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Teachers and parents urge district to address leadership turnover and curriculum gaps during public comments
Summary
Community members used the March 20 board meeting public comment period to call for strategies to retain principals and to replace or update curriculum materials; a teachers’ union representative asked the board to develop internal leadership pipelines.
During the public comment segment of the Wheeling CCSD 21 meeting on March 20, community members and staff raised concerns about principal turnover, leadership development, and curriculum materials.
Ben Coleman, president of the District 21 Education Association, told the board the union wants a regular, transparent line of communication with the district and urged development of internal pathways to grow school leaders. Coleman described the nationwide shortage of qualified candidates for principal roles and said the district’s staff include…
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