Article Roundup: All Walker County Schools Coverage In One Place
From the beginning to now: Read every article on Walker County Schools in order.
During the past few years, I've written extensively on education issues, particularly highlighting Walker County Schools. For those just discovering my work, I've assembled this compilation of my articles on Walker County Schools and Education, arranged in chronological order. Here’s the collection starting from the earliest articles.
Walker School Board Cannot Be Allowed To Double Down On Failure
“surely taxpayers should be worried about how the increased revenues from school property taxes will be spent to arrest the abysmal reading literacy rates among students and who will lead that charge this coming year as well as the years beyond. To ignore the past while asking more of the future is a betrayal of the public trust.”
Walker School Board & Leadership Ravaged By Nepotism and Ethics Dilemmas
It has been more than a century since Walt Whitman spoke of the never-ending audacity of government officials. It remains true today as it was then. Walker County's board of education and district leadership abundantly demonstrate this in northwest Georgia. Four school board members have been in clear violation of both state laws governing eligibility t…
Lead in School Water: Did Walker County District Leadership Cover It Up?
I’ll spare you the mystery: it sure looks like it. ***UPDATE: Walker County Board of Education meeting will be 6/19/23 at 6:00. An email I sent to the Walker County Board of Education is posted at the end of this article. Across the country over the last few years, governments, the media, and the general public have become much more concerned and educated …
Misplaced Priorities & Trust Lost: Walker County Schools Response to Lead Contamination
“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” - Thomas Sowell Walker County parents needed to hear the truth. The truth is that for the last semester, the leadership of Walker county schools kept secret the fact that lead (the toxic metal) was found in the drinking and cook…
The Walker County Trio
Laws are not mere words on paper; they uphold the values of a community. Over a decade ago, Georgia enacted a law stating that if you have an immediate family member — be it a son, daughter, sibling, or parent — in roles such as superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other system administrative positions within a school district, you cannot …
Lead Levels and Legal Battles: Walker County Schools' Mounting Controversies
Contents: A Lesson Not Learned Basics to Remember About Lead in Drinking Water Dueling Dilemmas: The Court Case Against Two School Board Members Ethics Concerns For Superintendent A Lesson Not Learned Where there is no accountability, history is destined to repeat itself. The unaccountable leadership of Walker County Schools seems intent to repeat history an…
Board Member’s Outcry Over Superintendent Contract Extension
In the April 15th meeting of the Walker County Board of Education, the chair of the board made a courageous statement in opposition to the decision to extend the Superintendent's contract. The statement, read aloud and submitted for the record, raises valid concerns about the timing of the vote, past precedent, the respect given to newly elected board m…
Walker County Schools Executive Sessions Violate Open Meetings Laws
In 1788, when our country was in it’s infancy, a prescient patriot named Patrick Henry sounded an alarm about Government behind closed doors. "The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure," Henry proclaimed, "when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
Walker GOP Drops the Hammer on 3 School Board Members!
Five minutes. That’s all Jackie Harling needed to set the room on fire. In a breathless verbal assault, the no-nonsense chairwoman of the Walker County GOP took no prisoners. Constrained by the restrictive time limit, Harling blitzed through a resolution passed by the party censuring three school board members for their recent vote to extend Superintend…
Ignored, Forgotten, or Hidden? The Unrevealed Policy Walker County Schools Leadership Ignored
In Walker County, Georgia, an unseen school board policy has recently come to light, exposing significant issues within the local school district’s governance and leadership calling district integrity and transparency into question, again. This policy, which had been hidden from public view and was not disclosed when a request was made for “all board po…