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-Gut the current ACPS central office administrators. It's like they are in bred with same old approach. Do a national search with specific parameters and start anew based on premise of a city with underperforming academic standing. [/quote]

THIS 100%. Central office--at least the 'decision makers'-- is made up largely of people who've either only worked at ACPS (and thus don't know that "the way we've always done it" isn't the only way) or people who couldn't hack it in other districts. I daresay that 90% of the people at Braddock Place haven't set foot in an active classroom, except perhaps for a PR photo, in 10+ years (if ever). I remember trying to deal with what should have been a very simple reimbursement check issue that ended up taking 3 weeks to resolve because the person at central office insisted on doing business over the phone rather than email and didn't understand/care that when you're a teacher you can't just pick up the phone whenever is convenient for central office. At one point I was even told "well, why don't you just stop by and we can figure this out in person" as if I worked down the hall in another office. That the same attitude applies to many other things with far greater impact that one teacher's $100 check helps demonstrate why ACPS is in the state it's in.

Related to this: stop letting people fail up. If you can't hack it as a principal/vice-principal, you shouldn't get promoted to a district-wide position. And if you do, and subsequently don't succeed at [i]that [/i]position, you absolutely shouldn't be back in school administration. We have all sorts of (mostly arbitrary) metrics to gauge "teacher performance" and your career can essentially be ended if you don't measure up. Similarly, if your district/school fails, superintendents and principals can get removed fairly easily. But those 'middle management' types- the vice-principals, the assistant superintendents-- they end up sticking around for life, always turning up like a bad penny. Make [i]them [/i] accountable too. [/quote]

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