Posts Tagged ‘Employee’

City to Name New Asst. Super for Portfolio Schools

Monday, June 8th, 2009

The New Haven Register reports “New York City school reformer Garth Harries [to be appointed] to the new post of Assistant Superintendent for Portfolio and Performance Management”. From the article, it seems like this would be a great addition to the educational reform needed in New Haven. I wish this person success. To complement the City Administration, this new trend of hiring experts to run the city is an encouraging development – especially if we can truly leave behind this “mom and pop”/”friends and family” style politics and cronyism. We can only hope that bringing in this new person from the outside does not meet with the same resistance/interference from politicos in the City Administration (and BOE) that are notorious for needing to control everything. This “business as usual” B.S. has already interfered with at least two outside experts hired by the city – the police chief and Michele Whelley from the new EDC. I hope Mr. Harries brings some antacids with him.

Spreadsheets

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

There has been a discussion about the following spreadsheets going on. Take a look and help make them better.