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May 2nd, 2007 BETH SLOVIC | News
 

Report card

This is going in your permanent file, Vicki Phillips.

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Just three months ago, WW asked Portland Public Schools Superintendent Vicki Phillips to give herself a grade.

She refused, saying her work "is about continuous improvement; it's about keeping our eyes on outcomes for kids." (See "Hurricane Vicki," WW, Feb. 7, 2007.)

Last week, Phillips' eyes wandered north to Seattle. She announced she was leaving Portland Public Schools less than three years after moving to the district from Pennsylvania.

If she were a high-school student, she'd be labeled a drop-out.

But upon closer examination, Phillips' eyeballs appear to have morphed into giant dollar signs:

She is leaving to be the new education director for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a post that paid the previous director $340,242 in 2005. Under Phillips' initial contract with the Portland district, she earned less than 60 percent of that—$203,000.

Before she goes, here's WW's report card on Phillips, covering core subject areas such as math, language arts, history and science, as well as important behavioral categories assessing how the superintendent treated others on the playground. We've come up with these grades following an extensive review of Phillips' permanent file.

Her final grade?

INCOMPLETE.

Report card for Vicki Phillips

Email from Portland Public Schools general counsel Jollee Patterson to Melanie Quinn

Email from Vicki Phillips to Peter Cookson

A report generated by consultant Marilyn Crawford, and what the Portland School District paid for it

 
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05.02.2007 at 04:10 Reply
Vicki did what all aspiring civic servants do...feather their nest. I think she was 50/50 in job performance. Her blunders were even with some good, tough decisions. Politics in public schools is always the large factor, Portland can never have great schools under this environment.

 

05.02.2007 at 05:32 Reply
Melanie Quinn is not the only person who had serious problems with the University of Oregon and Reading First conflicts of interest. Kudos to Melanie Quinn for having the courage to point this out.

From "Scholars Deny Conflicts of Interest in Their Work With Reading First Program"

"The federal Reading First program's early work involved such severe conflicts of interest that it was "cooked from the very beginning" and seemed "close to a criminal enterprise," the chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' education committee said during a hearing in April.

The chairman, Rep. George Miller, directed most of his ire at the program's former director, Christopher J. Doherty. But Mr. Miller and other members of the committee also intensely questioned three psychologists who are or have been affiliated with the University of Oregon about their roles in Reading First, a $1-billion-a- year component of the No Child Left Behind Act that provides grants to improve reading instruction at low-income schools in kindergarten through the third grade."

For full article go to:

http://chronicle. com/weekly/ v53/i35/35a02601 .htm

 

05.02.2007 at 09:13 Reply
Hooray -- full-size graphics! Thank you!

 

05.02.2007 at 09:53 Reply
Vicki Phillips had the same modus operandi in Lancaster. She sucked the School District of Lancaster dry getting big bucks for Marilyn Crawford and Lee Kappes and Cathy Feldman plus many many others.

Count your blessings that she is gone.

 

05.02.2007 at 11:20 Reply
Drop out? She was offered the a once in a lifetime opportunity--who wouldn't take it?

And why should she have stayed. She didn't get any love here. PPS needed someone to shake things up, PPS got that someone, and everyone hated her for it. Sounds like a job well done to me.

 

 
 

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