George Bryan

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

Enrollment in Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools appears to have sharply declined based on early attendance numbers.
The district’s 10-day count was 47,093 students — a decrease of nearly 2,000 from last year’s average daily membership.
This won’t be the district’s official

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

@WinstonWatchman Any more details on crystal towers I can report to West End? We have lived happily together for many decades

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

@WinstonWatchman This explains the curious call from city staff to me yesterday about a property on Spring St except the staff said they didn’t know the address(!) this is on edge of our neighborhood.

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

@WinstonWatchman Kaplan, chair and Crowley, finance had no backbone to consolidate schools and went further- they approved additional expenses outside of the budget - RJR stadium stands as a memorial to devastating the public school system and staffs lives

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

@CityofWS Contact City Link which is closed today!!!!

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

@WinstonWatchman @thejournal @CityofWS Did she not know that women and men can go to Bethesda every day and be inside with showers and computer and mail access? I know there are efforts to increase women shelter and we ought to be advocating for this.

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

@WinstonWatchman Absolutely. Deanna as Chair neglected her duties and Crowley as finance chair during this period did not do hers but it was much more deliberate mismanagement as Deanna and Crowley knew, for example, with Reynolds Stadium they were outside of budget and overspending with subsid

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

@WinstonWatchman @CityofWS Legacy of Montgomery

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

@WinstonWatchman @CityofWS The West End is working to reopen the Bethesda center.

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

@CityofWS Hope this isn’t as disastrous as the last conversion! With new delivery to homes this change is outdated and confuses traffic. Certainly in tight financial times this is wasteful

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

@WinstonWatchman It’s time leadership of the BOE takes some responsibility and steps down or back. They do not have a reputation to negotiate out of a financial mess of their making.

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

@WinstonWatchman Unbelievable that one of the listed high priority needs is a $120,000 net for the stadium tax payers were not supposed to pay for- in truth over $10 million has been spent by us to put the stadium there if you look at what occurred to the Wiley gym.

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

@WinstonWatchman It is time for Ms Kaplan and Ms Crowley to step down or step away from chair and co chair. The County Commissioners can not negotiate with leadership that dropped their key responsibility and were involved with fudging funding instead of caring for the education of our children.

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

@WinstonWatchman @wsfcs And why didn’t we fire the CFO and superintendent?

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

@TriadBizJournal Great job Sam

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

The Forsyth Co population is thus:

•White (non-Hispanic): 54.4%
•Black or African American (non-Hispanic):24.5%
•Hispanic or Latino: 14.3%
•Asian: 2.4%
•Multiracial: 3.7%
•Native American/Other: 0.7%
•Pacific Islander: 0.06%

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

This graph from WSFC Schools shows what is happening to pupil enrollment Forsyth is down about 6,000 students in the last decade. We continue to build schools instead of strengthening and consolidating. As you look at the graph remember factors that impact include birthrates

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

Blue line is White, blue line Hispanic , yellow African-American

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

The School system is allocated state $ per pupil enrollment. Our County Commissioners need to address this as well

[George Bryan @GeorgeMBryan]

(Continuation)
Keep in mind birthrates, migration from other states, moving to private schools, state vouchers regardless of income next year, immigration from outside the US.