Central Office Is Critical Bridge To Help Schools
Ramon Curiel oversees the recruiting and hiring of
6,000 bus drivers, custodians, teachers' aides, and other classified
employees for the public schools here. He visits classrooms, but he
doesn't work in them. Still, his bottom line is the same as that of
teachers, principals, and the superintendent: raising student
achievement.
That is why, when Long Beach students posted gains on recent exams, he gathered his central-office staff that hires the multitude of classified employees for a celebration. "I held up the grades and showed them," Mr. Curiel recalled. "I said, 'Look, you had something to do with this.'"
School experts applaud the simple gesture because it links the central office to the classroom in a way that is often missing. That connection, they add, is needed in order to clarify the leadership role that districts play in...
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