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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to talk about syphax and administrative bloat you have to acknowledge and wrestle with the role of parent activists in keeping admin costs high.  One example of this is the Advisory Council on Teaching and Learning, and all of its subject matter committees.  Recognize that these largely self appointed parent 'expert' committees each have a staff liaison.  Organizing those meetings, providing data for the parents, etc- consumes a ton of staff resources.   Also, those committees nearly always make recommendations that ask for additional syphax staff.  e.g. we need an 'immersion specialist' to coordinate immersion activities across the system; we need to do an 'equity audit' of the entire social studies curriculum to ensure that we are teaching equitably.  If you skim through the recommendations from ACTL you will notice how many of them involve increasing or upgrading central office staff- https://www.apsva.us/citizen-advisory-groups/actl/   e.g. change the supervisor in advanced academics to a director; create a career testing coordinator position; hire more district level writing and literacy coaches; create 'science coach' positions; create a social studies elementary school specialist position.
Similarly the office of planning and evaluation is huge- b/c they spend so much time 'engaging' with the public and getting feedback.   
There is a balance to be struck- arlington likes its engagement- and their are a lot of benefits to it, but there are also costs associated and those need to be acknowledged.[/quote]

An interesting thought.
It illustrates how the "solution" to every single issue is always a "new" something to address said specific issue -- rather than thinking more holistically and considering alternative ways of doing what we're currently doing without increasing staff or adding a new program or doing another study.[/quote]

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