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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile MCPS hires replacements from PG County Public Schools.

Still wondering why MCPS shouldn't hire candidates with experience from PCGPS.

DP. Maybe because it's better to recruit from school districts above a C-?

https://www.niche.com/k12/d/prince-georges-county-public-schools-md/

Seriously? Niche rankings should determine who MCPS hires? Especially while we're in a critical teacher shortage?

Yes, seriously. Overall MCPS should be recruiting the best possible educators / talent. MCPS should be recruiting new teachers from colleges, not from a messed up County who can't get their act together.

If you don't like niche, fine. But they all say the same.

Only 4 PCGPS high schools (ranked #47, 52, 70, 94) made the top 100 in MD.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/prince-georges-county-public-schools-104078

MCPS had 22 of the top 100 in MD (ranked #1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 15, 18, 25, 28, 34, 35, 37, 42, 43, 49, 50, 54, 68, 71, 81, 97).
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/montgomery-county-public-schools-104047

4% vs 22% meant that MCPS has about five-and-a-half times more schools in the MD top 100. If you pick staff from one of the 4 effective PCGPS schools, that's one thing, but why would you recruit staff from a school worse than your own County's? That also means that you passed over internally promoting / rewarding someone from one of the 15 schools rated higher than the best school in PCGPS, which I would think is insulting to your own staff and teachers?

If you find that new teachers don't want to come to MCPS, that's because of MCPS leadership. Word gets around if a CO treats teachers like cattle or has personal agendas. Teachers want to go to the best schools to educate children. But if the CO only supports the rotten apples, well, that word gets around as well. Until MCPS admits it has a leadership failure, things won't improve.

promoting from within would be smart and strategic

DCUM complains when they do that, too.

Or, hire from schools better than MCPS, or colleges that rank nationally (not just in North Carolina)?

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Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile MCPS hires replacements from PG County Public Schools.

Still wondering why MCPS shouldn't hire candidates with experience from PCGPS.

DP. Maybe because it's better to recruit from school districts above a C-?

https://www.niche.com/k12/d/prince-georges-county-public-schools-md/

Seriously? Niche rankings should determine who MCPS hires? Especially while we're in a critical teacher shortage?

Yes, seriously. Overall MCPS should be recruiting the best possible educators / talent. MCPS should be recruiting new teachers from colleges, not from a messed up County who can't get their act together.

If you don't like niche, fine. But they all say the same.

Only 4 PCGPS high schools (ranked #47, 52, 70, 94) made the top 100 in MD.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/prince-georges-county-public-schools-104078

MCPS had 22 of the top 100 in MD (ranked #1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 15, 18, 25, 28, 34, 35, 37, 42, 43, 49, 50, 54, 68, 71, 81, 97).
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/montgomery-county-public-schools-104047

4% vs 22% meant that MCPS has about five-and-a-half times more schools in the MD top 100. If you pick staff from one of the 4 effective PCGPS schools, that's one thing, but why would you recruit staff from a school worse than your own County's? That also means that you passed over internally promoting / rewarding someone from one of the 15 schools rated higher than the best school in PCGPS, which I would think is insulting to your own staff and teachers?

If you find that new teachers don't want to come to MCPS, that's because of MCPS leadership. Word gets around if a CO treats teachers like cattle or has personal agendas. Teachers want to go to the best schools to educate children. But if the CO only supports the rotten apples, well, that word gets around as well. Until MCPS admits it has a leadership failure, things won't improve.

promoting from within would be smart and strategic

DCUM complains when they do that, too.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile MCPS hires replacements from PG County Public Schools.

Still wondering why MCPS shouldn't hire candidates with experience from PCGPS.

DP. Maybe because it's better to recruit from school districts above a C-?

https://www.niche.com/k12/d/prince-georges-county-public-schools-md/

Seriously? Niche rankings should determine who MCPS hires? Especially while we're in a critical teacher shortage?

Yes, seriously. Overall MCPS should be recruiting the best possible educators / talent. MCPS should be recruiting new teachers from colleges, not from a messed up County who can't get their act together.

If you don't like niche, fine. But they all say the same.

Only 4 PCGPS high schools (ranked #47, 52, 70, 94) made the top 100 in MD.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/prince-georges-county-public-schools-104078

MCPS had 22 of the top 100 in MD (ranked #1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 15, 18, 25, 28, 34, 35, 37, 42, 43, 49, 50, 54, 68, 71, 81, 97).
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/montgomery-county-public-schools-104047

4% vs 22% meant that MCPS has about five-and-a-half times more schools in the MD top 100. If you pick staff from one of the 4 effective PCGPS schools, that's one thing, but why would you recruit staff from a school worse than your own County's? That also means that you passed over internally promoting / rewarding someone from one of the 15 schools rated higher than the best school in PCGPS, which I would think is insulting to your own staff and teachers?

If you find that new teachers don't want to come to MCPS, that's because of MCPS leadership. Word gets around if a CO treats teachers like cattle or has personal agendas. Teachers want to go to the best schools to educate children. But if the CO only supports the rotten apples, well, that word gets around as well. Until MCPS admits it has a leadership failure, things won't improve.

promoting from within would be smart and strategic

There was a big thread about this over the summer. The MCPS trolls were trying to argue "it's normal for big school districts", "there wasn't enough funding to go around", "it's poverty driven", etc. If anyone tries to claim that - here's the data to tell them they're full of s***.

20 Largest School Districts State Size Rank # of Students not in the school system (Ranked of 120) Revenue per Student (Ranked of 120) # Open Investig (Disability) Student-to-Investig Ratio (Disability) Student-to-Investig Ratio Rank of 20 Largest Sch Dist (Disability) # Open Investig (Sex) Student-to-Investig Ratio (Sex) Student-to-Investig Ratio Rank of 20 Largest Sch Dist (Sex) # Open Investig (Race) Student-to-Investig Ratio (Race) Student-to-Investig Ratio Rank of 20 Largest Sch Dist (Race) Revenue per Student Enrollment, fall 2017 "Revenues by source of funds, 2016-17, Total (in
thousands)" 5- to 17-yr-old pop, 2017 # of Students not in the school system % of 5- to 17-yr-old pop in school , 2017 Poverty rate of 5- to 17-year olds, 2017
Fairfax County VA 11 64 23 9 20,951 1 3 62,852 5 4 1,918 3 $15,145 188556 $2,855,683 196227 7671 96% 7.5
Charlotte-Mecklenburg NC 17 8 102 6 24,605 2 0 N/A 17 4 9,296 9 $9,781 147631 $1,443,941 184813 37182 80% 15.2
Hawaii Department of Education HI 12 10 18 6 30,140 3 5 36,167 3 0 N/A 20 $15,728 180837 $2,844,167 215635 34798 84% 10.4
Palm Beach FL 10 32 61 6 31,964 4 0 N/A 16 4 3,939 6 $11,413 191786 $2,188,847 207543 15757 92% 15.2
Wake County NC 15 13 112 5 32,283 5 4 40,354 4 5 6,111 8 $8,925 161417 $1,440,668 191972 30555 84% 11.1
Montgomery County MD 14 28 6 5 32,309 6 6 26,924 2 5 3,577 5 $19,151 161546 $3,093,843 179429 17883 90% 8.9
Prince George's County MD 18 48 13 4 33,079 7 0 N/A 18 1 11,501 10 $17,121 132317 $2,265,380 143818 11501 92% 10.9
Broward FL 6 15 96 8 33,995 8 2 135,978 9 5 5,395 7 $9,967 271956 $2,710,577 298929 26973 91% 17.2
Orange FL 9 37 60 5 40,796 9 0 N/A 15 5 2,882 4 $11,428 203982 $2,331,075 218392 14410 93% 20.5
Duval FL 20 25 108 3 43,194 10 2 64,792 6 1 18,841 12 $9,506 129583 $1,231,819 148424 18841 87% 21.4
Houston ISD TX 8 9 58 4 53,544 11 2 107,088 7 1 36,538 14 $11,521 214175 $2,467,450 250713 36538 85% 28.6
Hillsborough FL 7 33 103 3 72,357 12 1 217,072 12 11 1,406 2 $9,773 217072 $2,121,511 232538 15466 93% 19.5
Gwinnett County GA 13 65 69 2 89,633 13 8 22,408 1 13 572 1 $11,005 179266 $1,972,752 186702 7436 96% 14.7
Dade* FL 4 6 81 3* 118,280 14 3 118,280 8 0 N/A 18 $10,370 354840 $3,679,802 399160 44320 89% 21.2
Dallas ISD TX 16 7 47 1 156,832 15 1 156,832 10 2 20,090 13 $12,212 156832 $1,915,292 197011 40179 80% 27.5
Los Angeles Unified CA 2 3 15 3 207,138 16 0 N/A 20 0 N/A 16 $17,028 621414 $10,581,333 707609 86195 88% 23.7
Clark County NV 5 5 88 1 329,259 17 1 329,259 13 0 N/A 19 $10,202 329259 $3,359,206 374695 45436 88% 18.9
New York City NY 1 1 2 1 976,771 18 5 195,354 11 14 18,598 11 $30,566 976771 $29,855,533 1237149 260378 79% 24.6
Philadelphia City PA 19 2 4 N/A N/A 19 0 N/A 19 1 107,973 15 $24,516 131238 $3,217,491 239211 107973 55% 30.5
City of Chicago (SD 299) IL 3 14 20 N/A N/A 20 1 373,700 14 0 N/A 17 $15,628 373700 $5,840,203 402830 29130 93% 25

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Anonymous wrote:I am personally more concerned about how Central Office staff who come from other school systems with a history of discrimination against students, particularly against students with disabilities. It’s not a track record to be proud of and it’s definitely not a standard that should be welcomed in MCPS.

Care to give any examples?

DP. Oooh!! Oooh!! (raising hand) I know the answer to this one!!!

This summer 97.6% of organizations currently under investigation by the Department of Education Office of Civil RIghts had lower open investigation rates than MCPS. Only 14 school districts out of approximately 13,800 public school districts in the United States had more open investigations than MCPS.

Open Inv Count per Org # of Org % of Total # Inv (Total) % of Total Cum+ Cum-
N/A 121 20.72% 177 16.51% 20.72% 79.28%
1 238 40.75% 238 22.20% 61.47% 38.53%
2 135 23.12% 270 25.19% 84.59% 15.41%
3 44 7.53% 132 12.31% 92.12% 7.88%
4 17 2.91% 68 6.34% 95.03% 4.97%
5 15 2.57% 75 7.00% 97.60% 2.40%
6 6 1.03% 36 3.36% 98.63% 1.37%
7 2 0.34% 14 1.31% 98.97% 1.03%
8 3 0.51% 24 2.24% 99.49% 0.51%
11 1 0.17% 11 1.03% 99.66% 0.34%
13 1 0.17% 13 1.21% 99.83% 0.17%
14 1 0.17% 14 1.31% 100.00% 0.00%
584 100.00% 1072 100%

We've also seen what she did for Asians in the magnet program.

Does that help?

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Anonymous wrote:I am personally more concerned about how Central Office staff who come from other school systems with a history of discrimination against students, particularly against students with disabilities. It’s not a track record to be proud of and it’s definitely not a standard that should be welcomed in MCPS.

Care to give any examples?

Dr. McKnight should want to hire people who have expertise in the area in which they'll be serving. When you surround yourself with people who have the right expertise, they make you look good. When you hire people because you think they'll be loyal to you, or at least not make trouble, you don't help yourself. I'm as concerned about the good people who are leaving for neighboring counties. Instead of saying 'don't let the door hit you on the way out' to people who aren't blindly loyal, she should be trying to retain the talented professionals we've got.

Anonymous wrote:I am personally more concerned about how Central Office staff who come from other school systems with a history of discrimination against students, particularly against students with disabilities. It’s not a track record to be proud of and it’s definitely not a standard that should be welcomed in MCPS.

Care to give any examples?

I am personally more concerned about Central Office staff who come from other school systems with a history of discrimination against students, particularly against students with disabilities. It’s not a track record to be proud of and it’s definitely not a standard that should be welcomed in MCPS.

Anonymous wrote:And maybe good teachers in PGCPS want to join MCPS.

Wait - how than there be any good staff there if their rankings don't meet your standards?

And maybe good teachers in PGCPS want to join MCPS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile MCPS hires replacements from PG County Public Schools.

Still wondering why MCPS shouldn't hire candidates with experience from PCGPS.

DP. Maybe because it's better to recruit from school districts above a C-?

https://www.niche.com/k12/d/prince-georges-county-public-schools-md/

Seriously? Niche rankings should determine who MCPS hires? Especially while we're in a critical teacher shortage?

Yes, seriously. Overall MCPS should be recruiting the best possible educators / talent. MCPS should be recruiting new teachers from colleges, not from a messed up County who can't get their act together.

If you don't like niche, fine. But they all say the same.

Only 4 PCGPS high schools (ranked #47, 52, 70, 94) made the top 100 in MD.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/prince-georges-county-public-schools-104078

MCPS had 22 of the top 100 in MD (ranked #1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 15, 18, 25, 28, 34, 35, 37, 42, 43, 49, 50, 54, 68, 71, 81, 97).
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/maryland/districts/montgomery-county-public-schools-104047

4% vs 22% meant that MCPS has about five-and-a-half times more schools in the MD top 100. If you pick staff from one of the 4 effective PCGPS schools, that's one thing, but why would you recruit staff from a school worse than your own County's? That also means that you passed over internally promoting / rewarding someone from one of the 15 schools rated higher than the best school in PCGPS, which I would think is insulting to your own staff and teachers?

If you find that new teachers don't want to come to MCPS, that's because of MCPS leadership. Word gets around if a CO treats teachers like cattle or has personal agendas. Teachers want to go to the best schools to educate children. But if the CO only supports the rotten apples, well, that word gets around as well. Until MCPS admits it has a leadership failure, things won't improve.

If MCPS were to turn away applicants from PGCPS or other schools with lower Niche or USNews rankings, it would just lead to more vacancies not being filled, and more classes being led by substitutes, which by the way they also can't hire quickly enough.