For the guy who wrote me asking how one gets information: I assume you mean from the schools. It's easy. The schools have to give citizens anything written even if it's on a piece of toilet paper. The Sunshine Law says so. You write your request to the public affairs office of the schools. Linda Cobbe is the person to write to. If you don't get the data within a few days, send a follow-up memo until you do get it. leeBurnt Fort's yearly dinner on the grounds with two of my aunts in their 90's. Our family cemetery and little church are here. The church fell down from age, and the family men rebuilt it from timbers at the edge of the clearing. We have a historic one-room school house on the edge of the clearing. Our Civil War dead lie in the very back of the cemetery. One boy was only 17. The wicked Yankees burnt Burnt Fort, of course.
I want everybody to come to the Teachers' Forum on August 22--especially those who have been calling me names the last week or so. I want to see how much you look like Bela Lugosi. I am getting a mullet hairdo for the event. I don't want to be out of style. lee
Teachers’ Political Forum
Ask everything you want to know at the Teachers’ Political Forum!
We invited School Board members, candidates, and Superintendent Mary Ellen Elia .
Time: Friday, August 15, 2008 at 5pm
Place: The Columbia Restaurant; the King's Room
2117 East 7th Avenue
Tampa, Florida 33605
Price: $12.50
Special Guests:
Tampa Tribune
CTA Officials
ROSSAC Personnel
School Board Members
School Board Candidates
Patrick Manteiga La Gaceta publisher
Teachers: Let your voice be heard, Now is the time to solicit responses from those who set the professional and political climate of Hillsborough County’s Public Schools. Ask about issues concerning the teaching profession including, but not limited to:
- Three -hundred minutes
- 6/7 Plan
- Text-book adoption
- Springboard curriculum
- Final exams’ grading scales
- AP -and-honors placement
- AP bonuses
2 comments:
I have a question for you, and after reading your blog for more than a year now I am pretty sure you can help me.
Where would one go downtown to view an evaluation for a school district employee?
Also, would this employee be notified if their file was viewed?
Lee is right. You email or go to Linda Cobbe and ask to see a copy of the file. They have to prepare it for you. My suspicion is that if you ask to see a teacher's file whom they do not like they will probably slip in some bad stuff that they normally would have to notify the teacher they are placing in the teacher's file, but if you are investigating a top district officials' file they will probably pull any bad things out and probably never put the items in there in the first place. You have a right to view these files as a citizen, but the files are probably bare bones and not much info, although you can see evaluations of the employee. I believe that the employee is notified if anything is placed in his/her file, but I am not sure about whether he/she has to be notified that someone has requested copies or to view it, b/c they are public records and the employee should already know that they can be viewed by people. The ROSSAC building is downtown and the address is on the SDHC website.
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