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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The planning staff should go— you notice that they had to add 6 buses to support the boundaries they drew just six months ago!  That means not a single bus was eliminated at the new school at key (innovation) and they had to add six buses to support Reed.  They’ve been saying for years that Reed is a one hundred percent walkable school.  They zoned bus riders who could have gone to asfs to key to avoid optics of driving them past a school, and then zoned walkers to key to asfs (where they need a bus) because there wasn’t room for them at key anymore.  
They make bad decisions anc these are on going costs[/quote]

I agree with this. The person above who seems to think we need to add more staff to Central Office to fix it is crazy. Step 1 for Duran is to do a talent assessment and clean out the staff who aren't effective and replace them with better talent. After that, then he can decide if he needs to add more bodies-- and he should make a much more compelling case to the School Board than what is in that budget document.

The planning office is a great example of where we have a lot of people who are totally ineffective. That office has 12 full-time employees, and yet every time we do a boundary change, parents find data errors on the face of nearly every spreadsheet. The planning office does sloppy work, and there is no quality control. Throwing more bodies into that office isn't going to do anything until you pull out the bad apples.

Most of the Central Office staff that are being added in the budget are nice-to-haves and not must-haves. For example, an APS outdoor classroom coordinator in Central Office? Do we really want to prioritize a new position like that over middle school extracurricular activities? [/quote]

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