The document discusses issues with the management of the Murphy School District. It notes that the school superintendent was arrested for shoplifting wine despite making over $100,000 per year. It questions how someone who cannot properly manage their own finances can manage a multi-million dollar school budget. Poor financial management has led to underperforming schools that fail to provide students with high-quality teachers and make adequate yearly progress. Drastic changes are needed to improve the school system and ensure students receive the education they deserve.

1. The truth
in
black and white
part II

2. What you and I
can learn from a
shoplifting case.

3. The correlation between the shoplifting
case and managing schools is clear.

4. People are just wondering why
someone who makes a decent
amount of money ($100,000 + a
year) goes around stealing wine?

5. People are also wondering why a
superintendent who is double dipping
couldn’t afford to pay his court fees?

6. For many, this is raising a big FLAG.

7. The association is clear:

8. If the school superintendent fails to
manage his own personal finances,
how can he be able to manage a multi-
million educational budget?

9. When money can’t be use wisely,
education suffers.

10. When the people in charge of
managing our public schools lack the
basic tools of management every
business has, then education suffers:

11. • the discretion to reward their
best staff with higher pay,

12. • to fire those who are incompetent,

13. • to allocate funds in ways that will
have a maximum impact on
student achievement.

14. Yes!
The ability to manage money
does matter!
Why?

15. Because it is the proper use of
resources that plays the key
role in outcomes.

16. It matters when used well.

17. Murphy School District, however,
could make better use of the
money they actually have.

18. Well managed money could help in
attracting exceptionally dedicated
and gifted administrators and
teachers .

19. Some people believe that administrative
payroll at Murphy is padded with friends
who contributed nothing important to
the education of students.

20. In their search for better teachers,
Murphy School District should be able
to raise teacher’s salaries and save
money by increasing class size, for
instance .

21. Some of the best schools have large
classes, but the teachers are superb.

22. Students learn more with good teachers.

23. There is no doubt that high-need
schools such as the Murphy Schools,
do not have the highest-quality
teachers.

24. Murphy School children are about as
likely to have teachers with degrees
beyond a bachelors, as well as
teachers with considerable classroom
experience.

25. Conclusion:
Poor management translates to
underperforming schools or
schools that fail to make Adequate
Yearly Progress.

26. Drastic change in the Murphy
School system will have to be
mobilized at a much higher level
than it is now to overcome the
enormously powerful forces that
buttress the status quo.

27. Without consequences, neither the
district administrators, nor the
schools, nor the students themselves
will be motivated to do better.

28. Hey Mr. Tom Horne, aren’t
these your schools?

29. What are you waiting
for to take action?

30. This is the sad story of four
schools that have failed to
make AYP for more than two
years!

31. Are you willing to sacrifice the future of your 2,000 students just to protect the job of an individual?
Esteemed board members, Are you
willing to sacrifice the future of more
than 2,000 students just to protect
the job of an individual?

32. Without an excellent education,
these children are slaves to the
world they live in.