“It quite literally is an ivory tower,” Taylor told a group of about a dozen people who attended a District 18 Democratic Breakfast Club meeting Monday morning at the Parkway Deli in Silver Spring.
Just about two months shy of his one-year anniversary on July 1, Taylor said he is hoping to be the leader who can shift the district from an ‘ivory tower mentality’ into one focused on decision-making at the school level.
“We have talented principals, we have talented educators, and when decision-making is closer to what’s happening in the classroom, the decisions tend to get a lot better because the context is there,” Taylor said. “And when decisions are removed from principals, and when 90% of the decision-making ends up in the ivory tower, it tends not to be as good.”..
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After one attendee asked about funding going toward counsel for litigation of special education cases, Taylor said it was some of the “worst money spent” in the current budget.
ReplyDeleteIf MCPS views itself as an 'ivory tower' then MC is Emerald City.
ReplyDeleteIf MCPS is an 'ivory tower' then MC is the "Emerald Palace."
ReplyDeleteThen they need to stop hiring so many directors and associates who work in the ivory tower!
ReplyDeleteThe lofty County Council claims to hold the purse strings. . .
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