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Conversation with My Mother-in-Law

August 19, 2015 By douglascountyparents

Conversation with My Mother-in-Law

Posted on Facebook by Debbie Gurley (re-posted with permission) We went on a long walk last weekend and my mother-in-law asked me: “I know you are very upset about what is happening at [my grandson’s] school. Can you explain to me exactly what IS happening?” me: “Well, it really is such a hard thing to […]

Filed Under: 2015, General Overview, Loss of Public Input, Parent Voice, Pay for performace, Staff morale, Wasteful Spending Tagged With: Fagen

Fagen Performance Evaluation

July 16, 2015 By douglascountyparents

Fagen Performance Evaluation

Superintendent Fagen’s costly mistakes have a negative effect on the children of DCSD, yet in Dr. Fagen’s latest employment review the Board of Education gave her the highest rating possible and a $16,000 bonus. Is this good business sense? Details on the $4.2 million penalty can be found HERE. Parent analysis of the District transparency […]

Filed Under: 2015, Fagen, Memes, News, Pay for performace, Staff turnover Tagged With: evaluation, Fagen, superintdendent

Was it worth it?

October 16, 2014 By douglascountyparents

Was it worth it?

Since 2010, the district has spent over $12,000,000 (so far) developing and implementing a Pay for Performance system (that voters actually turned down). The DCSD Board and admin said they wanted a way to identify the ineffective teachers. This extremely expensive system showed us that we had 9 (yes, 9) ineffective teachers. Meanwhile 256 teachers […]

Filed Under: 2014, Loss of Educational Opportunities, Memes, Parent Voice, Pay for performace, Staff turnover, Teacher Evaluations, Wasteful Spending Tagged With: p4p, teacher turnover

DCSD BoE Needs to Rethink Priorities

August 20, 2014 By douglascountyparents

DCSD BoE Needs to Rethink Priorities

BOE Meeting Public Comment Aug 19, 2014 Jennifer Robertson, Parent In 2012, the 6 of 8 high school schedule was proposed by the district and approved by the BOE as a way to save 3.6 million dollars per year. In addition, cuts were made to middle schools, the sick bank was terminated, and capital needs […]

Filed Under: Central Admin Costs, High Shool Schedule, Loss of Educational Opportunities, Parent Voice, Pay for performace, Public Comments to BoE, Wasteful Spending Tagged With: 2011 Bond, InspirEd, Robertson, software

How much is this costing us?

May 16, 2014 By douglascountyparents

How much is this costing us?

Just How Much is “Reinventing Education” Costing and Who is Even Asking? Where are the Checks and Balances? Is this Really in the Best Interest of the Students of Douglas County? by Julie Keim, parent Larkspur, CO Parents and community members have been reminding the BoE of their fiduciary responsibility in the last couple years […]

Filed Under: 2014, Budgeting, Parent Voice, Pay for performace, Public Comments to BoE, Wasteful Spending Tagged With: innaccurate budgeting, InspirEd, Julie Keim, misleading public

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