Posted on 09/09/2015 1:06:29 PM PDT by MichCapCon
There was just one bad apple among the 171 members of the Detroit public school district’s leadership corps, if the district’s most recent evaluations of its principals, superintendents and administrators are accurate.
Despite being called “the nation’s lowest-performing urban school area” by Gov. Rick Snyder earlier this year, just one of its 171 managers was judged to be “ineffective.” The evaluations are for the 2013-14 school year, the most recent year available.
There were 96 officials given the highest rating of “highly effective;” 68 were rated “effective,” while six were deemed to be “minimally effective.” Plus the single “ineffective” administrator.
The Michigan Department of Education defines “administrators” as superintendents, assistant superintendents, administrators, principals and assistant principals.
Michelle Zdrodowski, the executive director of communications for Detroit Public Schools, said the district is reviewing its procedures.
"As a part of the comprehensive restructuring that is currently underway at Detroit Public Schools, the district is in the process of assessing all of its evaluation rubrics in order to ensure that there are clear, measurable metrics and appropriate levels of accountability in place," Zdrodowski said in an email.
Evaluations play an important role in pay decisions and in determining who gets laid off at Michigan’s public schools.
“We find it difficult to believe there is only one bad apple in that entire bushel of DPS administrators,” said Gary Naeyaert, executive director of the Great Lakes Education Project.
DPS administrators also awarded 79 percent of their teachers the highest effective rating in 2013-14. Of the district's 3,208 teachers, 2,542 were given the rating of “highly effective."
I thought Washington, DC, had the worst performing schools in the U.S.
Gosh, that must be one ineffective guy.
Whoever they ganged up on and targeted here is probably effective.
violence and aggression is encouraged from the git go...
so what do we expect from them?
I'd say that all of them could be taught manners, how to talk, how to socialize, how to work and finish a job....
all of our grandparents for the most part had little education but worked full productive lives....
Geez, one of the worst districts in the country?
Maybe fire everybody and start over? They could hardly do worse.
And probably pale.
To hear the elite it is the schools in fly over country that turn out solid conservatives that want to work.
It’s probably the only administrator trying to do something.
As in, extremely effectively ineffective?
That’s the way it goes, get rid of the good guy so everyone else looks good. Make up subjective standards to judge by.
“Maybe fire everybody and start over? They could hardly do worse.”
Nothing would change, even if the new group was letter perfect. The elephant in the classroom no one wants to mention. It is the students.
The average IQ in the United States is around 100. The average IQ in Mexico is 90. It is lower for those flooding in from Central America. And they can’t even speak English, and they don’t like white people.
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