Everett School District 'Outside review' was hardly independent

Jessica Olson:

The Everett School District recently invited a "Management and Operations Review" by an outside organization. The entity that performed the assessment, WASA, is the Washington Association of School Administrators. It is an organization of, by and for school administrators; an organization to which all higher level administrators in Everett (including Everett Superintendent Gary Cohn) belong and pay dues.

Having this organization assess the source of their income and calling it objective is akin to hiring the teachers' union to review the effectiveness of teachers for the district, or hiring a textbook publishing company to rate the effectiveness of the district's curricula. While this arrangement struck one board member as preposterous, four members of the board felt it made perfect sense.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at December 15, 2010 2:03 AM
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