CONTRACTS EXTENDED FOR LAUSD BRASS : SCHOOL BOARD TABLES PAY-RAISE PLAN.Byline: Kimberly Kindy kindy, kindie Noun pl -dies Austral & NZ informal a kindergarten Daily News Staff Writer The Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Board of Education extended the contracts of 24 top administrators Thursday, but conceded con·cede v. con·ced·ed, con·ced·ing, con·cedes v.tr. 1. To acknowledge, often reluctantly, as being true, just, or proper; admit. See Synonyms at acknowledge. 2. there were serious weaknesses in the goal-driven performance evaluations Performance evaluation The assessment of a manager's results, which involves, first, determining whether the money manager added value by outperforming the established benchmark (performance measurement) and, second, determining how the money manager achieved the calculated return . The board refused a proposal by Superintendent Sid Thompson to hand out more than $42,000 in annual pay raises to the managers and other high-ranking administrators. Board members said they would demand that Thompson establish clearer and tougher goals for the administrators during the coming year, and submit them to the board for approval no later than September. Thompson, heading into the last year of his own contract, also will be required to provide interim performance evaluations of the 24 top managers in March and June of 1997. Board members - who two years ago pledged greater accountability beginning at the top in the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. - told the superintendent to speed things up. He said he would. ``The board wants a formal process. They want specificity, they want it written and they want it in front of them to evaluate,'' Thompson said. ``That's what we're moving toward.'' Several board members said they were unhappy that the administrators' performance evaluations fell short in defining specific job tasks and in explaining whether performance standards had been met. Board members said they want qualitative and quantitative evaluations of who's doing his job - and who isn't. ``I want to know who's doing an average job and who our superstars This article is about the televised sports competition. For other uses, see Superstar. Superstars is an all-around sports competition that pits elite athletes from different sports against one another in a series of athletic challenges resembling a decathlon. are,'' said board member Barbara Boudreaux. While they approved the performance reviews and extended the managers' contracts for another year, the school board rejected a proposal by Thompson to hand out about $42,000 in administrative pay raises. For example, he proposed raising the pay of Assistant Superintendents Assistant Superintendent, or Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), was a rank used by police forces in the British Empire. It was usually the lowest rank that could be held by a European officer, most of whom joined the police at this rank. Judy Burton and Liliam Castillo from $98,241 a year each to $103,766. That would made their salaries equal to those of Assistant Superintendents Dan Isaacs, Amy McKenna and Gordon Wohlers - who along with Burton and Castillo comprise the five-member ``superintendent's cabinet.'' Thompson also proposed expanding the bureaucratic bu·reau·crat n. 1. An official of a bureaucracy. 2. An official who is rigidly devoted to the details of administrative procedure. bu ranks of assistant and associate superintendents - which already number 17 - by promoting John Liechty, now director of secondary instruction, to the rank of assistant superintendent in charge of implementing Thompson's ``Call to Action.'' The Call to Action is a set of five-year goals for the district established at the beginning of the 1995-96 school year. Liechty would get a raise of about $4,800 a year under the proposal. The board tabled the pay raises, asking Thompson to come back later with further justification for them. The pay-raise plan infuriated in·fu·ri·ate tr.v. in·fu·ri·at·ed, in·fu·ri·at·ing, in·fu·ri·ates To make furious; enrage. adj. Archaic Furious. some board members, who said they were unaware it was coming before Thompson brought it to them Thursday. ``I was floored that there was no presentation for this,'' said board member David Tokofsky. ``Why he didn't ask for this at the same time he asked for the renewals makes it incoherent - or maybe it's just disingenuous dis·in·gen·u·ous adj. 1. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating: "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who ... exemplified ... .'' Thompson could not be reached for comment on the pay raise and promotion proposals. Earlier Thursday, he said he would work with the Xerox Corp. to develop better evaluation tools for next year. Board President Mark Slavkin said the board generally was satisfied with the senior staff's performance, noting that many major objectives had been met. The district's Call to Action was developed, an 8-year-old bilingual master plan was rewritten, the district's reform plan was expanded and learning standards Learning Standards is a term used to describe standards applied to education content, particularly in the US K-12 space. The Learning Standards themselves can can be found on the individual web sites for states [1] for all students were developed, he noted. ``We are satisfied with the overall performance, but we want a more refined process,'' said Slavkin. ``These are very professional people. We are not talking about evaluating whether they come to work on time.'' |
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