Reminder that the next school board meeting is Tuesday, May 24th. The agenda is online.
A couple things of note is that the new principals of both Clayton Valley and College Park will be appointed, the agenda lists the process they followed. Principal Selection
You can always look on the personnel changes to see who's moving around, retiring, taking a leave, etc. Mountain View's Principal is retiring, as is the Office Manager and Secretary at Ayers.
Does anyone know the details of replacing edusoft for a new Student Data and Assessment system totaling over 165,000 dollars? Just curious.
I also wonder.. if they approve minutes from previous meetings, why haven't here been minutes posted on line since March?
But in the good news category, new photos of all board members are finally up! :)
http://www.mdusd.org/boe/Pages/default.aspx
Interesting that the "evalutation" of the Supt and General Counsel is on the agenda two meetings in a row, especially after the Grand Jury report from a month ago. Thirty days until the response is due and nothing on the agenda yet. Since the Grand Jury specifically criticized Greg Rolen's performance on his "additional duties", I wonder how much he can participate in the response.
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EduSoft is awful. Anything has to be better.
ReplyDeleteWow, the interview process for the new SASS Support Administrator was pretty quick -- and no rumors about who applied. Unusual.
ReplyDeleteBased on Theresa Harrington's blog, I want to summarize this. SASS spends nearly $20,000 for a week long EL conference in July, drafts a plan, doesn’t share it with the Board, hires Norm Gold for $92,000 on December 14 because Rose Lock said the District has discussed “best practices” but not implemented them with fidelity, and Norm Gold concludes the district hasn’t implemented “best practices” consistently — gee whiz, same thing Rose Lock said. So we just spent $112,000 and still no concrete plan. And the district goal takes one year more than the state standard. Am I understanding this correctly ? Do you think the voters really believe education needs more tax money
ReplyDeleteSue Brothers . . . . King Lawrence's Lt. from West Sac. It was only a matter of time. Her job is to quelch the mutiny on the Bounty, and then she will likely force out Rose Lock.
ReplyDeleteInteresting as in googling around for her I found her mentioned on the TImes forum in thread about the "principal hiring snafu" last summer:
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July 27th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Mr. Lawrence is NOT a leader in any sense of the word. He almost completely destroyed his last District (WUSD) with many of the same antics. He (and his team) kept themselves busy running out the strongest leaders at the schools and concentrated power and money at the district office. His assistant superintendent of Ed services whom he brought over from his last district(Roseville), Sue Brothers alone had full-time 3 administrators at $140,000 each, 6 “teachers on special assignment” and 3 secretaries with well over one million in salaries/benefits in her empire and this in a smallish district. The results were a less then impressive 4 straight years of Program Improvement with almost no gains under his ‘leadership”!
That doesn't mean she's bad though does it? I'm hoping for a very strong leader at CVHS, and I hope we've found that. It sounds like she has strong credentials . Hoping it's exactly what CVHS needs.
ReplyDeleteWhy would she take a pay cut from West Sacramento to move down to the East Bay at a higher cost of living unless she has been promised the number two position in the district ?
ReplyDeleteDoctor J
@MDUSDParents: Patrick Nugent had strong educational credentials too. Check out Washington Union School District's STAR testing results to see if she made a difference. Then you can tell us if she has strong credentials.
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