Pixiq

Lets send Carlos to interview him...

Well said. He needs to get back to teaching finger painting and leave the adult jobs to adults.

You should change your name to notliterate. The reporter/photog had permission to be on property for a news story. Since the school was privatized, the public school district spokesman was also a guest, and therefore has no authority to order her to stop videoing.

That is not quite correct. The private company is not renting or buying the public school property. They are hiring the schools administrators and controlling the selection of the teachers at the school. Therefore it is still PUBLIC Property.

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/official_gra...

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/clemente/

So the failed School District Board of Directors stays, the failed School District Administrators stays, the failed School Administrators go to another school in the District, and the failed teachers at the school go to another school within the District. Everyone that has failed gets to keep their job and go to another school and create the same problem all over again.

The only positive outcome from all of this is that perhaps the failed School Board and District Administrators can watch and maybe copy what the private administrators do (if they succeed). The cost for this is 125% of the positions that the private company hires their own folks at.

He is probably out there calling the district administrators - his bosses telling them that the jig is up and the reporter is sooner or later going to find out that the property tax payers supporting the district are going to figure out that they are getting hosed by paying twice to get the kids educated.

That is the whole thing. The reporter wanted to attend the parents meeting where they were probably talking around the subject - rather than hearing that the district board of directors and administrators screw up - could not run the school effectively, and wound up contracting the job out to this private company.

They did not want to be on camera saying that they had failed and could not do what they were being paid to do.

From the article......

http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/clemente/
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"One big challenge for Spreng as a new teacher: the school’s new effort at controlling student behavior in the classrooms and halls.

That’s the area where Clemente was struggling the most, said O’Neill.

“Discipline and behavior were clearly, uniformly seen by parents and faculty as very significant problems within the school,” O’Neill said.

He said when Renaissance first observed the school in the spring, kids were “roaming the hallways” without a hallway pass. There were verbal and sometimes physical assaults.

O’Neill said adults in the school community told him that “kids have been allowed to do whatever they want for years and that there were no consequences.” The behavior was interrupting kids’ ability to learn in class, O’Neill said. “Aberrant behavior” created “a lack of consistent and uniform good instruction,” he observed.

O’Neill said in the last month of school Renaissance “made inroads” in improving behavior by making discipline a top priority. He said Renaissance didn’t change the rules: “We simply had uniform and consistent enforcement of the existing discipline code within the building.”

Garth Harries, the city’s school reform czar, credited a new school leader with helping in that effort. Frank Costanzo, an assistant principal at Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School, stepped in as interim principal toward the end of the school year after the departing Williams went out on medical leave, Harries said.

O’Neill has said Renaissance plans to bring in a Positive Behavior Support system, in which kids are rewarded for doing good deeds—and have a clear set of consequences for bad behavior.

All the staff who’ve been hired so far will be sent next week to a Responsive Classroom training, which O’Neill described as “a way of addressing behaviors and creating a culture of respect.”

O’Neill said when discipline problems emerge, he expects there to be “a lot more interaction between head of school and students as well as with their parents and guardians” than there was last year."
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Essentially they are running a mild manner Marine Corp boot camp to change the kids - and get some learning and discipline started among the kids. Something that the prior administrators did not know how to do.