From the article:
Spend enough time with principals and they probably will tell you that central office "support" isn't always as critical to achievement as the central office seems to believe. "I'll be very honest," said Mike Durso, a former high school principal and current school board member in Montgomery County, "if it boils down to a staff person assigned to a school, or assigned in another capacity that might have impact, but not assigned to the school, I'm going to take the classroom teacher every time." It's not that there aren't great managers and mentors at the central office level, Durso said, "but we may be entering a period of time where some of that is a luxury."
Unfortunately, Board member Durso is not on the secret committee that is setting the FY11 Operating Budget right now. He won't get to pick which positions to cut and which to save. Those decisions are made by the Unions, MCCPTA and Weast's pick of administrators.
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