The Times Caddo residents are paying for additional classroom wings at 26 schools that are experiencing a decline in enrollment. Some Caddo Parish School Board members were surprised and miffed that Superintendent Robert Schiller took the school consolidation plan to the U.S. Justice Department four weeks ago without letting them know. The board spent more than 11 hours dissecting and voting on each of the 69 points in Superintendent Robert Schiller s proposal to reorganize district schools, approving nearly all of them. A day after the Caddo Parish School Board presented its answers to solving the problem of under-performing schools, students and teachers at two Caddo Parish middle schools were left with numerous questions. Some parents, teachers and students at Herndon Elementary and Herndon Middle Magnet schools will tell you they were victorious in the Tuesday night Caddo Parish School Board vote on Superintendent Robert Schiller s school restructuring plan.
Tonight s public forum on the future of Caddo public schools is sure to be emotional.
In a laudable move, Caddo Schools Superintendent Robert Schiller offered a compromise last week relative to possible school closures. The Caddo Parish School Board took more than 11 hours in often painstaking detail to approve most of the school restructuring plan by Superintendent Robert Schiller. Send us your questions and comments .