{"id":3208,"date":"2015-03-19T08:38:54","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T14:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2015-03-19T08:38:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T14:38:54","slug":"citizen-rails-pc-caps-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/19\/citizen-rails-pc-caps-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Rails Against PC CAPS Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Tuesday&#8217;s Park City School Board meeting, a citizen who represents some members of the Park City High School PTO and Community Council spoke very critically about the school&#8217;s PC CAPS program. Her main issues&nbsp;were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seems to be claims by parents and students that haven&#8217;t been followed up by the school district<\/li>\n<li>Enrollment is flat, yet additional funds are being poured into the program<\/li>\n<li>Students were denied withdrawal requests in order to keep the program&#8217;s headcount up<\/li>\n<li>In the 2015-2016 school year, enrollment in PC CAPS is up slightly but that&#8217;s due to the addition of sophomores<\/li>\n<li>There are unsubstantiated claims that PC CAPS has helped students get into colleges when their grades and SATs were low. The citizen said they had contacted the program&#8217;s director multiple times to get proof of these claims but have never received anything<\/li>\n<li>Believes the program&#8217;s director has written negative things about traditional education on a personal blog and believes that goes against what our school&#8217;s are emphasizing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in all, it was a pretty scathing attack.<\/p>\n<p>The School Board&#8217;s response to this Public Comment (in written form) was:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Concerns were brought forth regarding budget and enrollment of the PCCAPS program. A request was made for a full review of the program. The superintendent, under her administrative duties, will provide a report to the governing board in an upcoming meeting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, we&#8217;ll be watching for that report.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the video. The citizen&#8217;s comments start at approximately 1 minute in and last 3 minutes:<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;\" width=\"562\" height=\"343\" src=\"http:\/\/video.pcschools.us\/videos\/video\/3781\/embed\/?access_token=shr00000037815246423990666432536038059018317\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Tuesday&#8217;s Park City School Board meeting, a citizen who represents some members of the Park City High School PTO and Community Council spoke&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}