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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm concerned about Taylor. Laura Stewart is asking for a slower transition, and Taylor turned that down flat. Key information about transportation costs are now unknowable, per Taylor's comments. The chief academic officer is sure we have all the expertise we need among current educators to duplicate programs regionally. Educators and the community think that isn't the case. Professional education has not been addressed at all; The Chief Academic Officer admitted she wasn't sure what teachers had which expertise and she didn't know which schools they were located in. I wish Taylor could exhibit more flexibility.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          [/quote]

Um I agree with Taylor on this.  If we are moving to a new strategy, at some point we have to done with the old and commit fully to the new in order to truly evaluate.  There is a clear understanding of where this transition is occurring and even grace being provided to allow kids already in programs/schools to finish.

The do need to flesh out a Training/Teacher recruitment plan.  The system may have lots of expertise, but it may not be exactly where they need/want it so they may need to provide incentive to some teachers and there is likely other places where they in fact do need to recruit new teachers/staff.  They should start to figure some of that out quickly, [b]so they can begin to target some of the people in the job market who might want the opportunity.[/b][/quote]

Check out their budget estimate from yesterday's slides. They have zero dollar investing in hiring new teacher in the job market. Nicky said explicitly that they will advertise opportunities to existing teachers, and see who are willing to move around. They have no idea how many teachers are needed for each new program (total 16 new programs), what new courses are needed to be built, and they need to figure those things out and get everyone in place in 2 years starting from now on with 0.5 FTE/region investment.   [/quote]

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