Chicago Public Schools Doesn't Know How To Choose Principals
Designs for Change claims Chicago Public Schools doesn’t know how to pick good Principals. (Hat tip: Students First).
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Chicago Public School officials have an “abysmal” record at picking principals to invigorate ailing high schools, especially at 20 such schools where reading and math scores sank or showed little progress, a school reform group charged Monday. “I would give them an F,” Donald Moore, executive director of Designs for Change, said of CPS’ success at picking principals in challenging schools. In 2007, the Designs for Change study indicated, only 4.7 percent to 22.7 percent of students in the 20 high schools in which CPS controlled principal selection passed state reading tests. Zero to 12.8 percent passed state math tests. ———————————————– The study also charged that only 2 percent of Chicago high school principals were given unsatisfactory ratings by their supervisors in 2006, even though 85 percent of their schools failed to meet state progress targets. Gilligan said several of those supervisors have since retired, and the principal rating system considers things the state progress target doesn’t. |
And we wonder why the public government schools aren’t successful at teaching our children. The leadership of CPS make poor choices for principals. They can’t even review their principals properly. It is not a stretch to say that these poor principals can’t evaluate or choose their teachers properly either.
This years crop of principals and staff choices won’t help these statistics either. See
- Convicted Felon abortionist is Chicago Public School principal
- Principal Accused of Stealing $35,000
- Fired Cop accused of misconduct hired as school security chief
- Student injured by school worker
It’s not like CPS didn’t know there were issues with their principals. Here are 2 stories about he situation:
- Chicago Public Schools Target Struggling Principals
On Wednesday, the Board of Education is set to approve the policy, which creates a system of “support and remediation” for contract principals, who rarely are threatened with dismissal for performance because it is costly to break their four-year contracts.
- From 2004, Chicago principals get graded
Although half of teachers responded positively to the survey, giving principals As and Bs, 17.3 percent gave Cs, and one-third (33.5 percent) gave out negative scores of Ds and Fs.
