There's a widespread feeling among the anti-Miles side that his performance review system is not well thought out and is primarily used as cover to force out administrators who are in any way resistant to him. Not saying I agree, just that this is the sentiment I've observed both directly - at community meetings, friends who are HISD faculty, etc. - and indirectly via the myriad stories in the Chronicle, Houston Public Media, Houston Landing, etc (Yes, folks, there are other media in town covering this besides the Chronicle!).
A few principals on the list are quite surprising and come from fairly well-performing schools, some of which have already seen some backlash in their active online parent communities who are afraid this is the lead-in to an excuse to take their school to NES (more than a few have mentioned the experience of Pugh Elementary).
I wonder - no, I don't have any inside info, this really is just speculation - if the leaker(s) who sent the email to the Chronicle was a principal with the intent to publish their own name to create a community backlash?
But I also could put publishing a personnel review list down to bumbling journalistic ineptitude, too.
Who wants to work for a public school district where your interim performance evaluations get published in the newspaper? If we want the most talent in every seat, the Chronicle is doing a huge disservice to the kids of Houston by publishing the list.
I wish there was a good source for local Houston news apart from the Chronicle.
By just about any measure, HISD has been failing to educate their students. HISD is not unique.
That is a result of poor management. Clearly, there are great teachers and successful schools that have children with similar demographics to HISD.
Change is difficult because it disrupts power structures, routines, and payments.
As a citizen, I am encouraged by the changes being made because it is indisputable that HISD has chronically failed its students
The Houston Chronicle is aiding and abetting the former structures quest to return to a familiar failed normal.
If over 1/2 of our 3rd graders can not read on grade level, then it woul not surprise me that 1/2 of the principals are not up to standards.
There's a widespread feeling among the anti-Miles side that his performance review system is not well thought out and is primarily used as cover to force out administrators who are in any way resistant to him. Not saying I agree, just that this is the sentiment I've observed both directly - at community meetings, friends who are HISD faculty, etc. - and indirectly via the myriad stories in the Chronicle, Houston Public Media, Houston Landing, etc (Yes, folks, there are other media in town covering this besides the Chronicle!).
A few principals on the list are quite surprising and come from fairly well-performing schools, some of which have already seen some backlash in their active online parent communities who are afraid this is the lead-in to an excuse to take their school to NES (more than a few have mentioned the experience of Pugh Elementary).
I wonder - no, I don't have any inside info, this really is just speculation - if the leaker(s) who sent the email to the Chronicle was a principal with the intent to publish their own name to create a community backlash?
But I also could put publishing a personnel review list down to bumbling journalistic ineptitude, too.
just one more example of why the general public has come to distrust the press
Damn!
This: “Heads should roll in both places”.
Who wants to work for a public school district where your interim performance evaluations get published in the newspaper? If we want the most talent in every seat, the Chronicle is doing a huge disservice to the kids of Houston by publishing the list.
Who gave the doc to the union?