CARP: CCSD Redesign as Educational Value

Moving forward with the second installment of our redesign plan for CCSD administration at 75 Calhoun, we come to our second set of criteria definitions (again, thanks to CCSD for setting the format for us!):

Administrative Redesign Criteria Definitions

II. Educational Value: Summarizes academic achievement in CCSD under current administration

A. Adequate Yearly Progress – Does the district meet taxpayers' expectations regarding transparency in spending (cost-effectiveness of educational gimmicks, excuse me, innovations) and answering direct questions regarding educational programs in public forums as well as supporting new charter schools; indicates if pace of progress will ever produce students who on average meet state academic standards

B. Absolute Rating – The value of administrative results compared with similar-size districts in regard to administrative costs, including the superintendent's salary in relation to comparable districts.

C. Improvement Rating – Measures administration's progress since selection of current superintendent in regard to access to magnet programs, funding of magnet schools, and transparency in lottery results for magnet programs.

Care to add any others?

CARP: CCSD Redesign We Can Believe In

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?