Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Studer Stonewalls CCSD Board Request

At the end of January Charleston County School Board of Trustee members made a request of Studer, the edublob company responsible for the parent-satisfaction study.

It was a simple request, hardly taking five minutes to answer: what are the four school districts that Studer used for comparison to CCSD?

Three weeks later and counting--no answer. Top secret, are they?

Add this one to the total weight of non-transparency in the district.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I read a lot about why critical information the public has paid for can't be made available. What I'm not reading is what the contractor and school district officaials are doing to make the public feel the information that was paid for is valid in the first place.

Babbie said...

to 1:22--they don't care if it's valid; the whole point of the study was to show that you're satisfied with how the district is run. Of course you are.

Anonymous said...

Oh. I forgot. Never mind.

Anonymous said...

It gets better my wife had to sit through a 2 hour session on the survey at her school. Then she had to take a survey on the survey! No joke!
Next they were told Studer will do another in April!
What is this costing.
They also were told that everything they mark is against the principal and that the superintendent wants it that way.
Blackmailed into giving a higher score even though they are out of paper and supplies. Let's face it what job costs its employees 500 or more in employee funds a month?
People have no clue how much teachers spend!