Of course it's not that they didn't want to implement teacher-hating "reforms" in that shithole of a state.
"Merit pay" schemes will result in principals being even more insane than they are now since favoritism will become more rampant, provided there is any money at all to pay "bonuses" to teachers:
School district officials said the state did not put any money into funding the performance-pay programs, so some school districts assumed that they didn’t have to create the system.
“Statewide, the resources have not been set aside,” said Pedro Martinez, Washoe County School District superintendent.
Washoe implemented a limited pay-for-performance model via a federal grant, but Smith said the district still didn’t follow mandates to get a state-level plan in place so that money could neatly transition when a performance-pay council established under another 2011 law finished its work.
Clark County School District also has a district-sponsored pay-for-performance model at some schools, but its administrators did not submit any report to the Legislature pursuant to the 2011 law.
“It was a matter of miscommunication,” said Joyce Haldeman, associate superintendent for the district.
The "coordinator" of the "performance pay" plan via TIF grant for WCSD is none other than the shitbag who illegally fired me to cover her ass when she didn't do her goddamned job.
I'll say that much for former WCSD sup Heath Morrison who put her in that job before he left Nevada for the greener pastures of Charlotte, North Carolina: He had one sick sense of humor.
James Guthrie is pushing for this "merit pay" shit, and he is a completely unqualified dolt.
Love these comments following the article:
What did they say? "School district officials said the state did not put any money into funding the performance-pay programs, so some school districts assumed that they didn't have to create the system."
All the position shuffling has left education in Nevada a mess! High turnover rates due to those either leaving a position for a higher (paying) position, or leaving the state or profession, due to the Nevada Lawmakers not funding education in this state in a SUSTAINABLE AND CONSISTENT manner. All this does have a "trickle down effect" into our Nevada classrooms, with lower academic and social performance. How's that working out?
All this chaos kills motivation and morale with school employees. Programs get started (at great expense, resources, and effort), only to be cancelled for the next school year. The top down management system has virtually alienated parent involvement at schools, whereas parents don't feel any kind of ownership with their neighborhood school their child attends.
These are NOT "growing pains" as the Governor suggests, these are real problems of politically legislating laws that were NOT thought through, nor funded! Come on, take some responsibility on that and not dismiss the problem!
The Citizens of Nevada should be outraged over this, but half of them aren't literate enough to follow such events in the news. Educators simply throw their hands in the air and say, "There's nothing we can do about the students' homes/parents" and keep hitting their heads on the wall, doing the same worthless solution over and over and getting the same results (what? the definition of insanity?).
If we want Nevada education to work, we ALL must participate and make it happen.
A parent is a child's first and lifelong teacher.
Blessings and Peace,
Star
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Half the state board only won because Elaine Wynn endorsed and bank rolled their campaign with obscene amounts of money. That doesn't create a "half elected board," it creates a "half bought board," with the other half being appointed by even more elected officials that big business has bank rolled.
Even Guthrie isn't qualified or experienced to run things. He is a highly partisan economist not an education expert.
Hey, Arne Duncan has only a B.A. in sociology from Harvard and is totally unqualified, but there he is dictating education policy from Washington at Obama's request. What is good for Arne should be good for no-good James W. Guthrie.
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