Talk:Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky)

message: I've added my source list for the article. Unfortunately, there aren't too many sources to work with on the pre-merger side of things. However, I was able to retrieve a couple of pertinent articles from the C-J and blend them in to improve that section. Do you think we have enough to remove the stub designation? If not, what do you feel we need? --Braindrain0000 12:50, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's clearly no longer a stub.  Perhaps its governing/revenue structure could be discussed more thoroughly (including the relationships between all the stakeholders), along with a list of current board members.  Thank you immensely for all the work you have put into this.  Cheers! Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 15:03, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source Info Added, etc. 

message: I like the material on the Board of Education, but I'm wondering: Is the Board considered a part of JCPS or is it a separate oversight/governing board?  If it's the latter, it may deserve its own article, especially since we tend to put all elected assemblies/individuals into their own articles. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 17:00, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's complicated. I'm reading the Board Policy Manual right now. It sounds more like a separate oversight board when defined verbatim from the Kentucky Revised Statutes. Technically, it reports to the State Board of Education, so on and so forth, but it functions nearly identically to a Board of Directors for a corporation. Even if standard policy is to make elected groups into their own articles, I'm not sure it's profitable to do here, as there is not much information distinct from the identity of the school district. Also, the terms "Jefferson County Public Schools" and "Jefferson County Board of Education" are nearly synonymous from a legal standpoint. All union agreements are made with JCBE, with a team of JCPS employees generally acting as the representatives of the board. Is there a precedent for separating a school board into a separate article from school district proper? --Braindrain0000 21:19, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know.  This is a new one on me.  And this does appear a bit complicated. I suppose that for now, JCBE should redirect to this article. Thanks. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 22:08, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Board of Education

message: Thanks for not wholesale reverting my changes.  I think your revisions may be introducing point of view.  If you're trying to encourage people to consider the Bluegrass Initiative's position, you might want to know that your changes actually make the Bluegrass Initiative's position sound less reputable - it now comes across as a position that can't stand on its own.  It must be pushed with words like "only" (implying that there is an expectation, which is point of view), "documented" (implying that there has been specific investigation and testing for the purpose of comparing the rating systems, which is not shown in the cited article), and "conveyed" (which is ambiguous unless it specified to whom something is being conveyed).  If you don't let the facts speak for themselves then it will continue to come across as PR-speak, and readers will recognize it as PR-speak and discredit the entire idea.  I don't know enough about the situation to care (except that Wikipedia's guidelines require Neutral Point of View), but I'm interested in your thoughts on this. --Hebisddave (talk) 21:22, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bluegrass Initiative and Every 1 Reads 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Jefferson County Public Schools Kentucky Logo.png

message: "Now that Wake County, North Carolina abandoned its SES plan Jefferson County - JCPS is the largest district in the United States with true diversity."
"With true diversity". The tone of that seems to break NPOV in favor of the very controversial busing policy JCPS is currently using. It doesn't sound like a purely factual, neutral tone of voice to me, it sounds like it is speaking favorably of the policy.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.210.74.18 (talk) 18:33, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV violation? 

message: Substituted at 19:44, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment