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- This article was great until the last two paragraphs. The County's recommendations were to the district because it is a program improvement district; they were not directed at specific sites. To imply that this is a result of Janney's leadership is misleading at best. The schools under her supervision were improving in their performance. In fact, 2 recently exited from program improvement status: a direct result of her leadership and involvement at the sites.
All of the major initiatives that have been successful in recent years(the Strategic Planning Process and the Common Calendar are two) were led by Karen Janney, not Dr. Gandara. The truth is that Gandara is probably threatened by Ms. Janney's competence and the respect she receives from colleagues everywhere.
Karen Janney is probably one of the most competent, respected educators in the state. To lose her leadership in this district is a tremendous loss. What is the board doing? Remaining silent and allowing Dr. Gandara to dismantle the things that have worked for the district. Change is good; destruction is evil. It is also interesting that all the demotions have involved women. Hmmm? - HEY, UNION TRIB....What happened to investigative reporting?
Isn't it curious that 75% of the positions affected by the Sweetwater district re-organization eliminated females over 50; and 80% of the men affected by the re-organization received a promotion? Of the men promoted, 100% have contributed money and company time to promoting school board members. TAKE A LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE! What did some of the board members gain by these moves????????
Has the UT been bought out, too? Where was the story about recent trouble at one of the board member's South Bay businesses? It's been kind of quiet lately....hmmm
Come on! I know that when new CEOs come on board, they bring with them new senior leaders. That's business. But they don't try to hide this reality by using the previous senior leaders to raise the hopes of the employees about the new administration and then fire the people who have done the work.
It seems that the character of the Sweetwater district is now built on test scores, not on building contributing citizens.
If you are a business owner or home owner in the South Bay....good luck. - The San Diego County Office of Education supported the firing of Karen Janney???? What the hell business is it of theirs?? I guess it is just as much their business as it was Gandara's business to tell Southwestern College who to fire. I didn't know sdcoe was so caught up in SUHSD politics - what benefit will they get from this?
Or - did Chris not verify the information? Seems to me a little research would have led him to discover that under Janney's leadership of the Program Improvement schools:
1. Sweetwater High was one of only 2 Year 5 PI high schools in the state to exit Program Improvement
2. Two other high schools met all the PI criteria and are poised to exit this year.
There is a real story here Chris - too bad you missed it.
Karen Janney is an excellent administrator, who will now be using her talents to bring about improvement somewhere else. A HUGE LOSS for Sweetwater, and all for political reasons. - Chris didn't say that the SDCOE supported her firing he just made a bad choice in where he combined two sentences. He said they suggested a change in the instructional process. However, I do agree that there needs to be more investigation. Usually Chris is extremely good and calling the district out on things they are doing that hurt our students but he has been much more quiet lately. Is it a change at the UT or is the district holding some influence over him. Either way we need to get the media - and more than just the UT more involved in all that is going on. My understanding is that Janney/Carberry have filed a lawsuit. . . if this is so it's public knowledge so why hasn't it been publicized anywhere? More research needs to be done but with all the fear in the air it's not surprising that it hasn't been. . .
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