to drown THAT city's school system in red ink.
http://blog.al.com/breaking/20...ols_chief_ann_r.html
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good lord. you know, florence city school just barely missed that bullet. she left here to go to h'ville and many wished her good riddance then. good riddance now, mrs. moore!
quote:Originally posted by beternU:
to drown THAT city's school system in red ink.
http://blog.al.com/breaking/20...ols_chief_ann_r.html
I knew Dr. Moore very well when she was Deputy Superintendent in Florence. She was a great advocate for students. The blame for the mess in Huntsville goes directly to the school board, whose members arrogantly ignored all the warning signs of proration and other financial difficulties presented by the state and federal governments; e.g., unfunded mandates. Also, they somehow failed to recognize the flight to Madison City and Madison County schools.
I have two friends who teach in Huntsville: one at Grissom (supposedly the "Cadillac" school; the other at J. O. Johnson, which is a truly frightening place to be. Both of the schools, for totally different reasons, are expensive puppies. Both of my friends said that their elected school board members had the attitude that "We're Huntsville, our funding won't be cut," despite daily (and sometimes more than daily) warnings from Dr. Moore and the financial people that the hammer was about to drop. Unless the voters replace some or all of the school board members, the new Superintendent is doomed to failure before he or she is even on the job.
If she doesn't legally change her name she'll be unemployable. I wouldn't flirt with an association with the Mad Fundamentalist Judge of Alabama.
With her buy-out package, why would she want to work?
Originally Posted by falcon1234:
quote:I knew Dr. Moore very well when she was Deputy Superintendent in Florence. She was a great advocate for students. The blame for the mess in Huntsville goes directly to the school board,
Hi Falcon.
the school board only approves (or not) of the budget proposed by the superintendent. they have almost no real say-so in the actual budget process. their role is to appoint excellent people to plan good budgets. while the blame lies with the board for approval of the budget, the lion's share of the fault lies with the people who planed the budget to begin with: the superintended and her CFO. if they fail is securing people with good financial sense, they must find another who can do that job.