Goodloe-Johnson Applies to be Florida Education Commissioner (along with 18 other people)
Dr. Goodloe-Johnson continues to seek employment this time in Tampa Bay, Florida. The deadline was May 25th but they are thinking of extending the period to Monday, June 6th.
The Commissioner of Education in Florida is the equivalent to the State Superintendent in Washington State. He/she reports to the Governor as an agency head. The salary range is $195k-275k.
Reading through the qualifications, I noted a few areas where Dr. Goodloe-Johnson might run into trouble:
• Inspires trust, possesses self-confidence, and models high standards of integrity.
• Possesses excellent communication skills and can effectively establish dialogue with all stakeholder groups.
• Is a “team player” who inspires others by example.
• Creates an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect, open channels of communication and shared decision-making.
The TampaBay.com site says this:
We provided a partial list on Thursday evening. Here are the additional names provided this afternoon:
Scary. Or, that blog also has the bead on the Broad Foundation's Superintendent Charm School.
The Commissioner of Education in Florida is the equivalent to the State Superintendent in Washington State. He/she reports to the Governor as an agency head. The salary range is $195k-275k.
Reading through the qualifications, I noted a few areas where Dr. Goodloe-Johnson might run into trouble:
• Inspires trust, possesses self-confidence, and models high standards of integrity.
• Possesses excellent communication skills and can effectively establish dialogue with all stakeholder groups.
• Is a “team player” who inspires others by example.
• Creates an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect, open channels of communication and shared decision-making.
The TampaBay.com site says this:
We provided a partial list on Thursday evening. Here are the additional names provided this afternoon:
- Oleh Bula, an Orlando charter school principal
- Edward Hashey Jr., Manatee County school teacher
- Maria Goodloe-Johnson, former Seattle schools superintendent (dismissed in a financial scandal in March)
- Ellen Ryan, Nassau County school principal
- Scott Whittle, Leon County school teacher
Scary. Or, that blog also has the bead on the Broad Foundation's Superintendent Charm School.
Comments
Just the facts will help keep her off the "short list" or even being called back for a second interview... A link to this blog should do the trick...
Arrggghhh...!!
Just because she had issues here, doesn't mean you have the right to determine where she can work for the rest of her life. Nor do you have privy to anything she's done to improve her professional standing/skills since.
People grow through failure. I bet 80% of the current workforce would be unemployed if they were dogged down by a group of folks hell bent on ensuring they never worked again because of mistakes.
I'm not defending her actions here in SPS, I'm just saying you all don't have the right to play with someone else's livelihood like you're the keepers of all that's right.
Focus on what's important--our SPS students.
Off-topic, but a good article on TFA can be found here:
http://allthingsedu.blogspot.com/2011/05/teach-for-america-from-service-group-to.html
-CT
In general, I'm not sure why people have so much sympathy for executives getting another chance after they screw up. Executives are in a position of enormous power and bear a heavy responsibility for their impact on so many people's lives. The idea that it is about them, that they are not easily replaceable, that they can screw up over and over again while they try to "grow through failure" regardless of what wreckage they leave behind is absurd.
- SPS parent
I don't think providing information and perspective on her tenure at Seattle, is equivalent to determining where she can work for the rest of her life.
People grow through failure
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.
It's important to remember that Goodloe-Johnson received a negative evaluation of her ability to provide complete and accurate information to the school board in Charlotte. This is exactly what brought her down here. If the board had taken this as a serious red flag, we might have all been spared considerable grief.
Provide information. Let the employers decide whether she's changed and whether she's worth a risk.
I don't think people should be vindictive or do a lot of name calling, but calling attention to the specific problems she had here, based on their Florida's job requirements, seems important to me. The position she's going for is not just a superintendent of a single district; she wants to set policy for an entire state and I don't believe she has the "vision" for that kind of responsibility.
stu
Given that Florida, like New Jersey, has a governor who made huge cuts to education and would like to privatize entirely, MGJ might be the perfect match. Her record as a liar with a separate agenda might be just what Rick Scott is looking for. He doesn't think state laws apply to him either.
One caution people might consider is the backlash Seattle might eventually get by continuing to sling mud. Don't recall the exactly how that saying goes.
We do want to be able to attract qualified candidates for superintendent in the future after all.
One caution people might consider is the backlash Seattle might eventually get by continuing to sling mud. Don't recall the exactly how that saying goes.
We do want to be able to attract qualified candidates for superintendent in the future after all.
You wrote: "Just because she had issues here, doesn't mean you have the right to determine where she can work for the rest of her life."
The phrase "she had issues here" seems to trivialize her completely inept four year performance in Seattle.
MGJ had a lot more than "issues here" ... check with the SAO's office ... check the data for Seattle's academic performance during her tenure here ... check the damage that resulted from her stay here.
I suggest you consider jumping on the bandwagon to not allow the destruction of any more school systems by this woman. Students anywhere deserve NOT to have MGJ as an education decision-maker.
"To improve a system requires the intelligent application of relevant data" and clearly MGJ never gave the relevant data any consideration. The corporate "Eli Broad" roadmap was her guide and she was backed up by her rubber-stamping board.
We would have a whole lot less problems to tackle in Seattle, if adequate information had been considered from Charlotte, SC. A major problem still comes back again to the head hunter firms that find people like this to be "elite candidates". How much is paid to a firm to propose several clowns for positions and call them elite candidates? Is there a warrantee on such paid service?
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And a Big Tip or Big Crush of the Hat must go to Autocratic Cheryl Chow for Selecting and pushing MGJ upon Seattle.
MGJ was picked prior to the 2007 Board elections that elected the $480,000 four. Reelect No One in 2011.
"One caution people might consider is the backlash Seattle might eventually get by continuing to sling mud. Don't recall the exactly how that saying goes."
Amazing when reporting factual truth is considered slinging mud. This one is definitely not at the level of the holacost denial, but nice try.
Anyone else care to make an argument to bury the truth. No wonder "crappy decisions" are made so often ... with people preferring to discard the relevant data as "slung mud".
2: If the Broad Foundation actually could produce good managers, there might be a place for them in school districts. To bad they have other goald.
"...by a group of folks hell bent on ensuring they never worked again because of mistakes."
I don't think there's group hell-bent on her never working again. This position actually might be a better job for her than actually being a district superintendent (given how little she cares about parents and communities).
But she made some huge errors here and I have a hard time believing that she's changed. But that's for the State of Florida to decide.
I WOULD like to focus on the students but there's always a backlog of cleaning up from one administrator or another. That's what makes it hard to get ahead in this district because there's always some loss of money one way or another. Or some new initiative.
I would love for the day to come when it's about students and academic achievement. But it takes a well-run district to have that kind of laser focus and this is not a well-run district.
You write that we have no right to continue to comment on the ex-superintendent, but that's just not true. For many of us (and, I might add, an increasing number of people who are becoming aware of this issue) it's not just about MGJ, it's about what she represents. She aligned herself with the various pieces that make up the Reform Movement, and because of that she represents them. Many of us are not just trying to get what's best for students here in Seattle, but what's best for ALL students, and it ain't Broad/NWEA/Alliance/Gates/Strategies 360.
MGJ, as representative of the Broad/Gates agenda, will be followed throughout her career by those who are interested in defanging this monster. SHE chose to climb aboard that train; SHE chose to be a minion of the forces of evil, rather than an independent thinker.
So it's not that anyone is necessarily after her, personally, but rather some are after Broad/Gates and she is still one of THEM.
I wonder what sort of ground work is being prepared in Florida for a possible Broad Commissioner...I'm sure they already have their own "Our Schools Coalition" set up, with S360 running it; I'm sure they have been busy agitating for "teacher quality" and calling all the schools "failing." I'm sure they have some sort of "alliance" that is funding their OSC and their S360, using Gates/Broad "grants." I'm sure they have a SEEA, sister corporation to our "non-profit" NWEA, busy pumping out tests to test the teachers...I wonder if MGJ is on the board of that yet?
THAT is what some of us want to make Florida aware of, if they're not already. As I said, many, many people are waking up to this craptitude, and I'm sure there are those in Florida who are doing what they can to cut off the many heads of the hydra. I'll help them if I can, MGJ or no.
Just more evidence that perhaps our Superintendent pay scale is way out of whack with what these *big* jobs pay elsewhere.
Right on .... no doubt the SPS superintendent payscale is "way out of whack" .
Note the state does give districts money for Superintendent .... it is nowhere even close to what Districts are paying Superintendents in Seattle Tacoma etc.
Here is the most recent word I have on NY State...
About Supe pay in NY State.
Note NY State pays teachers a lot more than WA State ... which gives an idea as to how far out of whack .. the Supe salary was and is in Seattle.
Don'y forget the 10% bonus plan..... remember the $5280 bonus for MGJ for meeting around 25% of the goals.
Reelect No one in 2011
that is a good Strategic Plan
No matter what any Sup does there will be fans and there will detractors. If someone can't deal with those facts, they should not have a job working for the public.
Nothing is preventing you from starting your own blog countering what people in Seattle say.
Seriously, why do you need to label actions you don't like as people not focusing on "what is important". You know what is important and what isn't and who should work on what? c'mon.
Dear "thinking of the present..."
so unless people do what you like they're not focusing their energy in positive ways, because you KNOW what should be focused on and what shouldn't be focused on and what is positive and what isn't positive? c'mon.
do both of you realize that you sound like Censors who try to pull the moral high ground stunt as a way to get people to shut up? c'mon.
C'MON
After ten years of teaching, Anderson worked as executive director for Teach for America as well as chief program officer for New Leaders for New Schools. Her credentials, Pallas said, are reminiscent of those of a much more recognizable name in education reform: Michelle Rhee, who formerly headed Washington, D.C.'s public schools.[]In New York, where Anderson served as superintendent for alternative schools, supporters lauded her results-oriented approach that shuttered failing programs, while critics complained about high turnover rates within her schools.
So, sounds like she must be way better than Maria, right?
As to the problems at hand:
Only half of Newark's about 40,000 public school students graduate from high school on time. Even more require remedial coursework upon reaching college. These problems and an achievement gap persist, even despite the relatively high spending rate of $25,000 annually per student.
Yikes! $25,000 per student! I guess that says something for not increasing spending on education. Doesn't seem to do much!
Parent
Sandra In Brevard reports on the Grumpy Educators blog in Central Florida
I understand Eric Holder still goes into a rage when his name in mentioned...
Given a limited choice between a Eli Board Super and a suspected crook.. Hmmm One might be out to steal a few dollars.. the other would be out to steal Florida's entire public education system..
Thank you everyone for your input, even you "LouiseM" - you are entitled to your opinion as we all are...
Considering the "ruining" MGJ did here during her "tenure", personally I feel she is not fit to be in a position of leadership - especially in a school district...
I wish no one the disaster of not being employed, but if I can save a school district - no matter where - the heartache (and expense) of a disastorous "leader", then I will speak up (as others have on this blog and elsewhere)
If education truly is MGJ's calling, then I would encourage her to seek employment in the education system by all means - just not in a leadership role...
If Gov. Scott does have a say so in her hiring, then he will deserve her - he is cut from the same cloth she is due to his (and her)financial missteps...
They feel they've got enough on their plates dealing with the crooks running their state (Scott Walker et al) without having to deal with MGJ's additional shenanigans if she lands there....