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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't Minifa expand the number of CO employees by 30% to help improve their focus on equity?[/quote]

And how did they do?[/quote]

They've done a lot to tweak the optics on closing the gap by creating more honors for all programs and reducing opportunities for advanced learners with all these lottery programs.[/quote]

Well, when the county hasn't ponied up to meet budget requests for about three decades, it's kind of hard to meet the total need by opening up enough magnet seats or implementing robust enough local enriched programs.  Using a lottery is intended to blunt the impact of differential opportunities driven by economic condition (e.g., heavy outside prep), though the criteria they employ could better be used to that effect with a more well considered heuristic.

Not saying they are great with the budget or that there isn't waste, but, like much of US infrastructure, the built up technical debt, both physical plant and programmatic, means we've got pounds of cure to fund instead of the ounces of prevention we could have.

You're right about the optics.  Upper management undercuts truer analysis by ensuring the questions asked when evaluating programs pretty much lead to the conclusions they want, and the few times they are asked for more by the BOE, they tend to wave that off verbally, bury the response in something that doesn't get discussed in person or, sometimes, outright lie.  The BOE has been absolutely terrible about follow-ups/second- or third-level inquiry that would highlight a need to do something different.

Except for the couple of specific interests they champion of course.  (Not that those are bad, necessarily, but they take up all of their time & energy.)[/quote]

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