🚨 WTF Alert 🚨
Time for a thread on the Jara regime’s relationship with truth & transparency
Regarding teacher attrition,
yesterday in the Las Vegas Sun,
Superintendent Jesus Jara allegedly claimed:
“….CCSD was seeing normal, not accelerated, attrition this year.” #WTF
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Jara’s CCSD has had trouble w/ teacher workforce reality for a while
In March, CCSD told News 3 they were only short 77 teachers. #WTF
REALITY: CCSD started advertising current year vacancies as next year's positions.
Months earlier they told the RJ they were short 850
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At Jara’s State of the Schools speech, he said the proficiency of ALL students would go up by 7% points.
5 DAYS LATER they released a report with their latest data indicating ALL students & ethnicity groups were projected to go DOWN.
#WTF
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At that same State of the Schools speech,
Superintendent Jara wanted us to believe CCSD's low proficiency rates were the community’s problem for declining expectations, lack of involvement, and years of neglect.
Guess who didn’t believe that...
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Before Supt Jara claimed CCSD was going in the wrong direction for years,
Candidate for Superintendent, Jesus Jara, praised the direction CCSD was going & claimed he would “Accelerate the Momentum”
Candidate Jesus Jara would be so disappointed in Superintendent Jesus Jara
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We’re not the only ones who have noticed Jara’s troubled relationship with the truth.
The Governor has called Jara out for misleading the community.
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The RJ called for Jara to be fired because they didn’t believe he was accurate when he said he had a “real clear focus on being No. 1 district for kids.”
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Henderson City Councilman Dan Shaw, lambasted CCSD leadership because the City Council couldn’t get answers from Jara’s CCSD.
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North Las Vegas Mayor, John Lee called out Jara’s CCSD for not following state law.
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Jara has a long history in Vegas of having a troubled relationship with the truth and failing to build trust & confidence with vital partners.
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Despite Jara’s troubled past, we were still SHOCKED to see in the LV Sun that he allegedly claimed:
“….CCSD was seeing normal, not accelerated, attrition this year.”
So, let's look at the FACTS...
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CCSD puts out monthly staffing counts.
This is aggregated data THEY put out.
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CCSD aggregated & reported this data, we just put it in a chart
The drop in licensed staffing counts is happening WHILE CCSD is also hiring people!
Many more are leaving than what is represented in this line.
Last year was the TOP LINE!
This year is the BOTTOM LINE! #WTF
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Every regular Board Meeting CCSD posts a report of all the teaching/licensed staff that leave CCSD.
We’ve downloaded that report from EVERY Board Meeting for the last decade.
This is data THEY put out.
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This chart shows how the names in those reports (prior tweet) add up from August through July
This school year, the one Jara allegedly claims does NOT have accelerated teacher attrition, is in red #WTF
School years 2011-12 through 2020-21 are in grey
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We’ve heard Jara apologists say this data (which is their data) is biased.
Not sure what they mean.
Perhaps they think we cherry-picked the time period???
Let’s try looking at the data in a different way...
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Instead of us picking a time period, here's a rolling time period
Each point shows the # of separation announcements from that month + the 11 that preceded it
It's a rolling 12-month sum. No bias. Just transparency.
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If you’re a teacher,
& you see this crazy teacher attrition data,
& your Supt says teacher attrition is normal & not accelerated
you might think he does NOT have a plan
Boy, would you be wrong!
#WTF
#TheEmporerHasNoClothes
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CCSD has a multi-million-dollar data team
CCSD has a multi-million-dollar HR team
CCSD has a multi-million-dollar Communications team
WTF is this?
#HotAir #VegasSummer
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How do you pay over $430,000 a year for a Superintendent to lead a district with a teacher staffing problem and
AFTER 4 school years his NEXT step is to CONSIDER incentives???
That’s the NEXT step?
They haven’t even started to CONSIDER?
#Bamboozled
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He’s been the Superintendent for 4 YEARS!
His NEXT step is to COMMIT to building the capacity of new teachers.
How has he not committed to that for 4 years???
WTF, have they been doing to new teachers for the last 4 years?
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Superintendent Jara is going to optimize internal staff to support the retention of existing staff.
But WHO is going to support the retention of the optimized staff???
#NextNextStep
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Next step, continue the old step.
#DontMarketItToVeteranTeachers
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No measurable outcomes.
No goals of what impact any of this may have.
No timelines of when any of this may OR may not happen.
Million $ data team
Million $ HR team
Million $ Comm team
#WatchYourWallet
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As long as there are buyers, the snake oil sales will continue.
There is NO plan.
There is NO leadership.
The children are the victims!
#DontBeFooled
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