As many of you are aware Delaware is receiving $100 million dollars via the Race to The Top grant. DOE keeps $50 million to piss away on creating more DOE jobs like the ones needed for Delaware DOE’s new department called “Turnaround Department.” The other $50 million will be allocated to the school districts and charter schools to implement their own RTTT plans. However, Jack Markell now tells the districts they need to set aside money to pay for district level Data Coaches asoicated with DCAS, the state’s new student testing program. Looks like “take it back Jack” is bent on fucking our local school districts any way he can.
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@GovernorMarkell is a real treat!
This is because they all agreed to do it in the MOU they signed. Remember that DDOE got all of the stakeholders lined up for the “great transformation” ahead of the RTTT. Ahead of even filing the application to USDOE, we had the Mass Insight team aworkin’ hard with Lil, Dan, Paul, Skipper and John Taylor to lock everyone into the deal.
The lockin included how the data coaches would be compensated. I recall being disturbed that the Title 1 schools would be required to pay for the data coaches out of those federal funds while the other schools would have to come up with the money in their budgets. That deal was signed sealed and delivered by February 2010 wasn’t it?
Data Coaches? Great Transformation?
May I ask…Why not RE-PURPOSE the former Delaware State Quality Award – over 350 volunteer Baldrige Examiners and resources – to provide Data Coaching and much, much more?
I quick check of Mass Insight suggest that they are aware of the Baldrige Education Excellence Criteria..my attempts to provide an executive briefing
to Dr. Lowery, Mrrs. Cruces, Herdman, Taylor, and Skip have failed.
Imagine the possibilities in collaborating…cost savings AND sustainability!
Greg, I hope you appreciated my snark, there.
Are your 350 volunteers living in the state of Delaware?
Nancy,
Moving forward is a good thing and you raise an interesting point.
Championed by then Gov. Tom Carper, Delaware – along with 40 others – has supported a state level quality award program aligned to the national Baldrige program as I’ve mentioned previously.
The invitation list exceeds 350 professional with over half residing – and voting – locally with the major percentage in NCC. The rest may reside in PA, MD, NJ but demonstrate their civic responsibilities as they work in Delaware in manufacturing, health care, service, government, and non-profit.
Quality Education leading states such as: NC, SC, MD, OH, TX, NM, VT, and NJ provide “train the trainer” sessions, in collaboration with companies, annually to help build capacity. Over the years, we have invited Top Talent to inspire and stimulate this critical work and have invested multiple millions of dollars and, in fact, Gov Minner had doubled the “First State Quality Improvement Fund” to further foster participation to the Gov, Carper’s legacy.
So, here’s the question; Why invite others to provide direction and coaching and not include this valuable resource? In order to realize increasingly levels of performance excellence and innovation, we need to focus all our talent and dismiss “silo thinking” and all row together…anything less is folly.
New strategy: ignore Greg and maybe he will go away.