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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Your "controlled presses" almost certainly rely on automated systems that probably costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and require at least one IT person to run. For the "auditing and checking constantly" you mention so casually, you're talking about 2-6 trained people who do NOTHING but focus on these statistics. I'm in research and I earn 6 figures, and DH is actually in statistics and he also earns 6 figures. That's the kind of operation you're talking about, with anywhere from 2-6 (or more!) IT people and statisticians dedicated to these statistics.

Let's compare to MCPS! We're talking about paper reporting, at least at the initial stage, by some multi-tasking person in some school or MCPS office who has a dozen other more pressing tasks besides one. Somebody else who has to enter the data. We're also talking about some number-cruncher who also has a real job besides hounding others to (a) report their data and (b) resolve inconsistencies. We're talking about MCPS administrators who probably have more pressing tasks than this one, and although they do take too may junkets, I for one am glad they haven't made this particular worm hole a priority. So the 2010 data probably doesn't exist yet, for all the reasons I've listed.[/quote]

I am not the researcher who pointed out that raises being a response to retention was a bogus position because the data doesn't support that retention is a problem aligned with pay freezes. However, I do know that it doesn't take 2-6 people and an IT person to calculate the annual turn-over percentage. Geez, this is simple stuff that an intern could do.

The raises are politically motivated. Montgomery County is not the area to do away with math acceleration and curriculum 2.0 will be a huge political problem for the school board. Its a pretty big deal with all the hyper educated folks in this area. I already know three families who were planning to leave DC for MOCO but decided to go to VA instead because they heard about how bad math was under 2.0. Starr and the school board can not survive with both the union and the parent population voting against them. [/quote]

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