Jerry Weast doesn't want to tiptoe around serious issues.
He wants all stakeholders at the table. (That is the unions,
no mention of parents.)
Watch Weast's presentation in the video below at the October 1, 2009 CED press conference on the release of their new report.
If Superintendent Weast craves "controversy" why doesn't he set up a meeting with the Monocacy Elementary School* community and have a face to face conversation about why he wants to close their school?
*Monocacy Elementary School is a school in the actual school system that Superintendent Weast is being paid $489,763 to run. Real students, real community, real controversy, right in his own backyard. Is Jerry Weast "fixin" to meet with this community or is he "fixin" to just travel to Arizona and ignore this community?
Highlights from the video of Weast:
ReplyDelete"The Marshall Plan was easy, Charlie, compared to Education Reform. You don't believe that, the agrarian calendar is still in place, isn't it. (laughter) How's that working for us?"
"Look who's in college- 80% white and asian. How's that going to work for us in our new diverse country?"
"A lot of the tax returns we're filing out of Montgomery County was our wealthy people are done in India. With their accountants there. We've gotta fix this."
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Does Jerry Weast really support Teacher "Pay for Performance?"
ReplyDeleteHe's a Trustee of this "CED."
The "CED" just issued a new report.
The report summary says: "CED believes that performance based pay, pay linked to career paths, and labor-market based pay are desirable elements of a redesigned pay system."
The report even talks about linking teacher pay to test scores.
How's that gonna play out with MCEA, Jerry?
Here's the link to the CED report, that was released at the press conference:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.ced.org/images/library/reports/education/TeacherCQExecSum09.pdf