Education "Leadership" Grasping at Straws

Grasping at straws; 2. trying to find some way to succeed when nothing you choose is likely to work.

NMPED Secretary Veronica Garcia has found ten schools that are apparently "doing it right" and thinks they can be a model for failing schools to emulate. Never mind that "doing it right" cannot be qualified or quantified.

A school that "works", a school that is "doing it right",
has a synergy that cannot be simply copied and created at another school.

APS Board Member Delores Griego says dividing APS into two or more fiefdoms will fix what is wrong in the APS.

Schools that are stifled by layers of administration, will not be less stifled if the layers of bureaucrats are reduced from four to three.

The solution that will work includes;

• Give individual schools their share of resources and decision making power.
• Allow schools to write their own policies to address their own issues.
• Hire administrators to administer those policies, and to assure compliance with appropriate laws and regulations.
• Delegate power and resources, eliminate the layers and layers of bureaucracy that needlessly consume resources and make global decisions to address local problems.
  

End wistful thinking that there are administrators
who are smarter than all of us combined,

and we just haven't located enough of them yet.