Sunday, July 20, 2025

What Are the Problems in the Sheffield School System?





The Sheffield City school system contains four schools - two elementary, one middle, and one senior high. How much turnover should one expect in these four schools? Here's a short rundown from an insider:

5/14/25 : 11 resignations 4/28/25: 4, including high school assistant principal and district assistant superintendent 3/17/25: 1-Central office secretary/bookkeeper/receptionist 1/30/25: 1 resignation 12/20/25 (emergency meeting): 1 resignation 11/18/24: 2 resignations 10/28/24: 3 resignations including the school district CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER 10/11/24 (Special called meeting): They fired a child nutrition worker. 8/26/24: 1 resignation (bus driver) 7/22/24: 2 resignations 6/24/24: 5 resignations 5/20/24: 4 teachers were TERMINATED. Not allowed to resign, and not non-renewed. (I don’t believe any of these teachers had tenure, and non-tenured teachers can be let go at any time without reason. I’m trying to find out why they were fired. This group consisted of the ISS teacher, a kindergarten teacher, a high school English teacher, and a choir teacher. There were also 6 resignations. 4/29/24: 3 resignations 2/26/24: 3 resignations including the district CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER 9/25/23: 1 resignation 8/28/23: 1 resignation- the Assistant Superintendent 8/4/23: 4 resignations including Junior High Principal 7/10/23: 1 resignation 6/26/23: 1 5/15/23 (special called meeting): 2 TERMINATIONS-a teacher and a nurse in addition to 1 resignation 4/24/23: 4 resignations 3/20/23: 2 resignations 2/27/23: 1 resignation 2/3/23 Emergency meeting: 1 resignation (teacher) 1/23/23: 1 resignation 12/16/22: 2 resignations Board meetings are only archived on the website through October 2022.

Do these figures represent a problem? It would seem so. Comments welcome.




 

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