For Immediate Release: For more information contact:
June 17, 2014 Rep. Genise Montecillo at (573) 751-9472
STATEMENT
RE: State Board of Education decision on Normandy schools
“The State Board of Education’s action yesterday regarding the student transfer situation in the Normandy School District continues the comedy of errors that has played out with the department on this issue.
“Yesterday’s decision, based on recommendations by Commissioner Chris Nicastro, is the most recent in a long line of irresponsible decisions made by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. If this is what the commissioner and department had intended to do, it should have done it a year ago to avoid putting Normandy students and parents through a year of turmoil and plunging the district into bankruptcy.
“I have consistently questioned Commissioner Nicastro’s abuse of power and irresponsible decisions at the expense of students in struggling communities. It is time, for the sake of Missouri’s children, to put a stop to these experiments.”
State Rep. Genise Montecillo
D-St. Louis County
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