Richmond Schools’ Flawed Data Threatens Federal Funds
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12 responses to “Richmond Schools’ Flawed Data Threatens Federal Funds”
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The Feds can kiss off. Their “rules” need to be modified and/or just ignored based on Equity. Like Kenya Gibson has said Black women are in charge now and they will do as they please. And I’m pretty sure that goes for Xiden too.
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“The federal guidelines require the RPS data quality team to be led by the RPS Chief Information Officer. RPS has no CIO position…”
Well, there you go. It’s not their fault!
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Federal funds? Mo’ money, mo’ money, mo’ money…
https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/HAF-Guidance.pdf-
Belly up to the trough!
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The Feds have been wavering or deferring grant financial and information requirements due to COVID. RPS can get a pass with a reasonable cause request. That is assuming anyone at RPS know how to do it.
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You are correct they have given COVID reporting passes. But the ineptitude at RPS long predates COVID.
I have worked with RPS directly and praised a couple of their initiatives, but bottom line RPS is by far the worst performing school district in Virginia. Many of the kids who show up at school bright eyed at six years old are never given a real chance to learn.
Doing things like organizing the headquarters to block and tackle, like appointing a CIO and enforcing data quality, and generally straightening out the things over which they have more direct control than classroom teaching, might over time change the climate of failure there.
As for data, RPS headquarters itself can’t manage if it cannot get consistent and accurate reporting from its principals. The Superintendent needs to examine whether the RPS rewards system is aligned with those goals.
Fire one principal over bad reporting and that problem, assuming it exists, would fix itself.
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Richmond Public Schools have an annual operating budget of almost half a billion dollars. They have 24,000 students. They must have over 1,000 employees (although that number is hard to find).
How do they not have a CIO?
This is from the Alfred E Neumann, errr …. I mean Ralph Northam school of management.
Who needs any stinkin’ computers or people to manage the stinkin’ computers.
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“How do they not have a CIO?”
DJ, you ask a question for the ages.
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Jim, I commend you for your reporting on the failure of Richmond schools. You are right–the children deserve so much better.
I have long marveled at how the Richmond city government could not seem to get right the most basic, simple aspects of government. Basic things like collecting fines on overdue parking tickets and ensuring that the street department communicates with the utilities department when gas has to be shut off in a neighborhood due to construction.
The incapacity to perform basic governing management actions says a lot about the government’s ability to perform overall. From what you have reported, it seems that that the school administration suffers from this same malady.
I have asked people whose judgment I trust about this failure to be able to carry out basic governmental functions. They respond that it is not the fault of the line personnel, in whose ranks there are some good people, but of middle and upper management. I am not close enough to it to be able to judge the accuracy of this point of view, but something needs to be done.
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I honestly don’t know how to turn this ship around either, Dick.
The left is focused on policy, not execution – narratives rather than the hard work of government. They reject merit and objectivity. So what you and I see is the result.
I spend nearly all of my research focus on the schools now. Our grandchildren’s generation is being put at severe risk by the inability of their parents to control an anti-Enlightenment, anti-Judeo-Christian tradition takeover of the heights of the culture.
That part of the left rejects the family as the primary building block of civilization in favor of government.
Those parents appear to have awoken, but it will be a very long slog. Higher education is lost for now. The battleground is K-12.
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RVA is a glimpse of the world when we hire for Equity and not Merit. Also add in the fact governments won’t fire employees unless they are white and say something racist or kill someone.
RVA politics are a popularity contest/ battle of intersectionality and as far as management goes, no one in their right mind would work there unless it was strictly for the pay check and/or the only option.
I work with their management professionally. They really are clowns and it is very very sad. -
This is not a question of the “left”. It has been the case with Richmond for many years, before the “left” were voted into the majority.
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