A review this weekend into my file of the Plainfield school district's Corrective Action Plans (CAP) brought back the one that was adopted by the school board on April 13, 2010. This April 2010 CAP is the one that was developed under the district's former superintendent in response, mainly, to the hiring of two employees that were found lacked the proper educational qualifications and certifications. (OFAC Report)
Little was commented back then about the need for the district to take a good, in depth, long review of ALL district certifications and job titles. Ah! Distractions.
18 months later the need for action on the Corrective Action Plan still exists.
But what makes this situation unique is that the previous school board adopted a Corrective Action Plan and delivered it to the state (I hope) and the district's current superintendent and school board have failed to act on it.
This is simply, in my opinion, a defiance to the state's Office of Fiscal Accountability and Compliance.
And here I was thinking of helping the school board get their act together with the job titles/certification mess. Don't need to. Everything that needs to be done is spelled out at the April 13th, 2010 Corrective Action Plan (p.15) and which was written by Plainfield's former superintendent days before his arrest for charges that were later dropped.
2 comments:
If Education Law was followed and ENFORCED, there would be no need for crony charters, vouchers, SES, NCLB, RTTT or any other vehicle to take control (&$$) away from the hometown and parents!
It seems that WELL-PAID government connivers (local, state & fed) will stop at nothing to do as they please for themselves and their cronies (on the payroll and salesfolk/lobbyists)...
Thank you, Maria! You should be superintendent! Imagine the resources our children would rightly enjoy if Maria was our superintendent of schools!!
Public School Districts work when organized and law abiding people run them!...
I thought we sent our board members to workshops which taught them about the law and regulations.
Oh well, now it looks like we need remedial courses for our board!
Or, maybe they will all resign... because, if we "ignored" OFAC, it seems likely that something mighty ugly and costly will be HITTING THE FAN and the papers, again.
BTW, which district administrators deal directly with the NJ Office of Fiscal Accountability and Compliance?????? Hummm?
8:21,
Thanks for the comment (and the pitch about me being SI, couldn't be, I don't have the education). I agree 100% that if districts in general were well run then we parents wouldn't be looking for alternatives. It is a sad thing that poorly run districts help divide even more a community. Anyway. I am intrigued by your last observation. Is it the superintendent that deals with OFAC?
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