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Dr. Griefs' performance should earn him somewhere in the range of a "Kids Meal".

Here's my prediction:

At tonight's GCS Board meeting, you will NOT hear that only 51% of Smith students passed the AYP tests.

You WILL hear that 82% of the Smith subgroups passed AYP.

An Amazing Spin!

I bet Grier's salary incentives are tied to the percentage of subgroups passing, NOT the percentage of students passing!

Numbersgame,

Interesting observation about Grier's perfromance goals. According to the November 17, 2005 Board Meeting Minutes, Grier's goal regarding AYP was stated as follows: "Increase in number of schools that meet AYP."

Now, since that is the sole performance goal from Grier, I suppose that manipulation of the results would help lead to success. Could this be the objective in creating multiple new "Academies"? If Grier spins off multiple specialized schools and academies, then he can claim that there are more schools meeting AYP. Unfortunately, with a vague goal such as this, it is impossible for him not to achieve it. Any competent HR Manager would tell you that such a goad is worthless.

Stormy,

Why would a school superintendent allow there to be 2 SCALE Schools located in the same building in Greensboro???????

Bingo,,,,it gives Dr. Grief a better chance at accomplishing his goals toward a RAISE......

Just another thought,,,,Does a Hoodlums' test scores go toward the achievement at his home school or toward his Scale School?????

Does it depend on the length of his Sentence at the Scale School????????

Seems like a lot of gray areas that allow Dr. Grief and Gongshu the Magician a lot of room to manipulate GCS Success/Fail rate.....

Wake Up Guilford County,,,Dr. Grief is SCREWING you blind.....

give the man a raise and extend his contract
he delivered

I see the supposed 8% raise for teachers is actually going to be 7.4% for those with 5 years experience. Is it a sliding scale? At what number of years does the full 8% kick in?

Jennifer:

Seems The Rhino scopped y'all. They report the raise for teachers was actually NOT based on a percentage at all; Gov. Mike Easley was being shorthanded, you might say. It is a straight amount of $2,250 per teacher, plus the regularly scheduled step raises. Thus, teachers moving from step 2 to 3 are getting a 14% raise. The percentages drop dramatically as one climbs steps.

Bait and switch, I say.

Central Office and DPI apparently feel there's no reason for apology or elaborate explanation, as if we should have all expected this. Ah, yes, we should have, shouldn't we? But the general public will not understand this: they will either hold over the teachers' heads, "You got big raises of 8%!!", or they will not be empathetic if the teachers with more experience worry they aren't keeping pace with inflation.

The Governor's plan is to raise teacher salaries to the national average, currently $52,266 and rising (not to the higher average of neighboring states Tennessee and Virginia) by 2008.
If he uses the same math as this recent raise, I expect third step employees to be making only a few dollars less than tenth step.

Meanwhile, Superintendents intend to get super raises that boost them well beyond the Governor's own salary, and eventually the President's, I suppose. This is exactly the kind of corporate greed that threatens the entire capitalist structure.

And the product line isn't even markedly improved.

Several schools in the county have jumped from 16-17 students per class at the early grades, to 24 or so. This is an increase of about 33%. Thus, the county is asking teachers to increase workload and productivity (probably with concomitant decrease in student productivity thanks to less one-on-one instructional opportunities), while providing a sliding scale raise as low as 5% for the more experienced teachers.

What kind of fair is THAT? And wait until AYPs drop as a result of the larger classes.