His entry seemingly has been a success, but there’s still much work to be done. The district faces looming concerns about budget cuts, deadlines for federal Race to the Top funds, widening achievement gaps in the schools and average graduation rates, which Morrison touched on at a press conference at Sierra Vista Elementary School on Wednesday.
“If we don’t commit to reform and if we don’t commit to change here in our school district and all across the country — because the problems we’re grappling with, the challenges are the same everywhere — but if we don’t commit to fundamental change and challenge the status quo, the reality is less than half of the students that we just spent time with today will make it to walk across the stage and graduate,” Morrison said. “We’ve got to do better than that. We can do better than that.”
And:
Currently, Nevada is the only state bound by a law passed in 2003 that doesn’t allow student achievement scores to be used to evaluate teachers’ performances. Barring that hindrance, Washoe County could be eligible for $5 million to $6 million a year for four years if it received a portion of Race to the Top’s $4.35 billion, Morrison said.
“It’s really about producing better quality of teacher, better quality of leadership, accountability systems, professional development to support our teachers and support our staff and so those are things we’re really excited about,” Morrison said. “We just hope we have a chance to go after these funds because we know we’d be good stewards of those funds and do good things for our kids.”
What a freaking disaster pick Morrison is.
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