Administrative Failures

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Administrative Failures

Written by WR FIRST

Sunday, 14 September 2008 18:35

The WRCS Board of education supported the administrative failures of the superintendent, school principals, supervisors, and directors. Below is an inconclusive list of vialotions of policy, law, contract, ethics and integrity:

Finance	Curriculum	HR	Stakeholder Relations	Special Education	Leadership & Governance
Did not include public on 2009 planning for Deficit Elimination Plan	No status report or board presentation by Supt./Curriculum Director	Violation of the Equal Opp. Emply. Act (EOE)	Failed to engage community, staff and students consistently	Violation of student Individual Education Plans (IEP)	Supt authorized dismissal of Step 3 grievance because of a board member's presence in the meeting
Did not provide detailed budget information, status or progress to the public	No assessment of current curriculum and/or proposed changes to curriculum by Supt	Discriminated against African American, Caucasian, Male, and Union employees, as well as age discrimination	Failed to investigate and analyze root causes of discipline issues in the district	Failure to comply with State of Michigan IEP mandates (corrections)	Failure to communicate with parents and staff upon inquiry or attempts to contact the Supt
Proposed exuberant salary increases for administrators not included in the bargained salary scale (for union administrators)	No inclusion of staff input to curriculum sought by Supt	Failure to maintain environments conducive to uninhibited teaching/learning (maintained an environment of fear and retaliation)	Failed to return phone calls and correspondence that stakeholders placed to offices	Failure to provide all prescribed services to students	Failure to set up measures for programs, in order to discuss data and ensuing decisions.Threatening and bullying employees at large. No Open Door policy.
Approved unnecessary deficit spending	Failure to research, provide analysis and recommendation for classes	Failed to provide support research/ documentation on the impact of organizational and structural changes in middle school and high school	Violated district policy by providing preferential treatment and 'no charge services' to an external organization by not providing the same service equally, to all impacted groups	Failure to ensure that support staff were properly trained in handling extreme special education students	Failure to evaluate staff in a timely manner. Failure to safeguard employee rights. Failure to allow employees and students due process
Failure to provide adequate/detailed supporting rationales for major purchases (+$5K)	Failed to provide instructional leadership to staff	Failure to provide improvement plan for all employees assessed at a "less than satisfactory" rating	Failed to execute due diligence in important district matters	Failure to confirm testing protocols/procedure for all staff	Established poor communication with community
Failure to provide cost and benefit analysis for the removal of, or addition of programs in the district	Failure to provide strategy for classes where there are not enough textbooks to support learning for ALL students	Established and maintained an unfriendly, non-professional, dictatorial environment	Failed to provide due process to staff, students and community	Failure to provide adequate administrative coverage during summer	Unequal treatment of employees (i.e. in discipline, praise, acknowledgement)
Failure to provide health care coverage employee orientation that was clear and thorough	Publicly denouncing teachers as "liar" – stating they cheated on tests to misrepresent student scores / achievement	Failure to provide adequate, fair and equally accessible leadership and mentorship to administrators and staff	Failed to allow adequate public input to superintendent decisions via stakeholders/town hall meetings	Failure to inform and get parental consensus on changes to IEPs	Failure to unify employees and move forward together with unified goals, vision.Failure to make the office of Supt accessible
Failed to develop inclusive contingency plans to address declined student enrollment impact	Contracted out curriculum work that was to be completed by the Curr. Dir.	Provided inconsistent, biased and prejudicial treatment to staff	Failed to answer correspondence and communication from public / stakeholders	Failure to maintain safe, conducive environment for all SE learners	Failure to act in a timely manner to resolve IEP violations and corrective actions per State of MI
		Displayed and supported anti-union behaviors and practices		Failure to include staff on relative IEP meetings	Failing to represent full truth in media / news stories
		Failure to manage and mitigate grievances		Failure to properly evaluate/observe staff	Failing to disclose Illinois residency
		Engaged in retaliatory practices and behaviors towards staff		Failed to allow Principal participation in hiring process involving school staff	Failing to disclose membership on Harvey, Illinois District 152 school board
		Failure to assess and evaluate staff in timely manner			Failure to bring full accountability to office of Supt
		Failed to take responsibility for actions and inconsistencies of the position and subordinates			Publishes communication that reflects biases and threatening tones, slander and unsubstantiated accusations against employees and board members
		Failed to communicate the hiring and separation (less than week on job) of employees			Failure to improve HS graduation rate
					Discriminated against elem. Student by removing him from student population, isolating him without legal justification
					Failure to include employees in the decision-making process
					Upheld questionable behavior by HS Principal and Sub. Teacher
					Publicly disrespected employees for purposes of humiliation and demoralization
					Abuses authority by unnecessarily placing letters of reprimand in employees files for frivolous and assumed acts
					Threatening to terminate employees for no apparent reason / no rationale
					Devising and enforcing unapproved policy for the purposes of inflicting harm on employees and public

Last Updated ( Friday, 19 September 2008 09:33 )