The State Of The Schools

The Rev. Tyus told us that the schools haven't been doing too well the last two years in performance. Dr. Price has the responsibility for that performance,and has received a contract extension and a raise thanks to some out-going board members (Venturella). Should the current board be looking at his performance since then and consider re-negotiating his contract and raise(or letting him go, perhaps) based on shaky results? I saw no real specific solution come from Tyus, just a generalized voodoo gameplan. Do we really expect upward movement as to ratings in 2010-11? What would convince us of that based on what was said?

Not sure- I believe he makes between $125,000-$130,000. This may be low compared to surrounding school district supers, but consider the job he is doing, regardless of the family income levels, Section 8 families, lack of degreed families in Middletown and all of the rest of the reasons used by this school system as to why they can't educate the kids but- we haven't heard a proposal for change in the form of teacher approach, curriculum, super change in approach, school board demand for accountablility from super and teachers alike,working with legal authorities to force parents to take responsibility or gaining/implementing ideas from successful school districts. None of these things have been tried and reported to the citizens of Middletown.