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DPS: Special meeting coming. Corr going?

In an almost unprecedented show of foresight and planning, Dayton Public Schools sent out a notice of a special meeting yesterday at 1:44 pm.

In accordance with Section 3313.16 of the Ohio Revised Code and File: BD of the Handbook of Policies, Rules & Regulations of the Board, I hereby call for a special meeting of the Board of Education of the Dayton City School District, Montgomery County, Ohio, to be held on Tuesday August 22, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. Room 6S-115 of the Administration Building, located at 115 S. Ludlow St., Dayton, OH 45402.

The purpose of the meeting is to allow the Board to vote on recommendations from the Policy Committee. Following the vote, the board is expected to go into executive session to discuss matters of personnel and the sale and/or purchase of real estate.

The media is being advised of this meeting in compliance with the Ohio Sunshine Law.

More than likely, the discussion of real estate sales is Baguirov’s last chance to sneak a deal by the stooges before we have a new superintendent. Any action on the Patterson Kennedy site on Wyoming without a proper auction at this point should be investigated as criminal.

As to personnel, the only thing to discuss is if Superintendent Rhonda Corr resigns, is fired for cause, or is just plain bought out. This board is embarrassed by the teachers no confidence vote, yet doesn’t want to seem as if they are “reacting.”

Let’s go back to last month- when I called for them all to R-E-S-I-G-N, at the business meeting. Baguirov responded by asking the auditor up, but, then Corr called HR chief Judy Spurlock up to respond to my claims of mass resignation. If you watch carefully at the beginning, as Spurlock begins to hobble on crutches with a open laptop in hand, I go to her to offer to carry the laptop for her and was rebuffed. Then she stands at the podium and says we’ve only lost 93 teachers this year- and 89 this year.

So we went and tried to build a spreadsheet from the HR reports over the last year from Board Docs- but, they didn’t post the spreadsheets. So we did a public records request- and had a CPA analyze the data.

Comprehensive for School Year 2017.

The breakdown is neither pretty, or sustainable. Total resignations of staff is 600. Workforce of around 2400- which means 25% turnover. No professional organization can survive that.

Spurlock said 89 teachers left.

Our count: 187.

Here is the break down by position:

Adjunct4
Adjunct staff11
Administration30
Clerical18
District support staff5
Mental health tech3
Nutrition2
Nutrition srevices7
Occupational theraphy assistant1
Occupational therapy1
Operations29
Paraprofessional59
Psychologist2
Security resource officer6
Teacher187
Temporary162
Transportation73
Total600

And, of course, I’m also including the entire spreadsheet. working Human Resources COMPREHENSIVE 06-30-17    [1]

Because, Rhonda, these are F-A-C-T-S.

Note: we had to correct a lot of issues- likely, keystroke errors, with names not quite matching. When we broke things down by schools- school names didn’t match, etc. If the board knew how to run an organization, they’d have asked for this report themselves, complete with pivot tables on which schools lost the most, and tried to interpret what’s been happening. But, no, even taking Spurlock’s word of half the true amount, didn’t set off alarm bells. If Corr isn’t gone by Wednesday, maybe a judge will see past their incompetence and criminal neglect of duty to manage our district properly.

 

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Dave C

Every member of the board needs to resign. No question.

Corr needs to go, too. ASAP.

DPS/CF is an ongoing catastrophe. The members of the board seem to think they are above reproach, when THEY ARE THE PROBLEM!

E.B.

I heard from a local business owner located on Brown Street that UD has an agreement in place to purchase that piece of land, with plans for more student housing. Probably an obvious conclusion, but as someone that owns rental properties in South Park, I would personally like to see more mixed use there to build off of what is happening at the old Cliburn Manor site. But again, just one thing that one person heard.

Bob

David,

I know of Belle Haven elementary in the last 3 years has cycled teaching staff almost 100%.