--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In New York City there is a push to tie in student achievement with
tenure for new teachers. If after three years a teacher cannot show
improvement in the test scores of the children that he is teaching,
he will be denied tenure.
thats all well and good, but this is not nyc, you have to play by new
jerey rules which suck ,, 3 years and a day and their here for your
life you want to change the rules talk to your state reps. but your
wasting your time the njea is to strong to be taken on,
>
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycheech" <asburycheech@>
> wrote:
> > thank you, for keeping us informed, the two serious problems, are
> monsters, can you share more information on either, especially the
> second one? or will we have to let it play out and read about it in
> the papers? is the audit and its recommendations available to the
> public or do we have to wait to you vote on your corrective action
> plan? easy for me to speculate, i shouldnt but i will someone NO
MANY
> SOMEONES were asleep or burying their heads in the sand for these
two
> events to happen, i am not saying bd. members, i am saying
> administrators, notice the s for plural no one person no two people
> could pull this off, without help, bd. members are only as good as
> their administrators, who are suppose to be keeping the bd.
informed,
> again many did not do this , no excuses go after them all even the
> ones who knew were not part of it but did not bring it to your
> attention. again thank you, good luck, on what i see as not a happy
> or joyful several months trying to straighten this mess up.
>
> > To keep you informed on the latest:
> > Last night, Thursday, February 1, the Asbury Park Board of
> > Education had a special meeting in which very important business
> took
> > place. First, the board voted to accept the annual internal audit
> > conducted by Rick Gartz. By the way, that doesn't mean all board
> > members liked it, but rather that it was formally received by the
> > board. The audit found at least 23 very serious deficiencies,
> among
> > them two serious problems found by other State agencies. I will
> > explain in a moment, but there is attached to the audit, as there
> is
> > required to be, a "corrective action plan", which was also
approved
> > by the board. The board was asked to "digest" the audit and its
> > findings and continue discussion at the next meeting. The other
> two
> > reports formally accepted by the board last night are the two I
> > referenced above. One states that the annual report filed with
the
> > State every year on or about October 15 (called the ASSA
reportâ€"I'm
> > not sure what the acronym means exactly) reporting the number of
> > students has been inflated for several years. That, of course, is
> a
> > serious allegation, and there is lots of evidence to back it up.
> > That alone will cost the district several millions of dollars in
> > state aid that must be recouped. The other report the board
> accepted
> > contains extremely serious allegations that some person or
persons
> > has/have been "circumventing" the bidding laws by having one
> company
> > form subsidiary companies so that in no case is the bidding
> threshold
> > ($21,000) met or exceeded. If true, and there is plenty of
> evidence
> > to support the allegations, this is tantamount to the same
offense
> > for which people are now serving time. The State office of
> > compliance is sending the matter on to the state Attorney
General's
> > office. Both of those reports also have a "corrective action
plan"
> > attached to them. As a member of the board of ed, I do not speak
> for
> > the board, but these reports are "distressing" as my fellow board
> > member Greg Brewington said last night. They also present a great
> > opportunity, in my opinion, to bring the matter of
> > misfeasance/malfeasance to a head, and expose a decade of
> corruption
> > when the business of the school system was far removed from the
> > business of education.
> >
> >
>
> > Frank D'Alessandro
> >
>
>
>
>
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