New principal at Santa Rosa High expected by January
by Extra.Credit
A new principal at Santa Rosa High School is expected to be in place by January, according to assistant superintendent for Santa Rosa City Schools, Pat Crocker.
District retiree Sue Sion was named interim principal last week and took over the post Monday after former principal Jim Goddard was re-assigned to the district office as “Principal on Special Assignment.” But Sion can only stay on the job a limited number of days because of how retirement regulations are set up, Crocker said Tuesday afternoon.
Because of those regulations, a permanent replacement is expected to be in place by January, she said.
Meantime, Sion will earn $551 a day on the job and Goddard will contine to make $120,000 a year in his new assignment.
The school board meets Wednesday night at 6 p.m. to discuss a long list of potential cuts to reach a target of $5.6 million in reductions for next year alone. Another $4.7 million could be axed from the 2011-12 school year.
A large crowd is expected.
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Unbelievable!
by CkR
WTF! why? How about going with out? January is around the corner. Whats the Assistant Principle for?
by bme
Prime example of what is wrong with public education.
If the SRHS principal was not working out then just fire him! If that risks him filing a lawsuit, suck it in and wait until the contract is up in May–in the meantime, have a superintendent or someone higher up watch his every move. Whatever you do, don’t reward those who you believe are not helping to create a better education.
by observing
This is the same thing that goes on in Petaluma, but there they give out administrative bonuses or, in oedspeak, “administrative parity raises” to their top, then highlight their denial in the local paper, while cutting necessary school services, personnel closest to the kids and even teachers.
As much as the feds and state want accountability in schools, there is none at the local administrative level. Thus the raid on the public coffers, and the continued demise of public our public schools. School Board members in both cities snooze and count their “public service” hours sitting while layers of administrative wage and benefit waste drain our students of opportunity.
Begin with the plush County Office and rid all the rest to get us through these tough times. Send them all in to the hands-on areas of need.
Parent groups, principals and teachers will do just fine- even better than they are now with real trench support!
But this would all mean being fiscally responsible to the students and community and not themselves.
I’m worried, and sorry to all our students for these misguided theives. I thought I had heard the worst stories recently in the Petaluma Argus.
by Gauge
The school board makes up a job for dismissed Santa Rosa principal, then pays temporary principal $500 plus a day. Meanwhile considering cutting school librarians, sports,etc. I suggest cutting administration salaries by 5 percent starting at the top, Is the school board made up of idiots or am i missing something?
by Michael G. Myers