tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post6060717239526157219..comments2024-03-27T11:28:13.401-06:00Comments on Education Matters: Superintendent Vitti cannot serve two masters (rough draft)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1107550755163115303.post-1854520673825843152016-02-09T13:09:55.572-07:002016-02-09T13:09:55.572-07:00I wanted to to take a moment to clarify for both y...I wanted to to take a moment to clarify for both you and your readers that the 8th Annual Urban Education Symposium (UES) held last weekend was not a Jacksonville Public Education Fund event. In some of your recent posts, the Symposium appears to be characterized as an event primarily put on or sponsored by JPEF.<br /><br />This is not only an inaccurate representation of JPEF’s role in the event but also a disservice to the Jacksonville Community Engagement Group (CEG), who have been putting on this event since before JPEF existed.<br /> <br />While the UES is not a JPEF event, we are among a number of community organizations involved with supporting the Community Engagement Group’s efforts to bring the symposium together every year, primarily through providing a written data update that goes into the event’s program booklet. We promoted the event on our calendar (as you highlighted in a previous post) the same way we do for any relevant education event in Jacksonville. <br /><br />We continue to provide that service because we have a deep commitment to improving racial equity in our city’s education system, and believe that the CEG has been instrumental in keeping the challenges facing Jacksonville’s young black men front and center in the public discussion. As I said at our ONE by ONE Convention a few weeks ago, we know our city can’t succeed until all of our children succeed, and CEG’s focus on young black men is vital to this goal.<br /><br />For more information on the sponsors of this year’s UES and steering committee members, I encourage you to visit their website at http://www.urbanedsymposium.org/.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780962577622092714noreply@blogger.com