Hundreds of minority residents attended a Palm Beach County School Board meeting at the invitation of Superintendent Art Johnson to balance protests over the school district's academic reforms carried by mostly white parents for three months, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported on Nov. 17.
"It seems like a war is going on among us," Pahokee Commissioner Allie Biggs said, lending her support for the initiatives. "I just think we're bigger than that."
Many of the protesters who attended the Oct. 21 board meeting returned on Nov. 17. They implored officials to "can the curriculum" and halt "one-size-fits-all" mandates.
That's not what Johnson expected when he announced Oct. 23 that his administration no longer would dictate to schools how to manage academic programs.
Parents and teachers say schools have continued the initiatives: extra tests of required lessons, outlines and schedules for teachers and assigning multiple teachers for students in third through fifth grades.
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