Here are some documents worth comment. My primary thoughts:
- WHO gets 8 weeks of vacation soon after starting with an organization?
- WHO gets to bankroll so many days and get paid for them upon leaving?
- Should the schedule of these employees seemingly be tied to the school calendar even though they do not work with the kids? (ie Summers off ?)
- These folks do work hard and long days when in the office. (ie late mtgs, etc)
- Salaries and benefits need to be competitive to get good employees.
RAS Executive Director of Business Services
RAS Cabinet Level Administrators
Ironic that this comes up right after the academic results posting. Remember: though I think RAS can do more, I lay the primary contribution for the poor test results mostly at the feet of poor parenting. Therefore the huge swing in results within the same district's schools.
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Put it this way: In every other business, employee (and manager) compensation is tied to profitability and productivity. Only in public education do we reward substandard performance the same as excellence, and public education has not seen a productivity improvement in 150 years. It still takes 1 teacher 12 years to create 20 high school graduates, and that number is actually falling, not increasing as it should. Just imagine if we increased class sizes up to 25. We could give every teacher a 20% raise, or at least justify the outrageous salaries they already receive. And getting rid of the poorest 20% of teachers would probably improve academic results. Go to year-round school, with staggered 9-month terms, and you could give teachers another 33% raise, though they would have to give up summer vacations, or let them choose to trade 1/4 of their salary to keep the vacation time.
J. Ewing
Maybe we need a "Administrate for America" program to fast track non-lodge members into jobs like the two RAS positions you mention.
If Lou Gerstner could come in and rescue IBM without any direct IT experience, why couldn't a George Steinbrenner run a school district?
I can't pass up this low ball...
He passed away....
Sorry for the poor humor...
Point taken though
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