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Could Beach, county share superintendent?
Colonial Beach mayor-elect proposes putting town and Westmoreland County schools under one superintendent
Date published: 6/14/2008
BY FRANK DELANO Colonial Beach Mayor-elect Frederick C. Rummage plans to pursue combining the school superintendencies of the town and Westmoreland County when he takes office July 1. "Spending more than $600,000 for the Colonial Beach school superintendent's office is not justified for a school system this size. It's asinine for this little town to have a superintendent with less than 600 students," Rummage said at a Town Council meeting Thursday. Rummage estimated that a superintendent's office shared by the county and the town could save the town $200,000-$300,000 a year in "top-hierarchy" expenses. He said he was not proposing to merge the two school systems. "We should keep the Colonial Beach School Board and let them agree on the selection of the superintendent," he said. "I don't know if that dog will hunt," said Westmoreland County School Board Chairman Daniel Wallace. "It's almost an untenable suggestion that one person could do two jobs while trying to maintain two separate school systems. "On the other hand, if the two systems truly consolidated, there could be huge economic benefits to both the county and the town," he said. "But the Colonial Beach school is such a very strong part of the Colonial Beach identity that [consolidation] would be a very difficult decision." Maintaining a separate school division has long been a tenet of Colonial Beach political life. But, like Colonial Beach politics in general, the town's five-member school board is often engulfed in controversy. Alice H. Howard's seven-year tenure as superintendent has seen several. Howard declined to comment on Rummage's proposal. In May, voters replaced three long-term allies of Howard with new board members highly critical of her and the board's financial and educational policies. The new members will take their seats July 1. One of them, Timothy J. Trivett, said Thursday that he has requested a special School Board meeting on that date so that the new board can select its chairman and set a meeting schedule.
Date published: 6/14/2008
Unless you have children
(posted by
meitli02
, June 16, 2008 8:35 am)
you would not understand. I pay for my children to go to Colonial Beach Schools. A merger is not the solution but there are some changes that need to be made. I went to a Westmoreland School and I love CB Schools and so do my kids!!!!!
Unless you have children
(posted by
meitli02
, June 16, 2008 8:35 am)
you would not understand. I pay for my children to go to Colonial Beach Schools. A merger is not the solution but there are some changes that need to be made. I went to a Westmoreland School and I love CB Schools and so do my kids!!!!!
You Would'nt Understand
(posted by
BeachBum
, June 14, 2008 4:10 pm)
It's pride, it"s tradistion, something the "Comerheres" would not understand. We put 4 kids through the CB schools, and they all have turned out just fine. I just hope there is still enough "Oldtimers" left to shoot down this idea.....
Here we go........................................
(posted by
fireball
, June 14, 2008 1:07 am)
Let's see how much traction this idea gets. Something tells me there will be a hubbub reminiscient of Hurricane Isabel amongst the "save CB schools at all costs" crowd. The question I have for them is-how can one of the smallest, most sparsely populated and poorest (in terms of per capita income) continue to justify having two independent school systems much longer?
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