Thread by @DataInsightPart

⏰⏰Attention⏰⏰

We want to alert you to one of the largest operational blunders in Nevada education history…

And what it means for our kids!

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#NVed

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When Jara's contract was renewed & he said we need to focus on stability, did anybody tell him what that means?

Because CCSD just lost more principals & admin last school year than ever!

Smashing the previous record set the prior year under Supt Jara!

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2019-20 school year saw a record number of administrators leave CCSD.

Jara’s response… let’s PAY more to leave.

Last year CCSD paid for principals/administrators to retire early, and they took the money & ran!

Just how bad was this operational move...

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A week before school started, 8/2/2021,
the School Directory on CCSD’s website showed that there were still 77 Principal and Assistant Principal vacancies.

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In early 2021, we showed school admin was the largest draw on classroom teachers.

In other words, the teacher shortage is amplified by a lack of external recruitment of administrators.

What happened after CCSD paid administrators to leave?

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We’ve been tracking staffing vacancies in CCSD over this last month.

As administrator vacancies have been going down this month, teacher/licensed vacancies have been going up. And continue to rise!

It gets worse...

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In the middle of a national teacher shortage, Jara decided to SPEND MONEY to MAKE IT WORSE.

Worse for our leaders.
Worse for our teachers.
Worse for our kids!

#TeacherShortageOnSteriods

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Maybe, we've got it all wrong.

Maybe paying admin to retire early was actually a focused effort to get rid of ineffective leaders and break up the good ol’ boy network.

Maybe they were all bad leaders.

Let’s investigate!

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The performance framework rates schools on a scale of 1-100 & designates a Star Rating (y-axis in chart)

We’ve created a risk rating on the x-axis
Farther to the right = more barriers to education (poverty, language, transiency)

Due to COVID, 2018-19 is the most recent data

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Each dot represents an elementary school in Nevada

The blue line is the avg performance for a school in NV given the school’s risk rating

Dots above the blue line are beating the avg.

The farther above the blue line a dot is the more they are outperforming similar schools

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Here’s the performance of some of the principals CCSD just paid to retire early

All 10+ years experience as a principal

All run schools SIGNIFICANTLY OUTPERFORMING their peers

Doesn’t look like CCSD focused on removing bad leaders

Let's take a closer look at Lake ES...

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Lake ES:
- 100% FRL
- Double CCSD’s ELL rate

Lake was SIGNIFICANTLY OUTPERFORMING comparable schools across NV!

Last year was Mr. McHargue’s 20th yr as principal at Lake ES

We PAID for the LONGEST SERVING elementary principal in CCSD to LEAVE!!!

In Middle School...

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Ann Schiller was the principal of Fremont MS for a decade.

100% FRL
Over 1 in 4 ELL

Compared to similar schools, Fremont was the highest performing MS in CCSD.

CCSD just paid for their HIGHEST PERFORMING Middle School principal to LEAVE!!!

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Even though parents & staff love their school & don’t trust the District, CCSD is being run like the opposite were true

CCSD is NOT listening to parents & school staff.

Now there are:
- Growing teacher/licensed staff separations
- Record principal/admin separations

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CCSD is driving out some of our LONGEST-SERVING, HIGHEST-PERFORMING school leaders when we need them most!

Decades building trust & respect in their communities.
Decades beating the odds & improving kids' lives.

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This is a call to action:

- Transparency around all staffing data; standing Board agenda item

- Accountability for the Superintendent around staffing (it's in Focus 2024)

- Value community input & bring back the Districtwide Survey (it's the law)

Stay tuned for our next investigation in the coming week.

And be sure to read the previous call to action on CCSD’s teacher shortage: