When you’re considering an investment, one of the first points to consider is, what will this investment return? If the ROI is small, you look for other places to spend money. If it’s significant, you’re much more likely to spend money on it. Eli Broad of the Broad (rhymes with “road”) Foundation has made an inv [...]
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Eli Broad’s Return On Investmen...
When you’re considering an investment, one of the first points to consider is, what will this investment return? If the ROI is small, you look for other places to spend money. If it’s significant, you’re much more likely to spend money on it. Eli Broad of the Broad (rhymes with “road”) Foundation has made an inv [...]
Birney Takes Stand for Teachers
It’s late, and I have miles to go before I can sleep tonight, but this is too important to wait.
Thank you, Topper Birney, for taking a stand for our teachers (our real teachers). It’s about time that someone on the board did.
In case you missed it, tonight the board had yet another discussion about how to evaluate Dr. Wardynski. [...]
Cagey Teachers Who Put Students First
So there are two board meetings scheduled for tomorrow. At 8:00 am, the board will hold their annual reorganization meeting to determine the new officers for the coming year. Then at 8:15 am (the re-organization will only take 15 minutes, I suppose), the board will hold a called business meeting to discuss Temporary Agreements and the Amende [...]
Double Standards in Hiring: They Woul...
It would seem that the school system currently has two sets of hiring policies: one for senior administration and a second one for basically everyone else.
This is wrong.
Back in June when the board announced that they had reached a decision and agreement with Dr. Wardynski concerning his contract, I asked two of the board members (two of th [...]
Out of Touch With Reality
So the system has another new senior staff person on board. Dr. Barbara J. Cooper will be starting in October as the new Deputy Superintendent. She’s working out her notice in Aurora, Colorado and planning her move. Yes, she is officially now the third person Huntsville City Schools has hired from the Aurora School District. Dr. Wardyn [...]
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