chief equity officer job requirements & salary

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Nardos King’s salary bothers you remember than FCPS was willing to pay Ibram Kendi more for an hour-long canned speech of “anti-racist” babble than they’ll pay her in a month.

So little stewardship of taxpayer money, in a system with declining academics and overcrowded buildings. The grift is real.

You make a good point. And provide a good argument that rather than hiring. first speakers is at most a fancy bandaid

Or perhaps it was to orient people to the need for policy and practice change. None the less guest speakers are expensive. All guest speakers of renown are expensive.

But hiring King represents a real commitment and definitive step in the right direction. She is also a bargain in as you have to expressed.

Thanks for your perspective and you are are correct hiring someone to do the really important job of focusing on real change is in balance a positive and is most certainly a step in the right direction and hiring a person to this full time position, rather than the occasional guest speaker, is a sound fiscal move.

Thanks for the corollary.

Sounds like Nardos King's response. :D

No, actually more like that of the Chief Academic Officer. He is much more highly compensated, a man, and not a POC, so this means his opinion, presence, and authority are absolute thus above criticism of any sort. Case closed. Welcome, Dr. King! May your good works elevate us all!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Nardos King’s salary bothers you remember than FCPS was willing to pay Ibram Kendi more for an hour-long canned speech of “anti-racist” babble than they’ll pay her in a month.

So little stewardship of taxpayer money, in a system with declining academics and overcrowded buildings. The grift is real.

You make a good point. And provide a good argument that rather than hiring. first speakers is at most a fancy bandaid

Or perhaps it was to orient people to the need for policy and practice change. None the less guest speakers are expensive. All guest speakers of renown are expensive.

But hiring King represents a real commitment and definitive step in the right direction. She is also a bargain in as you have to expressed.

Thanks for your perspective and you are are correct hiring someone to do the really important job of focusing on real change is in balance a positive and is most certainly a step in the right direction and hiring a person to this full time position, rather than the occasional guest speaker, is a sound fiscal move.

Thanks for the corollary.

Sounds like Nardos King's response. :D

Focus on academics and they won’t have to pay grifters to paper over poor performance.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Our ES has 2 Assistant principals. That’s $300K in waste in one ES.

One ES has 3 principals total. That’s $500K in salaries just in the front office. Such redundancy. This is what people really need to be complaining about. This is tax payer money not going to direct education.

What an ignorant quote. Assistant Principals perform the vital work of maintaining discipline, supervision and at the Elementary level handling all testing. They often divide responsibilities by grade level or content so they are not redundant positions. They hire the teachers and evaluate them. Principals are responsible for the big picture and budget items but the AP's do a lot of the day to day work that families would see. If you have kids in the schools, you know the AP's are the ones that are calling with the issues and handling your emails and requests. They also work 11-12 month contracts as opposed to the 10 month teacher contracts which often accounts for the salary difference.

The amount of AP's is dictated by the size of the population of the school. so each AP is responsible for dealing with hundreds of families and dozens of teachers. And they are not new positions, they have been around since I attended FCPS in the 80's. But people couldn't spout off nonsense about them on anonymous forums and call their work "wastes" in the past.

So it sounds like you are saying the true wastes of tax dollars are the principals. Sounds good to me. We could be saving even more money since big-picture thinkers are great and all, but isn't that what the external executive team is charged with? Regardless, it sounds like there is waste and inefficiency there, the Principal should be doing more of these tasks that you describe. You have described to me a figurehead, the Principal, or as you have described, Queen or King of the School really shouldn't be a thing. Not during this time when the quality of our children's educations is struggling to such a large degree.

As so many have described our schools are in such bad shape, so much so, that you knock the hiring of a salaried executive employee, who serves the entire school system as being wasteful. It's one salary. There are hundreds of redundancies to be eliminated.

We are in dire straights, the sky is falling, our schools are failing, our infrastructure is crumbling, and at the top, of each of these individual wastelands sits a little King and or Queen consuming a lion's share of the fat, and cake, as their castles (school buildings) crumble around, with multiple APs to do what should/could be their jobs. If you must keep your highly paid Principals, then why do we have APs getting paid to do admin work? Or what sounds like traffic cop work? Not to mention the front offices full of desk admins. The admins have admins and admins. Why, in the age of technology, are there so many admin positions? This is asinine. The waste is there, it's right there. Such redundancy in what is essentially middle management.

I'm with you kill the goose already and start with the bloated admin that exists in the actual schools themselves, shrink the front office footprint, add a few classrooms while you are at it, expand the lunchroom and or the playgrounds, and then when you are finished there move on to the admin that is Gatehouse if you must. But seems to me there are 28 big-picture thinkers who are charged with overseeing this mess, maybe we should make it 29 and hire a Chief Efficiency and Anti-Waste Expert. To start getting rid of all of the essentially as you have described highly compensated clerical and traffic cop positions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Our ES has 2 Assistant principals. That’s $300K in waste in one ES.

One ES has 3 principals total. That’s $500K in salaries just in the front office. Such redundancy. This is what people really need to be complaining about. This is tax payer money not going to direct education.

What an ignorant quote. Assistant Principals perform the vital work of maintaining discipline, supervision and at the Elementary level handling all testing. They often divide responsibilities by grade level or content so they are not redundant positions. They hire the teachers and evaluate them. Principals are responsible for the big picture and budget items but the AP's do a lot of the day to day work that families would see. If you have kids in the schools, you know the AP's are the ones that are calling with the issues and handling your emails and requests. They also work 11-12 month contracts as opposed to the 10 month teacher contracts which often accounts for the salary difference.

The amount of AP's is dictated by the size of the population of the school. so each AP is responsible for dealing with hundreds of families and dozens of teachers. And they are not new positions, they have been around since I attended FCPS in the 80's. But people couldn't spout off nonsense about them on anonymous forums and call their work "wastes" in the past.

So it sounds like you are saying the true wastes of tax dollars are the principals. Sounds good to me. We could be saving even more money since big-picture thinkers are great and all, but isn't that what the external executive team is charged with? Regardless, it sounds like there is waste and inefficiency there, the Principal should be doing more of these tasks that you describe. You have described to me a figurehead, the Principal, or as you have described, Queen or King of the School really shouldn't be a thing. Not during this time when the quality of our children's educations is struggling to such a large degree.

As so many have described our schools are in such bad shape, so much so, that you knock the hiring of a salaried executive employee, who serves the entire school system as being wasteful. It's one salary. There are hundreds of redundancies to be eliminated.

We are in dire straights, the sky is falling, our schools are failing, our infrastructure is crumbling, and at the top, of each of these individual wastelands sits a little King and or Queen consuming a lion's share of the fat, and cake, as their castles (school buildings) crumble around, with multiple APs to do what should/could be their jobs. If you must keep your highly paid Principals, then why do we have APs getting paid to do admin work? Or what sounds like traffic cop work? Not to mention the front offices full of desk admins. The admins have admins and admins. Why, in the age of technology, are there so many admin positions? This is asinine. The waste is there, it's right there. Such redundancy in what is essentially middle management.

I'm with you kill the goose already and start with the bloated admin that exists in the actual schools themselves, shrink the front office footprint, add a few classrooms while you are at it, expand the lunchroom and or the playgrounds, and then when you are finished there move on to the admin that is Gatehouse if you must. But seems to me there are 28 big-picture thinkers who are charged with overseeing this mess, maybe we should make it 29 and hire a Chief Efficiency and Anti-Waste Expert. To start getting rid of all of the essentially as you have described highly compensated clerical and traffic cop positions.

NP I disagree with the premise that our schools are bloated. I’ve dealt with all of the administrators at my child’s school and they are all helpful. Spend a day helping at a school and you’ll see how the jobs differ. Surely if you have a job, you understand the difference between a President, CEO, etc and a manager or supervisor.

FCPS has been in decline since the meals tax failed in 2016. New revenue sources need to be tapped and yes waste should be limited but if you want to pay staff more and keep class sizes low, you need to raise resources.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Before being hired by FCPS, Nardos King was an assistant superintendent of the worst performing school district of Maryland.

If you want to be ignored, you could ask Dr. Reid to eliminate this ridiculous job - or at least find someone more competent than Nardos King to pay all that money - tonight, at Glasgow middle school. This is part of Reid’s “Community Conversation” tour.

But I guarantee Reid will ignore any request to reduce or eliminate any Chief Equity Officer position, or reduce the vast amount FCPS wastes on “equity initiatives.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Before being hired by FCPS, Nardos King was an assistant superintendent of the worst performing school district of Maryland.

If you want to be ignored, you could ask Dr. Reid to eliminate this ridiculous job - or at least find someone more competent than Nardos King to pay all that money - tonight, at Glasgow middle school. This is part of Reid’s “Community Conversation” tour.

But I guarantee Reid will ignore any request to reduce or eliminate any Chief Equity Officer position, or reduce the vast amount FCPS wastes on “equity initiatives.”

They’re only one way to change direction on all this wasteful spending by FCPS.

Early voting is now open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Nardos King’s salary bothers you remember than FCPS was willing to pay Ibram Kendi more for an hour-long canned speech of “anti-racist” babble than they’ll pay her in a month.

So little stewardship of taxpayer money, in a system with declining academics and overcrowded buildings. The grift is real.

You make a good point. And provide a good argument that rather than hiring. first speakers is at most a fancy bandaid

Or perhaps it was to orient people to the need for policy and practice change. None the less guest speakers are expensive. All guest speakers of renown are expensive.

But hiring King represents a real commitment and definitive step in the right direction. She is also a bargain in as you have to expressed.

Thanks for your perspective and you are are correct hiring someone to do the really important job of focusing on real change is in balance a positive and is most certainly a step in the right direction and hiring a person to this full time position, rather than the occasional guest speaker, is a sound fiscal move.

Thanks for the corollary.

Sounds like Nardos King's response. :D

Focus on academics and they won’t have to pay grifters to paper over poor performance.

Tell it to the Chief Academic Officer, his name is Sloan Presidio, send him an email to express your frustration with how the school isn't meeting your expectations for your child academically, that's his area of concern. If he is not doing a good job, then let him know. He needs to and wants to hear from you. Stay focused and repeat after me. The Chief Academic Officer is named Sloan Presidio, "He oversees the following departments: Instructional Services, Special Services, and School Improvement and Supports." That is pulled straight from FCPS' website. If your focus is academics, he is your guy.

Further, "As the chief academic officer, Presidio focuses on increasing student academic achievement while continuing to expand equity in education, which means having systems in place to ensure that every student has the opportunity to realize their full potential. " If your little one isn't achieving because they've been cudgeled in the head by equity initiatives, then he wants to hear about it since, prior to Ms. King's hiring, he was in charge, he is still in charge of equity and academics.

Or send Ms. King a letter or email and let her know how her predecessor failed miserably, and you want to make sure she does a better job. Tell how what you think she needs to know to do her job. I'm sure she welcomes your feedback. You have an official person to complain to now. So have at it

But don't be so hard on Mr. Presidio I am sure he tried his best, he was no doubt stretched-thin, Chief Academic Officer is a squishy big title, and no doubt he's made mistakes, did you know he was instrumental in developing the Covid Distance Learning Program, and we all know to hear you tell it, how well that went. It's no wonder that he practically brought down the entire system with his equity works. Well, don't worry. FCPS is finally committed to doing it right. Ms. King has a heavy lift, but I've no doubt she is up to the task. Be thankful that FCPS is finally giving the equity mission the attention and expertise it deserves.

But I repeat, if your issue is academics contact Mr. Presidio he's your man ask him about his plan! Here is his phone number 571-423-4010. Give him a call. I'm sure he wants to hear from you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Our ES has 2 Assistant principals. That’s $300K in waste in one ES.

One ES has 3 principals total. That’s $500K in salaries just in the front office. Such redundancy. This is what people really need to be complaining about. This is tax payer money not going to direct education.

What an ignorant quote. Assistant Principals perform the vital work of maintaining discipline, supervision and at the Elementary level handling all testing. They often divide responsibilities by grade level or content so they are not redundant positions. They hire the teachers and evaluate them. Principals are responsible for the big picture and budget items but the AP's do a lot of the day to day work that families would see. If you have kids in the schools, you know the AP's are the ones that are calling with the issues and handling your emails and requests. They also work 11-12 month contracts as opposed to the 10 month teacher contracts which often accounts for the salary difference.

The amount of AP's is dictated by the size of the population of the school. so each AP is responsible for dealing with hundreds of families and dozens of teachers. And they are not new positions, they have been around since I attended FCPS in the 80's. But people couldn't spout off nonsense about them on anonymous forums and call their work "wastes" in the past.

So it sounds like you are saying the true wastes of tax dollars are the principals. Sounds good to me. We could be saving even more money since big-picture thinkers are great and all, but isn't that what the external executive team is charged with? Regardless, it sounds like there is waste and inefficiency there, the Principal should be doing more of these tasks that you describe. You have described to me a figurehead, the Principal, or as you have described, Queen or King of the School really shouldn't be a thing. Not during this time when the quality of our children's educations is struggling to such a large degree.

As so many have described our schools are in such bad shape, so much so, that you knock the hiring of a salaried executive employee, who serves the entire school system as being wasteful. It's one salary. There are hundreds of redundancies to be eliminated.

We are in dire straights, the sky is falling, our schools are failing, our infrastructure is crumbling, and at the top, of each of these individual wastelands sits a little King and or Queen consuming a lion's share of the fat, and cake, as their castles (school buildings) crumble around, with multiple APs to do what should/could be their jobs. If you must keep your highly paid Principals, then why do we have APs getting paid to do admin work? Or what sounds like traffic cop work? Not to mention the front offices full of desk admins. The admins have admins and admins. Why, in the age of technology, are there so many admin positions? This is asinine. The waste is there, it's right there. Such redundancy in what is essentially middle management.

I'm with you kill the goose already and start with the bloated admin that exists in the actual schools themselves, shrink the front office footprint, add a few classrooms while you are at it, expand the lunchroom and or the playgrounds, and then when you are finished there move on to the admin that is Gatehouse if you must. But seems to me there are 28 big-picture thinkers who are charged with overseeing this mess, maybe we should make it 29 and hire a Chief Efficiency and Anti-Waste Expert. To start getting rid of all of the essentially as you have described highly compensated clerical and traffic cop positions.

NP I disagree with the premise that our schools are bloated. I’ve dealt with all of the administrators at my child’s school and they are all helpful. Spend a day helping at a school and you’ll see how the jobs differ. Surely if you have a job, you understand the difference between a President, CEO, etc and a manager or supervisor.

FCPS has been in decline since the meals tax failed in 2016. New revenue sources need to be tapped and yes waste should be limited but if you want to pay staff more and keep class sizes low, you need to raise resources.

More money is not the answer. Not even close to the answer. Text books and not more tech, discipline in the classroom (removing disruptive students), focusing on the basics and most of all, stop importing poverty (students that present more challenges and use more resources). Those are some areas to start. I realize the last item is not something the school board can control, it is absolutely something our country could control if it chooses to do so. You see that New York has realized the immense burden of massive and fast immigration. But you have to elect politicians who want to do something.

[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

Every time a mom's for liberty troll make a post, a person in FX registers as a Democrat. These posts don't do what they're intended to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Before being hired by FCPS, Nardos King was an assistant superintendent of the worst performing school district of Maryland.

And you think her job as assistant superintendent was the reason or somehow that low performance was a reflection of her? Ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Every time a mom's for liberty troll make a post, a person in FX registers as a Democrat. These posts don't do what they're intended to do.

Every time I see "moms of liberty," which I had never heard of btw before this forum, I think of how progressive Democrats want to shut down conversation, the goal is sell-censorship, a fear of being labeled any of the many things that could get you cancelled. So, call someone MAGA or moms of liberty, the worst of the worst.

Instead of posting what you posted, why don't you actually question the person about what they posted: The issue the person raised is an equity officer can make more than a teacher with a PhD can ever make and implied is the idea of what this say about what we value, a highly-skilled teacher vs an equity officer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Our ES has 2 Assistant principals. That’s $300K in waste in one ES.

One ES has 3 principals total. That’s $500K in salaries just in the front office. Such redundancy. This is what people really need to be complaining about. This is tax payer money not going to direct education.

What an ignorant quote. Assistant Principals perform the vital work of maintaining discipline, supervision and at the Elementary level handling all testing. They often divide responsibilities by grade level or content so they are not redundant positions. They hire the teachers and evaluate them. Principals are responsible for the big picture and budget items but the AP's do a lot of the day to day work that families would see. If you have kids in the schools, you know the AP's are the ones that are calling with the issues and handling your emails and requests. They also work 11-12 month contracts as opposed to the 10 month teacher contracts which often accounts for the salary difference.

The amount of AP's is dictated by the size of the population of the school. so each AP is responsible for dealing with hundreds of families and dozens of teachers. And they are not new positions, they have been around since I attended FCPS in the 80's. But people couldn't spout off nonsense about them on anonymous forums and call their work "wastes" in the past.

I think it is a relevant question to think about whether eliminating positions like this and hiring more teachers to create smaller classes would remove the need for some of the "discipline and supervision."

[Anonymous]

People say that a lot...that we need more teachers, smaller classes. Where exactly are they going to put these classrooms? I guess we could do a sea of mobiles in every campus?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Before being hired by FCPS, Nardos King was an assistant superintendent of the worst performing school district of Maryland.

And you think her job as assistant superintendent was the reason or somehow that low performance was a reflection of her? Ok.

Of course not. An assistant superintendent can't take all the credits. Now that FCPS hired her for equity, she must be very successful in making students perform equally poor regardless of their race, gender and social economic status.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank the all-democrat School Board and Dr. Reid for this sort of waste.

Time for a return to focus on academics in FCPS. Vote republicans onto the Board.

Absolutely! Vote Republican our kids education is on the line!

Because everyone knows Republicans are all about education?

I associate the entire party with graft, grifters, corruption, con-men, cons and ex-cons!

It’s laughable really.

Republicans will do nothing but find a way to steal your tax dollars. They won’t even bother hiring people to fluff positions.

They will just stick their hands directly into the coffers and steal. What they can’t steal they will just destroy!

In the past I associated the national party with war-mongering, but that’s bipartisan these days.

As to FCPS, I associate a more republican dominated/representative school board with the days when FCPS was higher performing, as a matter of historical fact.