Dr. Sutherland has reported that Boyd has withdrawn from consideration.
We expect that our elected leaders will do the job right and select a qualified candidate to lead our district.
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Friday, February 27, 2015
SUTHERLAND TO VOTE NO ON BOYD-WE APPLAUD HER!
She has more guts than anyone to stand up for her right and support of all of us. When it's wrong it's wrong. So much for those that have not stood up or said anything.. silence does not make things better. We know who wears the pants on the board...
To the rest of the board something to reflect on:
My vote on the new Superintendent appointment
by Ann Sutherland on 02/27/15
Here is my response to the Star-Telegram’s request that
we justify our positions on our upcoming vote for FWISD superintendent.
The
Fort Worth ISD board’s 9-0 vote to choose Dr. Boyd as our sole finalist resulted
from three interviews, one involving responses by 16 candidates to five questions via video and two subsequent rounds
of interviews. The first of the
subsequent rounds involved seven
candidates. At the close of these
interviews, we agreed on a further interview with three, selecting a fourth as a back-up in case one candidate
withdrew. However, even after two of the candidates
withdrew, the president declined to call the fourth person. Thus Dr. Boyd was the sole individual considered
at our final interview. In retrospect, this was unfortunate.
These
interviews were supported with statistical information provided by our search
firm which we were allowed to read only during our interview sessions. Although we could search online, we were not
allowed to talk to individuals in candidates’ districts.
Dr.
Boyd’s performance during this final interview was outstanding.
Unfortunately,
our post-interview examination of Dr. Boyd’s tenure in Santa Fe reveals great tension between
teachers and Dr. Boyd. There have been many
teacher resignations, including one of a nationally recognized teacher, as well
as at least one major walk-out by students in protest over his testing regimen. Anecdotal comments from the community also
report that he has treated teachers with unusual disrespect, including (a)
entering classrooms and criticizing teachers in front of students and (b)
during meetings with teacher representatives, banging on the table, talking on
his cell phone and making other disrespectful gestures.
Here
in Fort Worth, I
have watch the relations between school site personnel and the central office
deteriorate. I am very concerned. Although our board and administration are much more professional than what is being reported from Santa Fe, our failure to address the needs of
our school sites is a crucial cause of this decline. Thus I believe Dr. Boyd’s management pattern,
including his increased testing program, is directly counter to Fort Worth’s needs.
During
his final interview with us, I asked Dr. Boyd his opinion of FWISD’s heavy
testing regimen and the consequent need for many principal meetings. His response was that he did not see the need
for either a three-week testing cycle or lengthy principal meetings. As I indicated during our vote to announce
his candidacy, this was a crucial reason for my support. I now see that his management at Santa Fe is not too
different from what we are experiencing.
Our board’s #1 job is to restore a
positive relationship between our school site staff and our central office
staff. I will be voting “no” on any motion to employ Dr.
Boyd.
WORD ON THE STREET/ BOYD WILL BE HIRED
We don't know how true but the word is the board is set to vote for him. If anyone has any news let us know on comments.
As long as he knows that we need someone to listen and unite. If he does what he did in Santa Fe or Dallas Style.. it will be a failure. We are not Dallas, Santa Fe or whomever.
As long as he knows that we need someone to listen and unite. If he does what he did in Santa Fe or Dallas Style.. it will be a failure. We are not Dallas, Santa Fe or whomever.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
TEACHERS PLEASE READ- BOYD'S PAY FOR PERFORMANCE
We received very disconcerting news about practices left at Santa Fe Public Schools. Recall that we brought up the Broad Virus stuff where they come in, clean house, setup pay for performance, etc. and then Teach for America comes in. As we said check out Dallas ISD, same tactic.
So we received the pay scale for Santa Fe and it is set in Tiers, meaning teachers have to jump from Tier to Tier in order to receive that pay based on test scores, etc. If you study that and read Dallas ISDs system they are compatible.
Teachers there is no incentive within the pay, it looks good and they sell it well but believe us when we say it is a fluke because it is bent on saving money on the backs of you. If you think testing is bad now.. just wait until this type of system is implemented. Recall Dallas kiddos testing in Art, Music and PE, read the news. We have said from the first time we heard of Boyd, we don't need that style of leadership. We need something created by all of us.. not a copy of what others have done.
Be forewarned.
Santa FE Teacher Pay
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B58nQYNsVgwwMHd5NW8tSnc1OFE/view?usp=sharing
Dallas Plan- skim through it and see how teachers are being evaluated and paid.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B58nQYNsVgwwVDFtZWlSLW8yaEE/view?usp=sharing
Dallas News Article- students staying after school for art tutoring to get ready for semester exam
http://educationblog.dallasnews.com/2015/01/dallas-isd-amends-new-teacher-evaluation-eliminates-some-exams-for-elementary-students.html/
What's on the tests that elementary students had to take so teachers can be graded on achievement
http://educationblog.dallasnews.com/2014/12/whats-on-the-dallas-isd-exams-for-elementary-school-art-band-and-pe.html/
So we received the pay scale for Santa Fe and it is set in Tiers, meaning teachers have to jump from Tier to Tier in order to receive that pay based on test scores, etc. If you study that and read Dallas ISDs system they are compatible.
Teachers there is no incentive within the pay, it looks good and they sell it well but believe us when we say it is a fluke because it is bent on saving money on the backs of you. If you think testing is bad now.. just wait until this type of system is implemented. Recall Dallas kiddos testing in Art, Music and PE, read the news. We have said from the first time we heard of Boyd, we don't need that style of leadership. We need something created by all of us.. not a copy of what others have done.
Be forewarned.
Santa FE Teacher Pay
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B58nQYNsVgwwMHd5NW8tSnc1OFE/view?usp=sharing
Dallas Plan- skim through it and see how teachers are being evaluated and paid.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B58nQYNsVgwwVDFtZWlSLW8yaEE/view?usp=sharing
Dallas News Article- students staying after school for art tutoring to get ready for semester exam
http://educationblog.dallasnews.com/2015/01/dallas-isd-amends-new-teacher-evaluation-eliminates-some-exams-for-elementary-students.html/
What's on the tests that elementary students had to take so teachers can be graded on achievement
http://educationblog.dallasnews.com/2014/12/whats-on-the-dallas-isd-exams-for-elementary-school-art-band-and-pe.html/
BLAST FROM THE PAST FOR TOBI JACKSON
A reader of this blog happened to stumble upon the 2010 campaign time when Tobi and Sutherland were running for school board.
What caught our eye is what Tobi was using at the time to get Jean McClung out. Which is ironic to say the least. Seems that things are still the same and makes us think that we should move her out as well.
What do you think?
Challengers question Fort Worth school district's performance
Posted Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010
By EVA-MARIE AYALA
eayala@star-telegram.com
FORT WORTH -- Two challengers have filed against school trustees, saying they are concerned about the district's academic and financial performance.
Tobi Jackson filed to run against longtime Trustee Jean McClung, who has represented parts of east Fort Worth for 20 years, for the District 2 seat. Ann Sutherland is challenging Chris Hatch, who has held his District 6 seat, representing the city's southwest side, since 2004.
Four school board members are up for re-election on the May 8 ballot.
District 2
Jackson, 49, a math and science instructor at the ATI Career Training Center, said she decided to run for the board because she was concerned about the quality of education, particularly on the east side.
She noted that Eastern Hills High and Meadowbrook Middle schools have been rated academically unacceptable by the state in recent years. Meadowbrook was rated academically acceptable in 2009.
"I look at the schools on my side of town, and they don't look like the schools that they were," said Jackson, who attended those schools. "I think it's time for a fresh face, fresh approaches and new leadership."
McClung, a community volunteer, said the ratings don't tell the whole story. For example, Eastern Hills Principal Dian Korman came out of retirement to lead that school again, she said.
"She is on the right path to bring it back," McClung said. "I don't think anyone realizes how hard it is for an urban school district to really be where they need to be when you have a low socio-economic area with kids being transient all the time."
McClung also credits new curriculum in Fort Worth for resulting in gains districtwide.
District 6
Sutherland said she is concerned about the district's finances, particularly the $1.5 million the district overpaid employees and former employees as a result of glitches in a payroll system conversion. About $1.3 million has been recovered.
Sutherland, 70, a former educator and budget analyst who spent most of her career in California, said she wants to serve on the board to help it get a hold on financial issues. She said she is concerned that an internal audit of the payroll system was not adequate to determine what went wrong and whether that was all the money that was overpaid.
"It's obvious that they need to be looking at it more closely," she said. By not supporting an external audit, Hatch "is not doing his job as the person responsible for overseeing the audit committee of the district."
At its last meeting, the board did vote to seek requests for proposals to determine how much external audits would cost -- one to look at previous payrolls and one to look at the payroll process.
Hatch, 63, a certified public accountant who is chairman of the district's audit committee, supported seeking the proposals but said an external audit would likely cost too much and provide no new information. The internal audit completed in January found flaws in the payroll process that district officials said have been fixed or are being corrected.
"We made every reasonable effort to implement this and get people trained and as the months go on, there are no more issues," Hatch said.
Redistricting
The district declared a state of financial emergency for the second year in a row last week after being forced to lay off dozens of employees last year.
But despite financial challenges, Hatch said Fort Worth has been able to see the number of schools rated academically recognized and exemplary grow each year.
He also noted that the district's bond program is about $38 million under budget, largely because of favorable market prices for construction.
"I think we've done an excellent job," Hatch said of the district's finances.
Trustees Christene Moss of District 3, on the east side, and Judy Needham of District 5, on the west side, are unopposed so far.
The seats are generally held for four years, but the district plans to redraw its trustee boundaries in 2012 as it changes the configuration of the board.
Currently eight board members are elected from geographic locations and a ninth is elected as president by voters districtwide. The school board is the only one in the state to use that system.
The board will move to nine geographic boundaries and members will elect a president from among themselves.
EVA-MARIE AYALA, 817-390-7700
Looking for comments?
Don't forget this when she was at the ATI Center...
What caught our eye is what Tobi was using at the time to get Jean McClung out. Which is ironic to say the least. Seems that things are still the same and makes us think that we should move her out as well.
What do you think?
Challengers question Fort Worth school district's performance
Posted Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010
By EVA-MARIE AYALA
eayala@star-telegram.com
FORT WORTH -- Two challengers have filed against school trustees, saying they are concerned about the district's academic and financial performance.
Tobi Jackson filed to run against longtime Trustee Jean McClung, who has represented parts of east Fort Worth for 20 years, for the District 2 seat. Ann Sutherland is challenging Chris Hatch, who has held his District 6 seat, representing the city's southwest side, since 2004.
Four school board members are up for re-election on the May 8 ballot.
District 2
Jackson, 49, a math and science instructor at the ATI Career Training Center, said she decided to run for the board because she was concerned about the quality of education, particularly on the east side.
She noted that Eastern Hills High and Meadowbrook Middle schools have been rated academically unacceptable by the state in recent years. Meadowbrook was rated academically acceptable in 2009.
"I look at the schools on my side of town, and they don't look like the schools that they were," said Jackson, who attended those schools. "I think it's time for a fresh face, fresh approaches and new leadership."
McClung, a community volunteer, said the ratings don't tell the whole story. For example, Eastern Hills Principal Dian Korman came out of retirement to lead that school again, she said.
"She is on the right path to bring it back," McClung said. "I don't think anyone realizes how hard it is for an urban school district to really be where they need to be when you have a low socio-economic area with kids being transient all the time."
McClung also credits new curriculum in Fort Worth for resulting in gains districtwide.
District 6
Sutherland said she is concerned about the district's finances, particularly the $1.5 million the district overpaid employees and former employees as a result of glitches in a payroll system conversion. About $1.3 million has been recovered.
Sutherland, 70, a former educator and budget analyst who spent most of her career in California, said she wants to serve on the board to help it get a hold on financial issues. She said she is concerned that an internal audit of the payroll system was not adequate to determine what went wrong and whether that was all the money that was overpaid.
"It's obvious that they need to be looking at it more closely," she said. By not supporting an external audit, Hatch "is not doing his job as the person responsible for overseeing the audit committee of the district."
At its last meeting, the board did vote to seek requests for proposals to determine how much external audits would cost -- one to look at previous payrolls and one to look at the payroll process.
Hatch, 63, a certified public accountant who is chairman of the district's audit committee, supported seeking the proposals but said an external audit would likely cost too much and provide no new information. The internal audit completed in January found flaws in the payroll process that district officials said have been fixed or are being corrected.
"We made every reasonable effort to implement this and get people trained and as the months go on, there are no more issues," Hatch said.
Redistricting
The district declared a state of financial emergency for the second year in a row last week after being forced to lay off dozens of employees last year.
But despite financial challenges, Hatch said Fort Worth has been able to see the number of schools rated academically recognized and exemplary grow each year.
He also noted that the district's bond program is about $38 million under budget, largely because of favorable market prices for construction.
"I think we've done an excellent job," Hatch said of the district's finances.
Trustees Christene Moss of District 3, on the east side, and Judy Needham of District 5, on the west side, are unopposed so far.
The seats are generally held for four years, but the district plans to redraw its trustee boundaries in 2012 as it changes the configuration of the board.
Currently eight board members are elected from geographic locations and a ninth is elected as president by voters districtwide. The school board is the only one in the state to use that system.
The board will move to nine geographic boundaries and members will elect a president from among themselves.
EVA-MARIE AYALA, 817-390-7700
Looking for comments?
Don't forget this when she was at the ATI Center...
Sunday, February 22, 2015
DID TCU OPEN A FORT WORTH ISD CAMPUS?
We have been getting messages and inquiries into how TCU has suddenly built a TCU- Fort Worth ISD Campus right here in our city.
It started with Melodie or Melonie Johnson, who now is a Superintendent Trainer or something to that effect. I guess you can make up something just to try and have influence over the district.
Let's take in Cinto Ramos who now has a position there as adjunct professor... It helps to be a public figure to get cozy gigs.
Now enters Ashley Paz who has been accepted to the TCU MBA Program and guess who congratulates her? Well Godmother Johnson. The big question for us now is how she got into an MBA when there is apparent word she has no Bachelor's degree. We have looked around to find something but all she has on her job page is that she was working while attending a university in Georgia. Her board page does not list educational background. So how does this work if you have no Bachelor's, does TCU accept you?
Since it seems that entry into TCU is easier than before then I am sure they are helping our students do the same. Can our students receive the same treatment our board members get and possibly their children will get? Let's get our application ready and ride the gravy train!!
Who is ready to go to TCU? THE CLUELESS UNIVERSITY
It started with Melodie or Melonie Johnson, who now is a Superintendent Trainer or something to that effect. I guess you can make up something just to try and have influence over the district.
Let's take in Cinto Ramos who now has a position there as adjunct professor... It helps to be a public figure to get cozy gigs.
Now enters Ashley Paz who has been accepted to the TCU MBA Program and guess who congratulates her? Well Godmother Johnson. The big question for us now is how she got into an MBA when there is apparent word she has no Bachelor's degree. We have looked around to find something but all she has on her job page is that she was working while attending a university in Georgia. Her board page does not list educational background. So how does this work if you have no Bachelor's, does TCU accept you?
Since it seems that entry into TCU is easier than before then I am sure they are helping our students do the same. Can our students receive the same treatment our board members get and possibly their children will get? Let's get our application ready and ride the gravy train!!
Who is ready to go to TCU? THE CLUELESS UNIVERSITY
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