Here's a thought, as I think about Dallas ISD's debt woes:
Why is it the superintendent and all school administrators come from a background in which not a single hour of college credit is required in Business?
Why is it every school board is made up of everyone EXCEPT teachers? In fact, teachers are not even allowed to run for school board.
So we end up with non-business people running multi-million dollar enterprises and business people, who are not required to have a high school degree, setting education policy?
This is what you would call "setting up for failure". And, sure enough, time and time again schools fail at managing budgets and fail at educating children.
Meanwhile school boards (such as Dallas ISD) feel they should not "micromanage". Micromanage is the term given to a process in which a supervisor gets in the day to day business of a person who knows what they are doing. It would be micromanaging for a head coach to tell the line coach what drills to run.
However, if you have someone that do not know come here from sic'em about running a business it is called "oversight".
School boards who do not provide oversight should be fired. Superintendents who cannot run a "business" and does not ask for help, should be fired.
Meanwhile school boards (such as Dallas ISD) feel they should not "micromanage". Micromanage is the term given to a process in which a supervisor gets in the day to day business of a person who knows what they are doing. It would be micromanaging for a head coach to tell the line coach what drills to run.
However, if you have someone that do not know come here from sic'em about running a business it is called "oversight".
School boards who do not provide oversight should be fired. Superintendents who cannot run a "business" and does not ask for help, should be fired.
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