Accountability never looked so bad

By Dr. Andre M. Perry
Contributing Columnist

unsecured loan advisor There’s too much blame to go around regarding the Abramson High School drama: Teachers completing students’ science fair projects; unscrupulous industrialists offering bribes to state officials; the State Department of Education firing the “whistle blower” who was offered the bribe and discovered egregious acts of mismanagement. There are even innuendos that these issues only surfaced because of the state’s efforts to foil a Turkish plot to inculcate new-aged Islam.

But cash loans in your home it’s the handling of the case that actually raises the question, “Who should be held accountable?” Apparently that depends upon your brand of politics.

Who or what we make examples of often reflect our personal biases as well as our political leanings and networks. Bad schools exist. Corruption exists. Whether charter or traditional, school type doesn’t increase the presence of educational shysters, cheating, poor leadership, bad teachers or even the threat manage loans of proselytizing.

In the grand scheme, the Pelican Educational Foundation (non-profit operator of Abramson) presented an open and shut case. The charter department should have notified its discoveries to parents and the state board and consequently found a new operator last year, which could have occurred based on the fired employee’s correspondences. What is being hoisted as the penultimate case of bad schooling should be a bigger how to increase personal loan tenure example of the politics of accountability.

Part of the state’s accountability process worked. The bribe and educational malpractice were discovered by the charter department. Nevertheless, school leaders and the state are also responsible for acting on information. Any decent accountability pro­cess, under any governmental structure should have exposed the Abramson debacle earlier. How­ever, exposing the Pelican group probably would have made the reform movement look bad. Favoritism for cash advance ukiah ca all charters probably provided cover and consequent leniency for a school that hosted egregious incidents of mismanagement.

That’s why we should evaluate schools individually as opposed to how they represent a particular camp. While Pelican’s involvement with Abramson will be lifted up as what’s wrong with reform, this situation is bigger than bad reform, bad charters, bad teachers or bad religion.

We should learn that mismanaged ac­countability based on image i want a unsecured loan begets mismanaged ac-countability.

The end goal of accountability is not about firing a bunch of people or making it easy to do so. It’s certainly not about hiding our blemishes, no matter how scarring. Accountability is ultimately about nurturing and maintaining trust. In the Abramson case, getting a new school operator generates trust. Removing those who acted responsibly doesn’t.

The Abramson example shows how accountability has become a trite political slogan to advance agendas. Let’s not forget, acting responsibly is more about being good than looking good. No school system is perfect. If we would stop acting like one is, we might be comfortable correcting our inevitable mistakes and made uncomfortable when we repeat them.

This article was originally published in the August 1, 2011 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper