His role is to work with teachers from each school to identify ways to improve teaching and working conditions. He brings to the Governing Board and the administration suggestions for salaries, fringe benefits, and working conditions. In the past few years, all parties have been frustrated by a state budget that has not provided funds for local choices. Therefore, teachers have only received raises of two to three percent annually. However, Ron and Associate Superintendent Bill McGuire have worked as a team to bring to the Governing Board salary comparisons for comparable districts, and an effort has been made to keep our salaries competitive with other districts.
Principals know that they deal directly with teachers and their concerns.
They are expected to be in classrooms and to be aware of the responsibilities and duties of the teacher. Serious issues that in other school districts are handled by union complaints, superintendents, or outside agencies, in the CUSD are often solved at the school by principals and teachers. If the problem can t be solved at the site, Ron brings the problem to a district administrator for resolution. Certainly there are problems that are not always resolved to the teacher s satisfaction, but the problems are openly discussed and the goal is mature discussion and compromise. Materials to do my job.