kitchen table math, the sequel: FOIL requests
Showing posts with label FOIL requests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FOIL requests. Show all posts

Thursday, April 9, 2009

up, up, and away

I've been attending budget forums.

Last week I learned that Irvington, with approximately 1900 students (& falling), used to have 5 administrators in total. That was it, the sum total. Five. This was a little over 10 years ago.

Today we have 14 administrators plus another 3 tenured teachers, who, technically speaking, are not administrators but perform the functions of administrators:
  • 2 "Teaching-Learning Facilitators" (aka instructional coaches)
  • 1 Chief Information Officer/Technology Coordinator.

Number one: who has a tenured Information Officer?

Number two: does the title "Chief Information Officer" suggest to you that are missing an Assistant Information Officer or two?

Number three: in a district where parents are FOILing information right and left,* what exactly is the Chief Information officer actually doing?

Bonus Points: I would trade a Chief Information Officer for a search engine on edline.


* 3 FOIL requests this school year that I know of