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Monday, November 05, 2007
SPRINGFIELD — Springfield City Schools assigned principals it hired in August to the four small schools it plans to use inside Springfield High next year.
Current North assistant principals Mike Skavaril and Kathy Lee will head the School of Leadership and School of Problem-Based Learning, respectively.
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South principal Pauline Swan will lead the School of Global Perspectives. South assistant principal Thomas Spurgin will head the School of Humanities.
The small-schools concept was developed by EdWorks, who the district hired last spring to help merge North and South high schools at 701 E. Home Road.
Springfield High is set to open on Sept. 8, 2008, Superintendent Jean Harper said.
EdWorks' concept calls for students to be divided among three floors and a wing of the 384,000-square-foot building into four schools, each with a core curriculum, teaching grades 9 through 12.
Consolidation project manager JoEtta Cooper said small schools will help students build better relationships with classmates and teachers because their environments are smaller and intimate.
She said students will have the opportunity to choose which school they wish to learn from.
Current North principal Hubert Watson, hired in August because of his experience at Columbus Brookhaven with small schools, will oversee the principals as the campus principal.
Contact this reporter at (937) 328-0373 or lsullivan@coxohio.com
Comments
By jen
November 7, 2007 1:48 PM | Link to this
Resident I like your comments right on!!!
By Resident
November 6, 2007 4:24 PM | Link to this
Jan and Tony get real. You guys must either be related to Harper or your cashing in on the money wasted by her and her staff. All of the people complaining are doing so BECAUSE HARPER SUCKS at her job and we care about the kids enough to speak up. If you walked down the same street every day and the same person approached you, every day on that street, and punched you in the face. How long would it take before you started taking a different route? Exactly. She’s the one punching us in the face!
By Resident
November 6, 2007 4:07 PM | Link to this
There was one principal at each school and now the two are combined you need four. Not only that, there are a lot less students now than there were. It sounds like a waste of money. When they need to cut money will they take it away from student programs and teachers instead of cutting un-needed admin, you bet, wait and see. Mrs. Harper if you care about the students do them a favor and QUIT now. You are no good at your job and thats OK to admitt, JUST LEAVE ALREADY.
By tony
November 6, 2007 11:00 AM | Link to this
Jan I could not have said it better myself. Also for those of you who are talking about new administrators and mils. The new school will run within the same budget as the current North and South. The current north principal replaced Joetta Cooper (no new position) the new four small school principals are assignments from the current staff at North and South (not new positions). When the two schools close the money that was running both schools will now run the one school.
By Jan
November 6, 2007 9:56 AM | Link to this
You know, I am sick and tired of all of the complaining about Jean Harper, the new school and the hiring of principals or coordinators! What’s done is done. What we, as a community, need to do now is get behind Jean Harper, the school board and focus on the children. Stop the inside fighting to see who can garner the most power! Enough of the bickering! Stop the dumb stuff and get with the program of educating our children!
By frustrated parent
November 6, 2007 9:34 AM | Link to this
And the hits just keep on comin’!!!!
By john
November 6, 2007 8:53 AM | Link to this
Ahhhh the pretzel logic of Dr. Jean, more administrators with big salaries, fewer students leaking money out of the district. Will someone please stop this woman in her pursuit of closing down this district. Vote for a change, and please hurry.
By C. Hursh
November 6, 2007 8:48 AM | Link to this
I think this whole situtation is a big mistake. A few years ago when my son and daughter were in school at North they said that they didn’t have enough money for paper for them to print things in computer class and that if they wanted to they had to bring their own. Now we are going to be paying 5 principals for one school. When did Donald Trump start funding our schools. If it is that way then hire teachers that teach the children and not sit and the new computer we purchased and shop.
By Doug
November 6, 2007 8:40 AM | Link to this
5 principles! Great.
How many mills will that be at the next election.
By Doug
November 6, 2007 8:40 AM | Link to this
5 principles! Great.
How many mills will that be at the next election.
By Doug
November 6, 2007 8:40 AM | Link to this
5 principles! Great.
How many mills will that be at the next election.
By Optomistic
November 6, 2007 7:53 AM | Link to this
Please put kids first. Enough chiefs.
By Carolyn Bristow Peterson
November 6, 2007 7:35 AM | Link to this
Great! Wonderful! The dream we dreamed starting back in 1998 when we had the Gates Foundation $$’s is going to come true! The best way to help young people achieve to is pinpoint their strengths, give them a sense of belonging through a “smaller” group strategy and then watch them blossom! I’m no longer there but am excited that a NEW horizon is within reach!
By unreal
November 6, 2007 5:57 AM | Link to this
Why do you need a “Project coordinator” making 70,000???? We need some business people in our school system now, please vote for change. What experience can an elementary school administrator have as a “project manager”? I wish I waa a fly on the wall on some of those conversations. They need to rethink things a lot and count the students before they assign too many administrators. I pray that we wake up soon and get efficient leadership in our school district. I would like to my kids 2 stay
By AmandaF
November 6, 2007 2:31 AM | Link to this
This is the most ridiculous thing ever.