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Representative Tom Brinkman Primary and Secondary Education
Roundtable
The event took place on 1-May-2017 at the Anderson Center. It was by invitation only from people who
took Rep. Brinkman’s constituent survey and indicated that Primary and Secondary Education was a top
4 concern. Seventeen people attended the roundtable.
Initial introductions
We began with introductions in which participants expressed what they saw as needs or problems in the
areas of Primary and Secondary Education:
• Funding and charter school oversight.
• Economically disadvantaged students falling through the cracks.
• Special needs and gifted education.
• Access to consistent education (income / geography).
• Over testing.
• Resource drain for a small population (ex: certain special needs cases).
• Directives from the State Board of Education.
• Kids being ready for school.
• Poverty.
• Early childhood education.
• Too many disadvantaged students.
• Too many failing districts.
• Proper allocation of resources.
• Teacher reward and incentive approaches.
• Inequality between districts.
Initial electronic profile questions
A series of electronic response profile questions was asked after introductions to understand differing
perspectives.
Kids in primary or secondary school
• 75% of attendees did not have a kid currently in a primary or secondary school.
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