chief equity officer job requirements & salary

[Anonymous]

^ Vote the school board out. Only way to show that this isn’t working. Ranting on this forum doesn’t do much

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How does one apply to become an equity officer? Is there a job description somewhere? At $232k, it appears the position pays more than what a teacher can ever make with a PhD

https://govsalaries.com/king-nardos-e-143711008

The max an fcps teacher with Phd can ever earn is $135k

https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/pdf/FY23-teacher-260-day.pdf

That’s what David Graeber would call a bullshit job.

[Anonymous]

As someone who has served at several levels of FCPS, I can’t name a single contribution of the DEI or equity chief that has made things better for students or schools, and I’d be so hard pressed to justify these salaries even if I had a gun pointed at my head.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened to Lisa williams? She wasn’t there long at all.

"Williams first arrived in Fairfax County as chief equity officer in December 2020 after a long career at Baltimore County Public Schools, where students have struggled academically for years. She stayed on the job only until January 2022, signing controversial multi-million dollar contracts with outside consultants, including Leadership Academy, which designed an “Anti-Racism, Anti-Bias Curriculum Policy Survey” that the school district sent parents in spring 2021. Her departure was quietly announced and left parents with many questions about why she left so suddenly."

"On August 5, a Fairfax County Public Schools official quietly signed a contract with the school district’s recently-departed chief equity officer, Lisa Williams, to pay her at least $56,000 – or the equivalent of a new teacher’s annual salary – for “strategic coaching” and “guidance” of school board members on “issues related to organizational transformation” that “enhances engagement, coaching and leadership.”

"Under the new contract with Williams, Fairfax County Public Schools will pay her in three ways: first, she will get $4,000 per month for 11 months between August 2022 and June 2023; secondly, she will be paid $12,000 for three “retreat-like gatherings,” at a rate of $4,000 per session, between August 2022 and December 2023; finally, she will receive $250 per hour for other work she does between August 2022 and December 2023 “as requested by the Superintendent,” Michelle Reid. "

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/fcps-to-pay-former-equity-officer-56-000-for-transformative-coaching/article_2a674cda-5080-11ed-a330-3b9b04b6b9b0.html

Authored by Asra Nomani. AKA Always RWNJ.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened to Lisa williams? She wasn’t there long at all.

"Williams first arrived in Fairfax County as chief equity officer in December 2020 after a long career at Baltimore County Public Schools, where students have struggled academically for years. She stayed on the job only until January 2022, signing controversial multi-million dollar contracts with outside consultants, including Leadership Academy, which designed an “Anti-Racism, Anti-Bias Curriculum Policy Survey” that the school district sent parents in spring 2021. Her departure was quietly announced and left parents with many questions about why she left so suddenly."

"On August 5, a Fairfax County Public Schools official quietly signed a contract with the school district’s recently-departed chief equity officer, Lisa Williams, to pay her at least $56,000 – or the equivalent of a new teacher’s annual salary – for “strategic coaching” and “guidance” of school board members on “issues related to organizational transformation” that “enhances engagement, coaching and leadership.”

"Under the new contract with Williams, Fairfax County Public Schools will pay her in three ways: first, she will get $4,000 per month for 11 months between August 2022 and June 2023; secondly, she will be paid $12,000 for three “retreat-like gatherings,” at a rate of $4,000 per session, between August 2022 and December 2023; finally, she will receive $250 per hour for other work she does between August 2022 and December 2023 “as requested by the Superintendent,” Michelle Reid. "

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/fcps-to-pay-former-equity-officer-56-000-for-transformative-coaching/article_2a674cda-5080-11ed-a330-3b9b04b6b9b0.html

Doesn't matter who paid the FOIA fees and reported the information. Re-read the above and direct your outrage at selective, noncompete awarded contracts by Reid, and the equity admins without any quantifiable goals and accomplishments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As someone who has served at several levels of FCPS, I can’t name a single contribution of the DEI or equity chief that has made things better for students or schools, and I’d be so hard pressed to justify these salaries even if I had a gun pointed at my head.

Ouch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As someone who has served at several levels of FCPS, I can’t name a single contribution of the DEI or equity chief that has made things better for students or schools, and I’d be so hard pressed to justify these salaries even if I had a gun pointed at my head.

Ouch.

Yep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened to Lisa williams? She wasn’t there long at all.

"Williams first arrived in Fairfax County as chief equity officer in December 2020 after a long career at Baltimore County Public Schools, where students have struggled academically for years. She stayed on the job only until January 2022, signing controversial multi-million dollar contracts with outside consultants, including Leadership Academy, which designed an “Anti-Racism, Anti-Bias Curriculum Policy Survey” that the school district sent parents in spring 2021. Her departure was quietly announced and left parents with many questions about why she left so suddenly."

"On August 5, a Fairfax County Public Schools official quietly signed a contract with the school district’s recently-departed chief equity officer, Lisa Williams, to pay her at least $56,000 – or the equivalent of a new teacher’s annual salary – for “strategic coaching” and “guidance” of school board members on “issues related to organizational transformation” that “enhances engagement, coaching and leadership.”

"Under the new contract with Williams, Fairfax County Public Schools will pay her in three ways: first, she will get $4,000 per month for 11 months between August 2022 and June 2023; secondly, she will be paid $12,000 for three “retreat-like gatherings,” at a rate of $4,000 per session, between August 2022 and December 2023; finally, she will receive $250 per hour for other work she does between August 2022 and December 2023 “as requested by the Superintendent,” Michelle Reid. "

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/fcps-to-pay-former-equity-officer-56-000-for-transformative-coaching/article_2a674cda-5080-11ed-a330-3b9b04b6b9b0.html

Authored by Asra Nomani. AKA Always RWNJ.

Good for Asra Nomani. Nothing she wrote was incorrect - you simply can’t stand the fact that she exposed this nonsense for the sham it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What happened to Lisa williams? She wasn’t there long at all.

"Williams first arrived in Fairfax County as chief equity officer in December 2020 after a long career at Baltimore County Public Schools, where students have struggled academically for years. She stayed on the job only until January 2022, signing controversial multi-million dollar contracts with outside consultants, including Leadership Academy, which designed an “Anti-Racism, Anti-Bias Curriculum Policy Survey” that the school district sent parents in spring 2021. Her departure was quietly announced and left parents with many questions about why she left so suddenly."

"On August 5, a Fairfax County Public Schools official quietly signed a contract with the school district’s recently-departed chief equity officer, Lisa Williams, to pay her at least $56,000 – or the equivalent of a new teacher’s annual salary – for “strategic coaching” and “guidance” of school board members on “issues related to organizational transformation” that “enhances engagement, coaching and leadership.”

"Under the new contract with Williams, Fairfax County Public Schools will pay her in three ways: first, she will get $4,000 per month for 11 months between August 2022 and June 2023; secondly, she will be paid $12,000 for three “retreat-like gatherings,” at a rate of $4,000 per session, between August 2022 and December 2023; finally, she will receive $250 per hour for other work she does between August 2022 and December 2023 “as requested by the Superintendent,” Michelle Reid. "

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/fcps-to-pay-former-equity-officer-56-000-for-transformative-coaching/article_2a674cda-5080-11ed-a330-3b9b04b6b9b0.html

Authored by Asra Nomani. AKA Always RWNJ.

What was written that is incorrect?

You can be mad all you want. Where is the lie?

[Anonymous]

All of you are idiots. This is an insurance policy -- not a real job.

Here's the deal. When and I mean FCPS runs into legal issues due to engaging in discriminatory behavior, they can point to this position as evidence that whatever employee that engaged in the illegal activity was a bad actor and get out of a large systemic based lawsuit.

It's pretty simple. They do this for SPED and ESOL as well, FWIW. Any area with legal liability, this is a normal way of mitigating risk. It's why every large organization has these types of position. They don't care about diversity or groups that are at risk of being marginalized. They are trying to save money folks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of you are idiots. This is an insurance policy -- not a real job.

Here's the deal. When and I mean FCPS runs into legal issues due to engaging in discriminatory behavior, they can point to this position as evidence that whatever employee that engaged in the illegal activity was a bad actor and get out of a large systemic based lawsuit.

It's pretty simple. They do this for SPED and ESOL as well, FWIW. Any area with legal liability, this is a normal way of mitigating risk. It's why every large organization has these types of position. They don't care about diversity or groups that are at risk of being marginalized. They are trying to save money folks.

It was the US Dept of Education Office for Civil Rights that compelled FCPS to create this job, not their insurance policy or company.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of you are idiots. This is an insurance policy -- not a real job.

Here's the deal. When and I mean FCPS runs into legal issues due to engaging in discriminatory behavior, they can point to this position as evidence that whatever employee that engaged in the illegal activity was a bad actor and get out of a large systemic based lawsuit.

It's pretty simple. They do this for SPED and ESOL as well, FWIW. Any area with legal liability, this is a normal way of mitigating risk. It's why every large organization has these types of position. They don't care about diversity or groups that are at risk of being marginalized. They are trying to save money folks.

It was the US Dept of Education Office for Civil Rights that compelled FCPS to create this job, not their insurance policy or company.

Wrong again. Inevitably when there is a lawsuit alleging discrimination like disability discrimination this position is evidence to support that there is no basis to pursue systemic claims or punitive damages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of you are idiots. This is an insurance policy -- not a real job.

Here's the deal. When and I mean FCPS runs into legal issues due to engaging in discriminatory behavior, they can point to this position as evidence that whatever employee that engaged in the illegal activity was a bad actor and get out of a large systemic based lawsuit.

It's pretty simple. They do this for SPED and ESOL as well, FWIW. Any area with legal liability, this is a normal way of mitigating risk. It's why every large organization has these types of position. They don't care about diversity or groups that are at risk of being marginalized. They are trying to save money folks.

It was the US Dept of Education Office for Civil Rights that compelled FCPS to create this job, not their insurance policy or company.

Wrong again. Inevitably when there is a lawsuit alleging discrimination like disability discrimination this position is evidence to support that there is no basis to pursue systemic claims or punitive damages.

Here is one of OCR ‘s agreements with FCPS to create this role.
https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/investigations/more/11215901-b.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of you are idiots. This is an insurance policy -- not a real job.

Here's the deal. When and I mean FCPS runs into legal issues due to engaging in discriminatory behavior, they can point to this position as evidence that whatever employee that engaged in the illegal activity was a bad actor and get out of a large systemic based lawsuit.

It's pretty simple. They do this for SPED and ESOL as well, FWIW. Any area with legal liability, this is a normal way of mitigating risk. It's why every large organization has these types of position. They don't care about diversity or groups that are at risk of being marginalized. They are trying to save money folks.

It was the US Dept of Education Office for Civil Rights that compelled FCPS to create this job, not their insurance policy or company.

Wrong again. Inevitably when there is a lawsuit alleging discrimination like disability discrimination this position is evidence to support that there is no basis to pursue systemic claims or punitive damages.

Here is one of OCR ‘s agreements with FCPS to create this role.
https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/investigations/more/11215901-b.pdf

Again - this is the result of being sued by the DOE due to engaging in discrimination. This settlement was essentially a way to buy out of a systemic lawsuit that would be millions in damages.

I will explain this to the slow crowd. This settlement is essentially a get out of jail free card. Because if the county just chose to pay money to DOE, they would have inevitably (1) screwed up and hired someone among the thousands of employees who engaged in discrimination and (2) have this prior bad act to form evidence of a systemic problems without any structural changes (they just pay out) and (3) put a pricing "floor" for any future settlements.

It's a common strategy to agree to some sort of structural change like this position to avoid the implication of systemic problems when inevitably future claims arise.

You see this all.the.time in law enforcement cases.

What's is the most interesting is the insurance companies that counties buy policies from to defend against liability cases also require this sort of settlement tool (pay this person money to keep the appearance that problems are not systemic). Sometimes districts will lose their ability to insure if they DON'T DO THIS.

Anyway, it's more complicated than people think.

But again, we can always just say, re-segregate the schools! Vouchers for all! Vote out the woke! Bring God back in the schools!

That works, it seems lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of you are idiots. This is an insurance policy -- not a real job.

Here's the deal. When and I mean FCPS runs into legal issues due to engaging in discriminatory behavior, they can point to this position as evidence that whatever employee that engaged in the illegal activity was a bad actor and get out of a large systemic based lawsuit.

It's pretty simple. They do this for SPED and ESOL as well, FWIW. Any area with legal liability, this is a normal way of mitigating risk. It's why every large organization has these types of position. They don't care about diversity or groups that are at risk of being marginalized. They are trying to save money folks.

If it is "not a real job" then they need to pay the person "not a real job rates"

Then they can split the dei job salary between a couple of custodians or special ed teachers who are actually performing "real jobs"