reminiscent of the 1960s, Highway Patrol officials walked with protesting residents Thursday, protecting them as well as signaling an end to law enforcement overreaction in the wake of the fatal shooting of an Read More …

July 6, 2014 “Welcome to my new page!” Heath Morrison wrote as he launched a “Heath’s Hot Topics” blog last year. “So much of my job has to do with communicating information….” In a May 2013 communication, CMS said the superintendent would “share his observations, his thoughts on big issues and initiatives impacting our district, Read More …

June 20, 2014 “Science actually shows that when you’re struggling to solve a problem or to understand a concept, you’re forming new pathways and connections in your brain. “So struggling isn’t a bad thing.  It is not a sign of weakness – in fact, it’s a sign of growth.  It’s a sign that you’re expanding Read More …

Dec. 16, 2012 From the President’s address at a memorial service today in Newtown, Connecticut: “Someone once described the joy and anxiety of parenthood as the equivalent of having your heart outside of your body all the time, walking around.  With their very first cry, this most precious, vital part of ourselves – our child Read More …