Maybe taking a page from the CHARTER SCHOOL playbook, LPS announced the hiring of SARAH JACKSON as COORDINATOR OF PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS. The goal for this position is to access non-governmental funding sources for public education.
The key will be to convince these private sources that a better educated workforce benefits them personally and we are all part of the same community. We have to learn are way to solutions. Answers don't fall out of the sky by themselves.
DR. LATHAM was rightly excited by this appointment. SARAH seems to be extremely qualified.and focused. There seems to be a sense of the need for a strategic plan for seeking donations.
This sounds good, but again, many of the problems we are facing in LPS is not always due to lack of funding. They are due to the misuse of the funding we do receive. LPS lacks transparency! Do you think private sources are going to want to contribute to LPS when they do not know exactly where their money is going? We've all listened to Kevin McHugh take money from this line item to put it in that line item, but do we know all the in's and out's of these line items? Can we really account for all the money LPS receives and spends? Do we know where every cent that LPS receives really goes? Stanley, you have mentioned a pizza party in the past that I believe cost something like $2,000. If this is true, where did this money come from? I am sure it wasn't taken from a line item entitled 'Pizza'? It was most likely taken from a line item entitled something very vague like 'Administration' Is this 'Administration' line item then broken down any further to specifically account for all the money that is used from this line item, like the said pizza party? Or are we suppose to just accept that $50,000 for example was taken from 'Administration' and spent?
ReplyDeleteYou do bring up good points. The BIGGER question is not how much money we have to spend but rather how we spend what we got.
Deletethey could just ask Dr. C....
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