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Editor’s Note: Welcome to Weekly Education: Coronavirus special edition. Each week, we will explore how the pandemic is reshaping and upending education as we know it across the country, from pre-K through grad school. We will explore the debates of the day, new challenges and talk to movers and shakers about whether changes ushered in now are here to stay.
Here’s why DeSoto ISD is celebrating its school board members this month
The school district is joining other districts across the state in marking “School Board Recognition Month.”
DeSoto ISD administration building in DeSoto, Texas on Thursday, September 5, 2020. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News)(Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer)
DeSoto ISD marked the start of “School Board Recognition Month” with a news release celebrating its trustees.
“Much like our other trustees, our school board members are elected as volunteers who shoulder critical responsibilities and even make some difficult choices in the best interest of our students,” Superintendent D’Andre J. Weaver said in the news release. “Their focus is aimed at ensuring a successful future for the children we serve.”
What Principals Want From the Incoming Biden Administration and Congress Subscribe 6 min read
President-elect Joe Biden speaks at The Queen Theater on Dec. 29, 2020, in Wilmington, Del.Andrew Harnik/AP Share article Copy URL
Fund schools to pre-recession levels to cope with the local economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. Increase funding for literacy programs. Support policies and programs that will diversify the principalship and the larger educator workforce.
Fund school mental health programs and technology infrastructure to close the digital divide that was laid bare during the coronavirus shutdowns.
And create a standing principals’ cabinet or similar federal-level forum to allow principals and school leaders to weigh in on education policies and to tap their expertise on school leadership needs and priorities.
A native of the Florence area, Allie Brooks earned a bachelor’s degree and a Commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army from South Carolina State University in 1968. Afterwards, he received a master’s degree in Education Administration from the University of South Carolina in 1974 and Education Specialist Degree in 2014. He completed the Institute on the Principal and School Improvement in 1987 at Harvard University. In 2006, he was awarded an honorary degree from Francis Marion University. He serves on the Board of Trustees of McLeod Health.
He has served as president of the S.C. Association of Secondary School Principals (SCASSP), the 4-A Principals Conference, and the S.C. High School League. Brooks was named Outstanding Principal of the Year in 1986-87 and 2000 by the SCASSP.