Top-heavy superintendent evaluation.It has to be awfully tough to work in a public position where everyone wants to evaluate your performance. For the superintendents in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of state, there was understandable angst angst 1 n. A feeling of anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression. angst 2 abbr. angstrom over a legislative proposal earlier this spring by the governor to give the state the final say on the performance of school system leaders. The governor sought to impose a clause in superintendents' contracts that would force superintendents of poorly performing school districts to accept remedial help. Further, a district's poor standing over four years would serve as grounds for dismissal of the superintendent, who under the governor's proposal would have been presumed guilty of "willful violation of law or neglect of duty Noun 1. neglect of duty - (law) breach of a duty negligence, nonperformance, carelessness, neglect - failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances ." Certainly, when schools persistently fail their students, superintendents and their governing boards ought to be held accountable. However, elevating the consequences only for the superintendent, arguably ar·gu·a·ble adj. 1. Open to argument: an arguable question, still unresolved. 2. That can be argued plausibly; defensible in argument: three arguable points of law. the most accountable school employee already, while granting no new authority to replace or reassign poorly performing faculty and staff, would likely set up school system leaders for failure--as well as undermine the authority of the local governing board to carry out its vital role. As Bob Lowry of the New York State Council of School Superintendents phrased it just before the state legislature A state legislature may refer to a legislative branch or body of a political subdivision in a federal system. The following legislatures exist in the following political subdivisions: This month's issue of the magazine examines the state of superintendent evaluation--through the words of a superintendent-board president tandem in Washington state that has devised a model worth considering and the findings of the latest AASA AASA American Association of School Administrators AASA Asian American Student Association AASA Association of Academies of Sciences in Asia AASA Aging and Adult Services Administration AASA Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army study of the superintendency Su`per`in`tend´en`cy n. 1. The act of superintending; superintendence. on this subject. I'd also call your attention to some newly compiled resources on superintendent evaluation in the "Hot Topics" section of the AASA home page. As always, I'd welcome your feedback. Jay P. GOldman Voice:703-875-0745 E-mail: jgoldman@aasa.org |
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