...Miami School District Negotiation MGT/445-Organization Negotiations April 18, 2012 Miami School District Negotiation The City of Miami-Dade County, Florida boasts the fourth largest public school district in the United States. The district comprises 392 schools, employs more than 40,000 people dedicated to the education of the district’s 345,000 students. The diversity in Miami’s schools in unmatched, represents 160 countries, and the students speak 56 different languages (Dade schools, 2012). An issue common to large cities in the United States is over-crowding in public schools. The Miami school districts attempt to address the unexpected enrollment increases by redrawing its school boundaries for the upcoming school year faces tough opposition from the parents. This paper researches the concerns of the parents, other stakeholders, and develops a negotiation strategy that supports the school boards need to redraw the school boundaries. Six controlled choice boundaries with 14 choice schools make up the Miami-Dade County Public Schools district. Parents have the option of choosing a preferred school for their child using the controlled open enrollment method. Through this initiative, Miami-Dade’s school offerings have increased to provide parents with options best suited to maximize their child’s learning experience...
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...cuts in the face of the media. A comparison of a simular crisis will be illustrated in order to demonstrate the expectations of the media handling the issue faced with the Kelsey Unified School District (KUSD). Likewise, the roles of public relations and questions concerning ethical concerns. Overall, the impact of the media during a crisis is exemplified. Projected Prospective Similar to the Kelsey Unified School District (KUSD), school districts throughout Texas are facing the same issues. Rumors of prospective budget cuts have been the topic throughout the state. The Arlington Independent School District (AISD) holds personal interest to one. A reduction in the budget within the AISD will directly impact one. The media has addressed the speculations by answering the typical questions surrounding budget cuts. A local television station, CBS 11 News, posted an article concerning the consideration of budget cuts. The article, “Arlington ISD Considering Deep Budget Cuts” shares details on the extent of the expected drop in state funding. Likewise, the amount of dollar bills needed to be eliminated from school spending. The article paints a vivid picture of the chaotic budget. Additionally, the article illustrates how Arlington Superintendent Jerry McCullough and the AISD school board are weighing all options prior to making any drastic decisions. In addition, the AISD is...
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...1. Briefing: In December 1999, Wilson applied for Citibank credit card and signed an acceptance certificate in which she agreed to be bound by the terms and conditions of the credit card agreement. Citibank then issued a credit card to her, which Wilson began using. In July 2001, Citibank mailed Wilson her credit card statement, which informed her that it was modifying the terms of the original agreement. This revised agreement was enclosed with the credit card statement. After the July 2001 statement was made to her, Wilson continued using her credit card and made monthly payments on her account balance. Wilson made her last payment to Citibank in March 2002 and failed to make payments thereafter. Citibank then failed suit against her to collect her overdue balance, which was $12,272.84. In this action, Citibank attempted to enforce the revised agreement rather than the original agreement. Wilson argued that she never accepted the revised agreement. Is this a good argument? Issue: Did Wilson agree on the revised agreement? Rule: The elements for acceptance were (1) the offeree intended to enter the contract, (2) the offeree accepted on the terms proposed by the offeror, and (3) the offeree communicated his acceptance to the offeror. Application: Citibank first must prove that Wilson’s intention to enter the contract. If the offeree objectively indicates a present intent to contract on the terms of the offer for a contract to result, this element is satisfied. Here...
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...in more than 20 years is promising wide reform of the town's decrepit educational facilities He believes this kind of reform is what Smallville needs to raise school attendance a random survey of 1000 residents of Smallville, 75% of respondents said that they supported the decision As a beat reporter for The Smallville Sun Times Smallville High School supports the new recreation center. The Smallville Sun Times Review by: Ivan Parker Sr. Recent developments due to the retiring of our old High School Superintendent Mr. Grouchy, whom has been a part of Smallvilles School Faculty for 20+ years, is minimal news at best compared to our new (soon-to-be) Superintendents Mr. Don Wightman’s promising declaration of a wide reform of the town's decrepit educational facilities. We here in Smallville has a population of approximately 2300 residents, and Mr. Wightman’s survey of some 1000 of them, has a 75% approval rating. Mr. Wightman’s adds to this the voters of the Student Government agreement to the new changes. Looking at the premises of this one-sided argument, I can safely say using deductive thinking, that Smallville will be receiving a brand new educational facility, with a baseball fields, and maybe in the very near future, an indoor gym. Now this reporter thinks that I want to be in school,...
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...Essay #1 When embarking on a school and community relations program, the district needs to first adopt a community relations policy. A policy is the basis for the superintendent and their staff to work out the details of the program for the board’s approval. Local school boards are largely responsible for devising the policy. The policy should be short and simple. It should state what should be done and reasons for doing so. Making it clear and simple reduces the chances of misunderstanding, puts a restraint against impulsive action, and also serves as a guide in decision making. Every school district’s strategic plan of school and community relations must contain internal and external communication plans. The board sets a positive tone for the program when it consults with interested citizens and representatives of community groups on problems facing the schools. Interested citizens have much to contribute to the solution of those problems. Consulting these people makes them partners in the job of education and helps develop a basic policy for encouraging and expanding constructive relationships between the school and the community. The governing board should understand and model its policy-setting responsibilities on actions that are in the best interests of students and their learning. In a centralized plan, the school administrators most responsible for school community relations are the school superintendent and central office administrators. In a decentralized...
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...Building a Coalition It is evident after reading this scenario that the Washington D.C school district is facing problems with student performance, crimes and a high turnover rate of teachers, just like many schools today. Teachers are often faced with harsh realities when they start fresh at a school, because of the dysfunctional system in place and then they burn out, and quit. Our textbook talk about the five stages: Forming-Stage, Storming Stage, Norming Stage, performing stage and adjourning Stage. It seems the group is stuck in the forming and storming stage. The group has no sense of direction, structure or leadership and everyone has their own opinions of how the groups should be run. There are already strong opinions on how the problems should be solved regarding truancy, low performance, crimes rate and creating an effective after school program. Referring back to the stages and understanding of the stages would have assisted the Woodson Foundation tremendously. First the forming stage was not completed, the groups should have met and established roles, structure and the purpose and it’s clear that was not established. You have the principal and the superintendent thinking the school should have more power, and not involving the parents, and other members with their opinions as well, which is a clear example that a purpose was not established. Second, the members did not hash out who was going to be doing what, and this stage was not completed because there was...
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...EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Roslyn Free United School District The Case begins…. In late 2002, words got out that one of the high officials of the Roslyn school district was stealing money from the school. The allegedly culprit was determined to be the assistant superintendent (who played almost the same role of a chief financial officer in the school district sytem) Pamela Gluckin. The total amount was believed to be $223,000. The board, however, decided not to press criminal charges against Gluckin and just accepted her resignation and restitution of $250,000. The reason, as later explained by the board was that board members desired not to damage the school’s reputation. The final decision was also recommended and supported by superintendent Tasson, as he reckoned that Gluckin was making roughly $160,000 a year; if the board had prolonged the investigation and the process of bringing the case to court, the Roslyn school district would have lost more money paying for Gluckin’s high annual salary. And so it seemed the theft had ended, and Roslyn did not suffer too much of a financial crisis. They only learned, however, 2 years later, that was not entirely the case. The Truth unveils….. In early 2004, rumors got out that the Roslyn fraud case from more than a year ago did not just result in a loss of a few hundred thousand grants. Eventually, the Nassau County District Attorney decided to carry out a full-out investigation. The New York State Comptroller’s Department performed...
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...August 2010, a total of 33 states, school districts, charter school coalitions, and other education organizations¹ had received Teacher Incentive Funds (TIF) to redesign compensation programs for teachers and principals. The U.S. Department of Education named a new cohort of TIF grantees on September 23, 2010. TIF grantees have faced a number of challenges as they have worked to design and implement new educator pay programs. Among the most demanding challenges has been developing a targeted set of metrics around available and manageable data. Grantees use these metrics to measure teacher or principal effectiveness and assign pay. Recently, grantees have made it a priority to sustain operation programs once their federal funding expires. TIF grantees have also found, often belatedly and unexpectedly, that effective stakeholder engagement and communication are challenging and essential to the success of their pay programs. Stakeholder engagement helps to create buy-in and initial acceptance of the TIF plan. It allows different voices and perspectives to be heard and recognized as new approaches to compensation develop. Communication provides the synergy to broaden buy-in and sustain support for the program. This paper describes the ways in which TIF grantees have approached stakeholder engagement. It is based on data from multiple sources, including TIF program monitoring reports, Center for Educator 1 For example, New Leaders for New Schools. Compensation Reform (CECR) technical...
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...arbitrator in this matter I would have to agree with the public school district. I would award the school district the right to drive students (as long as they fit safely in the van) the right to be driven by the superintendent to any school sporting events or after school activities. It is stated that the schools definition of a field trip does not include sporting or after school trip is to be considered a field trip. If it was clearly written then it doesn’t matter what the school bus drivers decide to accept or not accept as a definition. 2. Identify the key, relevant sections(s), phrases, or words of the collective bargaining, agreement (CBA), and explain why they were critical in making your decision. I didn’t really find any relevant sections because they all seem to apply to how the drivers will be picked for trips. I am wondering where the paragraph about the definition of what constitutes as field trip is? In reading through this the only relevant thing I deemed appropriate to make the decision was how the school district defined field trip. If the bus company and its drivers knew this then there really shouldn’t be any type of grievance. If that wasn’t clearly defined then I do believe section six under Article XXXI would come into play. “Only classified bus drivers that are contract drivers with the board shall be assigned to any route or extra trip”. That paragraph would blow the school districts argument out of the water. I doubt the superintendent is...
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...Scope Document and Project Charter ITT Capstone Zeno Solutions, Inc 1. Purpose The Technology Director for the Northeast Independent School District wishes to implement three fully functional labs for various groups of high school students within the district. This infrastructure will be critical in supporting the education of the students. This infrastructure will require email capability on both client and mobile devices, as well as secure authentication. Because this lab will be used by various students and various instructors, a user guide Web page will be necessary. 2. Goals and Objectives Our goal in this project is to recognize the school district’s needs in regards to the three fully functional labs, to identify the number of work stations, and to provide the best solution to the customer in terms of hardware selection, reliability, affordability and ease of use. We will provide this to the school district with a competitive rate, and with the quality and expertise that our company is known for. 3. Success Criteria In undertaking this project, success can be defined in a number of ways. A successful project is one in which our goals are clearly defined, the customer is involved in every step so that they know what it is we are accomplishing and it is up to their standards, the work is performed fairly and effectively, we complete the project on time and within budget, and where all parties are satisfied with the work we have completed. Work is to be completed no...
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...FINAL BENCHMARK ASSESSMENT Final Benchmark Assessment: Individual Reflection Essay Abstract As a leader today, there are many challenges that you are faced with. The Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) is a program that has standards for school leaders to follow. The six standards are to be used as guides to make sure the organization runs smoothly. If ever the organization gets off track, the ISLLC standards can also be used as tools to get the organization back on track. These standards also keep the community informed and a part of the decision making process. Final Benchmark Assessment: Individual Reflection Essay The purpose of this essay is to show possible solutions to leadership challenges using the ISLLC 2008 standards. The purpose of the standards and how they impact the educational community will also be addressed. The ISLLC 2008 standards were drafted by personnel from 24 state education agencies and various professional associations (ISLLC, 2008). These standards were developed to enhance the skills of school leaders in order to produce enhanced educational outcomes (ISLLC, 2008). Standard 2 The first major challenge facing the leadership at my school is students that cannot read. Many students that reach third grade in my school are reading at a grade level below and some are two grade levels below. This is a major issue because it means that the ball has been dropped and it is also the first year for the students...
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...You are the chief of police in a city of 250,000 residents. Within the last 18 months there have been three well-documented cases of suicide by cop (suicidal persons who engage in life threatening behavior to force officers to shoot them to end their own lives)within your jurisdiction. Would you develop a policy to help police officers deal with this issue, and if so what would you include in that policy? Incidents in which police officers shoot and kill citizens often provoke substantial controversy . And this is even more true where the shooting occurs as a consequence of a person ‘s own provocative behavior and in circumstances that be defined as amounting to a victim provoked shooting or a victim precipitated shooting . Where death occurs it may be victim precipitated homicide , and in other terms as suicide by cop .Despite the fact that such events are surprisingly common , the literature is unexpectedly sparse and is often , lacking in empirical study . Outside the law enforcement community , the existence of the phenomenon is not well known and is certainly too often seriously misunderstood . But understanding suicide itself will help to give some understanding to this type of assisted suicide and how it is seen in the eyes of a criminologist . First I want to examine the criminologist perspective of suicide and this was first introduced by Emile Durkheim with his research on suicide that laid the foundation for anomie or strain theory . Anomic suicide ,he postulated...
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...low-income high school students while introducing a new stream of diverse workers to corporate America. Realizing a nationwide need for opportunities like Genesys Works, Mr. Alvarez expanded his program to multiple cities in the United States. Genesys Works has successfully placed over 1400 Houston high school students into meaningful internships. The success and potential of this great company depends on many factors. The local business offices has to have a want and a need for future interns. The program only works if there are companies that would like to better the communities that they are in, by partnering up with Genesys Work. That company has to be willing to train and pay compatible wages for the type of work that interns will be performing. Each intern will be working approximately 20 to 25 hours a week. No longer “charity as usual,” Genesys Works interns perform value-added services, breaking the paradigm of the traditional high school internship while providing corporate executives with the opportunity to create a better prepared and more diverse workforce. No longer is this a choice between shareholder return vs. what is good for the community. The Genesys Works model allows companies to do both. School districts has to be willing to allow their curriculum to have flexibility. The programs guarantees that the intern will be working between 20 to 25 hours a week. That interns put pressure on the Genesys Work to ensure that the coop program that the school district has in...
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...Mississippi The position of school superintendent was created during the late 1830; by 1850, 13 large city school systems already employed an administrator in the capacity. By most accounts, the very first district superintendents were appointed in Buffalo, New York, and Louisville, Kentucky (Grieder, Pierce, & Jordan, 1969). By 1900, most city school districts had established this position. The need for school systems to have a top executive stemmed from a myriad of conditions including the development of larger city school districts, the consolidation of rural school districts, an expanded state curriculum, the passage of compulsory attendance laws, demands for increased accountability, and efficiency expectations (Kowalski, 2003) During the past several decades, widespread concern for the condition of the education and the economy launched and sustained what arguably is the most intense effort to reform public education in recent history. For more than two decades (1983-2005), national commission and task force reports examined the condition of American public education, heightened expectations for schooling, and called for improving instruction as well as fundamentally altering the manner in which schools are organized, administered, and governed. Recommendations for improvement that stimulated reform initiatives launched by state legislatures, education agencies, and district leadership. During the early 1990s, interest in large-scale systematic...
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...Education in A Positive Work Place Stanford, Education in my perspective is one of my most passionate fields of my life. It’s let me view several aspects of children’s lives and helping the children develop a stable level for their academics. I have the passion for volunteering, and helping the children grow tremendous amounts of potential in their academics, so they can prosper, contribute, and have a passion to contribute their skills to society. These perspectives have shown me that education is their key to each child’s soul and future. The ambiance of the school feels endless and ecstatic as it is derived, and driven in such an atmosphere that’s professional and not a very hostile environment. The children come to school and yearn their education in many different aspects to grow abroad. Each day that the children show up to school I yearn to greet them ,encourage them, and direct them towards the zenith of every vowel, color, letter, book, and playful object that helps them develop to the next level in their education. Furthermore, I love the way the teachers focus and implement the skills that STARRS State exam guidelines have to help the children reach and learn every area of their souls’ intelligence to work diligently. The Children themselves demonstrate that they love their books. Coloring, taking field trips to engage in feeling solids and playing different centers that visualize what they’ll want to grow up to be. These techniques...
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