Outer Slobovia? Suburban Port-au-Prince? Newark? Detroit?
The Charleston County School Superintendent is patting herself on the back for hiring another of the EDUBLOB to facilitate "goals" and "satisfaction" surveys for the district, at the rate of about $80,000 per year of OPM* for the next three years. The Studer Group facilitated a survey. For $80,000 it used its canned computer programs to run responses to its prewritten one-size-fits-all surveys. Then it announced that the satisfaction index in CCSD is greater than four other similar districts which must remain nameless, that is, nebulous. See above.
Superintendent McGinley blames some principals for not giving parents proper access to satisfaction surveys.
Wait a minute. Why would principals be responsible when Studer is paid the $80,000?
And why should anyone consider the results valid when fewer than 15 percent of parents responded to the survey?
* Other People's Money
Monday, January 30, 2012
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This is another fake report from CCSD where the numbers are stacked to make the educrats look good. What about the progress reports on the kids who were transferred after the 2009 reconfiguration plan? CCSD closed 5 schools in the name of improving student achievement. After tracking the students for a year the results didn't look too good so CCSD stopped tracking them. The reports were buried. CCSD still takes credit for "reducing the number of failing schools". That's only half the story. The super won't admit almost nothing good came out of it for most of the students who were moved. The Studer Group's report is no better. And we keep paying these people for this stuff.
The on-line survey was of no value. The system failed to transmit my responses. After two trys with everything being erased, I gave up. If they expect parents to fill out a survey on-line the least they could do is use a system that works.
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