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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One issue is the inflated Syphax admin staffing.  One example surrounds “curriculum” admin employees.  Their job is to assess and purchase the curriculum used by APS.  You’d be shocked that if you hire an admin to constantly analyze curriculum you get lots of recommendations about this and that curriculum and the best of everything new. So APS CONSTANTLY changes which 7th grade math and which 5th reading and which 3rd grade spelling curriculum they are using.  Teachers who like and know how a certain curriculum works get no say.  They are told by Syphax and are constantly having to learn new curriculum to teach new curriculum.   It’s insane, wasteful of good teachers knowledge, wasteful of taxpayer dollars (constantly purchasing new textbooks and curriculum).  How about we decide what actually works and stick with for, I don’t know, years unless and until a large consensus of teachers tells admin it isn’t working.  We could literally have one person do this job.  [/quote]

The results would be better and it would be lower cost to cut central office staff as outlined above.

For any new curriculum, one cannot even evaluate degree of success/failure in less than about 5 years (approximately). It takes that long to bring a cohort of students from grade 1-5 so one has enough data and can make a valid analysis.

This fundamentally is a leadership problem. If the Superintendent hires people whose job is to evaluate curricula, they will keep changing the curricula in order to keep having a job. [/quote]

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