http://gothamschools.org/2009/01/20/school-support-organizations-will-be-graded-too-%e2%80%94-and-publicly/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://gothamschools.org/2009/01/20/school-support-organizations-will-be-graded-too-%e2%80%94-and-publicly/comment-page-1/#comment-17415 Pogue Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:44:02 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=7791#comment-17415 School support organizations? HAH! They have No Vision because of their Lack of Knowledge and are Empowering nothing but their own coffers. Could someone please explain what these organizations actually do? School support organizations? HAH! They have No Vision because of their Lack of Knowledge and are Empowering nothing but their own coffers. Could someone please explain what these organizations actually do?

]]> http://gothamschools.org/2009/01/20/school-support-organizations-will-be-graded-too-%e2%80%94-and-publicly/comment-page-1/#comment-17238 Ellen McHugh Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:27:30 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=7791#comment-17238 This is the oddest thing I have read or heard in a while. "Nadelstern, who recently took over the responsibility of overseeing all support organizations, said that he does not plan to shut down any organizations based on their evaluations. “Once we publish what the results are, if there are schools that wish to affiliate, we don’t want to be in a position where we’re telling princpals you can’t,” Nadelstern said. “We just want them to make an informed decision.” If you evaluate the support organization and it is not up to snuff, wouldn't you either fix it or end it? If we evaluate schools and close them based on a poor or failing evaluation, if we evaluate students and pass or fail them based on the evaluations, if we evaluate teachers and rate them as satisfactory or not, if we evaluate politicians and decide about how we will vote on their record, why wouldn't we act in the same manner with support organizations? Weird. This is the oddest thing I have read or heard in a while. “Nadelstern, who recently took over the responsibility of overseeing all support organizations, said that he does not plan to shut down any organizations based on their evaluations. “Once we publish what the results are, if there are schools that wish to affiliate, we don’t want to be in a position where we’re telling princpals you can’t,” Nadelstern said. “We just want them to make an informed decision.”
If you evaluate the support organization and it is not up to snuff, wouldn’t you either fix it or end it? If we evaluate schools and close them based on a poor or failing evaluation, if we evaluate students and pass or fail them based on the evaluations, if we evaluate teachers and rate them as satisfactory or not, if we evaluate politicians and decide about how we will vote on their record, why wouldn’t we act in the same manner with support organizations?
Weird.

]]> http://gothamschools.org/2009/01/20/school-support-organizations-will-be-graded-too-%e2%80%94-and-publicly/comment-page-1/#comment-16898 Smith Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:54:38 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=7791#comment-16898 This "accountability" process gets sillier with each new announcement. Shouldn't the fact that these grades will be thoroughly unscientific give at least a moment's pause to these crazies at the DOE? It's funny to see lawyers trying to develop a process that they would never use in their own profession in order to force it on a profession they know nothing about. Could you imagine them coming up with grades for law firms and then recommending that corporations choose their counsel based on the grade? If principals want to know which organization to choose they can pick up the phone, ask around, and find out who's good. Just like they do in the legal world. This “accountability” process gets sillier with each new announcement. Shouldn’t the fact that these grades will be thoroughly unscientific give at least a moment’s pause to these crazies at the DOE? It’s funny to see lawyers trying to develop a process that they would never use in their own profession in order to force it on a profession they know nothing about. Could you imagine them coming up with grades for law firms and then recommending that corporations choose their counsel based on the grade? If principals want to know which organization to choose they can pick up the phone, ask around, and find out who’s good. Just like they do in the legal world.

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