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| E-RFD: Superintendent Receives $25,000 Stipend for Extra
Work
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 12:13:34 EDT
"The North Clackamas School Board will pay Superintendent Ron Naso a $25,000 stipend for extra work" (From a story in the Oregonian, link below) Now that's special. Superintendent Ron Naso, also member of the "Quality Education Commission" who concocted the QEM (Quality Education Model) which says (without any basis), that another couple of billion dollars for K-12 will have 95% of all students meeting State benchmarks. (Benchmarks derived from a State Assessment System the feds deemed inadequate for testing students.) Naso has long been a champion of Oregon's assessment system, a centerpiece of our failed CIMCAM school reform which has devoured countless millions over the past 15 years with nothing to show for it. Yet Naso lined up to provide testimony of widespread CIMCAM success at every attempt to repeal the reform. He stopped at nothing to pitch for the establishment educrats at the Oregon Department of Education. Claiming CIMCAM costs were insignificant was among his bigger stretches. But in his finest hour as a school district super and shill for the status quo Naso took it far beyond cheerleading. Super Naso, seeing less than impressive State CIM success at NCHS (North Clackamas High Schools), decided to create a different new NC CIM (Certificate of Initial Mastery). This new district CIM was so watered down that every single graduate earned one regardless of GPA or any other performance measurement. Of course, the touting of his "district CIM" success included inferences that the State CIM should follow suit by introducing a similar easing of difficulty and standards. (Thus bringing about completely fabricated success numbers, and a full duping of the public.) Today as Naso receives his $25 stipend on top of his $141K salary he'll be working closely with various education "stakeholders" on advising the public on various voting decisions this November. His advice, along with his fellow "stakeholders" should be taken with full consideration of what they told us about CIMCAM and the road to "world class high standards". -- Steve Schopp
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