HR Oversight Work Session
This was an interesting Work Session not least of all because of its topic - HR . (And no one said anything about "human capital.") Much of my interest was in how the Board acted. They acted like people who had questions and wanted answers, polite but firm. Sherry started off by explaining that Don McAdams, who is guiding the Board on governance issues, encouraged them to do overviews of all the departments. They just happened to start with HR. Ann Chan, who is the new head of HR, started out by explaining HR's focus which is ensuring every classroom has a qualified teacher, supporting teachers and providing timely staffing and evaluation data and support to principals, executive directors and central office managers. Michael pointed out that 40% of SPS employees were not in the classroom. He said the recent issues that "reflected badly" on the district occurred in Central office functions. He was following up on a comment Sher...