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Trey Csar speaking last year at Terry Parker for a Learning To Finish Announcement

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Special Guests – Trey Csar (Jacksonville Public Education Fund), Mary Kelli (Education Reporter)

Upcoming School Board Town Hall Meetings

Thursday, March 11
Sandalwood High School, 2750 John Prom Blvd, 32246

Tuesday, March 16
Frank H. Peterson Academies of Technology, 7450 Wilson Blvd., 32210

Thursday, March 18
Jean Ribault High School, 3701 Winton Dr., 32208

Tuesday, March 23
Mandarin High School, 4831 Greenland Rd., 32258

Jacksonville Public Education Fund

new group
help school district realign and refocus as a system
___ Collaborative
“critical friend” of school board

if half the dropouts had graduated last year, we’d have an additional $$$???
not enough money
school day reduced by 45 minutes
what needs to be done with the little money available
another brutal year
anticipated shortfalls will not be pretty
fairly progressive with local revenue
member of state consortium
lack the patience to allow the value of education to bear fruit
Urban Education Symposium
Twitter – @jaxpef
elected v. appointed officials
more important who’s there rather than how they get there
school board is paid
give leaders freedom but accountability and they will be able to change schools
“visionary leader”
no excuses!
takes more than a year to move a school
plateaus are common
change takes time
judging teachers based on how well students do
work with state and union to ratify ____ memorandum
no appointed board members in FL
food fight
no one is happy with education quality
John Delaney
JTA appointed, JEA appointed (crappy beauracracies)
Constitutional issue

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Coming Up on Urban Jacksonville Weekly

March 1st – Walk a Mile In Their Shoes with Tom McManus and Kelly DeGance join us to talk about Walk a Mile In Their Shoes, a 5K to benefit the Sulzbacher.
March 15st: Josh Jubinsky from the Jacksonville Public Library will join us to talk about the Zine collection.

Tags: Education, Jacksonville Public Education Fund, JAXPEF, Mary Kelli Palka, Race to the Top, School Board, Trey Csar

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Jacksonville Public Education Fund President Trey Csar guests on Urban Jacksonville Weekly Monday February 8th at 9:30am
w/ guest Mary Kelli Palka, education reporter at the Times-Union
Watch Live on UrbanJacksonvilleWeekly.com

One item that doesn’t get much positive attention in Jacksonville is education. Now that I’m a parent of 2 (gulp) children, it’s something I’m forced to think about on a weekly, and increasingly, daily basis as my 4 year old prepares to enter kindergarten.

Magnet school or neighborhood school? Private or public? Will we make the right decisions and how will they map the future course of our child’s education? One question we have answered is we’ll be staying right here in Duval County.

This Monday we’ll be talking to Trey Csar, President of the Jacksonville Public Education Fund. The non-profit organization was formed in 2009 to take the place of the former The Alliance for World Class Education, which worked for more than 10 years on teacher recognition and enhancing non-instructional areas of the Duval County school system.

It is focused on student achievement, especially for at-risk students and in lower-performing schools and has the following goals:

work with local education and community leaders to create programs to help reduce drop-outs
increase the graduation rate
erase the achievement gap

There’s not much information online about the JPEF so this should be an informative show. The best place to keep up with them is the Jacksonville Public Education Fund Twitter account.