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We need an org. chart — and a new School Board/administrative culture
June 15, 2016
The Polk County School District has a $1.3 billion budget. That’s billion. With a B. The people who direct that budget work primarily at the central Bartow Office. But good luck trying to figure out who has responsibility for what in spending your education money. Good luck figuring out which human beings actually supervise which human beings. The $1.3 billion…
Bartow Horror Story: the catastrophic failure of Polk’s testing and student data system
June 12, 2016
Nothing illustrates the comprehensive rot at the Polk School district administrative and leadership level (talking about the Bartow office, not principals at schools) as powerfully as the failure of the Local Instructional Information System (LIIS) project in the last two years.
