central administration

Just five elected officials run the largest county in the nation, with what many consider a weak central administration.

The Times obtained a list of the schools from other sources after the central administration declined to release that information Tuesday and Wednesday.

The central administration would not provide the Monday memo to The Times, which obtained it from other sources.

SPS has known since spring that it wouldn’t have funds to smooth staffing this year, but central administration failed to effectively communicate this to school principals, resulting in widespread disruption to children’s educations.

The blame for SPS’ deficit belongs to our state government for underfunding K-12 education, but the blame for failing to minimize this disruption by clearly communicating the new requirements to schools falls squarely on Superintendent Brent Jones and SPS central administration.