As long as Superintendent Nancy McGinley and her supporters on the CCSD School Board plan to "redesign" (i.e., close and consolidate) the CCSD schools, it's only right that we should move forward our own redesign plan for the administration of CCSD at 75 Calhoun.We can give our process the hoity-toity title of "Charleston Administrative Redesign Plan," or CARP. Perhaps McGinley might understand better if we called it "The Stakeholders Administrative Redesign Plan," but, as readers know, I hate the term "stakeholders" in place of "taxpayers"; anyway, I like my acronym.
McGinley has already made arrangements to import the "edublob" (beginning with Sue Robertson of the Planning Alliance and cohorts) and milk so-called statistics from her dog-and-pony-show process while carefully protecting herself from providing any direct answers to the public questions. How unique.
We need our own criteria obviously, so I will start.
[Note: Thanks to CCSD for setting these up for me]
Administrative Redesign Criteria Definitions
I. Administration as Center of the Community: Examines how administration utilizes the facility at 75 Calhoun as a primary resource for children in CCSD and examines other uses of the facility.A. Enrollment Decline – Tracks trends over the past 10 years in employees at 75 Calhoun versus enrollment decline in the district.
B. Minimal Administration Size – Indicates whether or not administrative office building meets or exceeds the minimum administrative requirements
C. Building Use – Reflects the other uses for the building outside of normal school
hours, for example – hobnobbing with Mayor Riley.
D. Transfers Out – Measures the number of administrative employees that transfer out of the district, especially those under suspicion of wrong-doing.
This process is fun. Anyone care to join in? The next category is Educational Value. We can have a field day with that one.
How about asking present school board candidates for their opinions on CARP?
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Measure "the number of administrative employees that transfer out of the district".
It might be just as telling to measure the number of otherwise qualified school principals and classroom teachers who have left the district out of frustration after having been harrased by CCSD administrators. You might just measure the number of Charleston County residents who are teaching in Berkeley and Dorcherster County public schools. For that matter, measure the overall number of real classroom teachers vs. the actual number of students assigned to each over the last 10 years. All are administrative decisions that effect classroom quality. This should be on the administration's report card and not those who are at the mercy of administrative decisions.
The fruits of a culture of "average" are not exactly the right ingredients for a dish being labeled as "excellence".
I like the idea of CARP. It sounds great and is long over due. When does it begin?
I'll give it a shot. What the hell.
Educational Value: provides a summary of the monetary value of each educational center for Bill Lewis and his real estate development cronies.
A) AYP: indicates whether Mayor Riley will be allowed to sell it off in one big chunk or will be forced to subdivide.
B) Absolute Rating: conveys the amount of kickbacks Bill Lewis will receive under the AYP (All You Poor People begone).
C)Improvement Rating: measures a school's progress towards students receiving high school diplomas who can actually read beyond a 4th grade level. Oops - wrong survey. Improvement rating measures an educational facility's progress towards meeting seismic code once they've met the AYP rating referenced above.
AYP--love it!
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