{"id":86418,"date":"2015-11-03T07:48:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T13:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=86418"},"modified":"2015-11-03T07:59:34","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T13:59:34","slug":"jps-board-to-form-focus-group-assess-fail-referendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=86418","title":{"rendered":"JPS focus group to assess failed referendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Jmst-public-schools.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4825\" alt=\"Jmst public schools\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Jmst-public-schools-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Jmst-public-schools-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Jmst-public-schools-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Jmst-public-schools.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Public School Board will begin to review the process concerning how to move forward in the wake of the September failed $19 million referendum to expand and improve elementary schools.<\/p>\n<p>The board Monday directed Superintendent Robert Lech to start the process of forming a community focus group to look at why people supported or didn\u2019t support the project, and if people voted no, then why they did not support the project.<\/p>\n<p>The focus group will consist of 10 to 12 individuals who can act as a coalition and asked for interested people to contact him at his office. The group would assess the referendum and provide recommendations to the board as suggestions to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>Board member Robert Toso said the focus group should not dwell too much on the past but should include feedback about why people did or did not support the referendum.<\/p>\n<p>In other business the board reported that Lech was given a 2.96 out of a possible 3 on his performance evaluation,covering the areas of curriculum, staff, service, business, program and facilities management in addition to professionalism and accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown Public School Board will begin to review the process concerning how to move forward in the wake of the September failed $19 million referendum to expand and improve elementary schools. The board Monday directed Superintendent Robert Lech to start the process of forming a community focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86427,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86418\/revisions\/86427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}