Monday, November 22, 2010

Principal bonuses awarded

From the PG:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10326/1105240-53.stm

13 comments:

Mark Rauterkus said...

The article does not have all the #s and names, sadly.

Questioner said...

Last year each principal and the bonus were listed.

Anonymous said...

Though the website has gotten some slight redesign, I could not locate a press release on the district site.

Questioner said...

Probably, it would need to be requested from the Parent Hotline (with up to a 30 day delay) or the reporter might share it. Or maybe the Tribune will publish the list.

Anonymous said...

Most of the principals named for bonuses in this article were veteran principals.

Did any of the PELA principals receive bonuses?

If not why not?

Only two ALA principals were named for bonuses___why?

Millions were target for ALAs and PELA_____does the lack of bonuses revel a lack of progress and/or competence? Explain.

Questioner said...

The article apparently focuses on some of the top bonus recipients. The complete list of awards was not reported by the PG.

Anonymous said...

The Achievement Gap at Colfax ALA was 47%, the highest in the District___clearly that is not a criteria for a bonus! Why?

The Achievement Gap at Murray ALA is 20% in Reading where proficiency went from 33 to 39%____with 60% of the students NOT proficient in reading. In Math "proficiency" dropped from 48% to 46% with 54% of the students NOT proficient.

Did Allderdice, Brashear, Langley, Peabody, Oliver, Carrick, Westinghouse receive bonuses?????

Proficiency dropped/decreased in all of these schools this year.

Questioner said...

It seems like the criteria for bonuses might change from year to year. It is not even clear that criteria are decided in advance. From the article:

"For bonuses this round, the district considered which schools are high need and therefore are more difficult to turn around."

- So, the Murray principal might have received a higher bonus because the school has a higher percentage of low income students.

Anonymous said...

It's great to see a large bonus go to someone like Principal Rucki, who tells it like it is.

Wounded said...

I find it interesting how the system is set up. Administrators are to be motivated by bonuses.

But teachers are to be motivated by fear, the fear of being targeted.

It reminds me of the old Kirk Douglas WWI movie Paths of Glory.

When the battle went well, the generals got medals and promotions.

When the battle didn't go so well, a few foot soldiers were chosen essentially at random and taken out and shot.

Anonymous said...

What about the part of the article where Roosevelt stated that the district did not even evaluate principals before he showed up. Talk about going from 0 to 60! Is this the third or fourth year of bonuses? We went from not evaluating principals, to giving them bonuses based off of an evaluation system that was created in one or two years.

Questioner said...

Is it really an evaluation system, and how effective can it be, if the criteria are so ambiguous?

Anonymous said...

Tells it like it is? You must be joking. On one hand, perhaps she needs a lesson in public speaking and diction, on the other--she is the perfect principal for this regime. Nuff said.