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IPS has the highest performing school in every grade level. Great job!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to the students and teachers at Merle Sidener! Awesome scores!
ReplyDeleteOff the topic. At 4:38 PM, we all received the following email from Jane regarding payroll!
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Employees,
Unfortunately, we have continued to experience issues with MUNIS, the new computer system. The MUNIS vendor has, however, identified a programming error, and the IT Department has input the "fix." The programming problem has not in any way affected the amount of your paychecks but has caused some delays in payments to third parties for which you authorize deductions. You can use your quarterly statements to confirm that all appropriate payments have been made on your behalf.
Please detail issues or concerns with your payroll in an email. Forward it to deductions@ips.k12.in.us. The appropriate representative will respond to your concerns upon receipt.
We certainly do appreciate you patience.
Jane Hart-Ajabu
OMG...what's next with this mess??
ReplyDeleteIt is sad when we have a separate clearinghouse email address for "concerns" (aka screw ups). How does Ajabu keep her job? Poor Peggy Penn has to do all of the dirty work for her. Seriously, you could not PAY me to have her job. Ajabu is a joke.
ReplyDeleteWhen looking at these statistics remember the fallacy of statistics, small groups are penalized in percentages, so if your school tests 10 kids in one grade level each child is 10% of your score, if you test 100 kids each child is only 1%.
ReplyDeleteMerle Sidener does have awesome scores and that is great for the district. We must remember that these students were hand-picked because they are gifted and talented so they have an advantage when they do not have to assimilate into their average the scores of students, for example, who have learning disabilities. However, they are still to be congratulated on working with some challenging students who may have other issues that have to be taken into consideration.
ReplyDeleteI do not believe that we can lay the blame for problems such as those with the payroll system on one person and that Jane Ajabu is probably just one link in a whole chain of events and the responsibility must be shared. You are right, though, to say that she has a job that many folks would not want to attempt to do.
ReplyDeletePeggy Penn sold out the IEA when she was still president.....that is why she was awarded with a job that she is not qualified to do and just sits in her office doing nothing since she cant do the job.....Poor Al Wolting tried to get the mess straightened out but she left IEA in too deep a hole to ever recover.....IEA is going to disappear very soon.
ReplyDeleteAl Wolting did nothing, the man was afraid of his own shadow. The man didn't know how to send emails, and it looks like Ann has no communication skills at all.
ReplyDeleteIt's not just Sidener that had high scores. School 67 had 100% of its 7th graders pass for the second time in a row. Look at the data by grade level. Statewide, IPS has the school with the highest score in each grade. Keep up the great work!
ReplyDeleteCheering the very, very small successes will not help the students who got 0. Action is needed. IPS overall failed big time, again. That is not ok. These students are not disposable items; they are people who will grow up and need to become productive members of society. They ALL deserve a chance at a quality education, not just the few who go to the rare school that passed.
ReplyDeleteAll of the Montessori Options had high scores....A lot of those kids from Sidener came out of Montessori schools.
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