Charts!

Page 36 on (if you're reading it online) has organizational charts. There have been several calls, both from the School Committee and the community, for charts to show who works for whom and where.
A few things of note:

• The Clerk of the School Committee answers directly to them, not to the Superintendent (parallel, in this way, to the City Clerk, who is hired by the City Council rather than the City Manager).
• Lest we forget, the Superintendent works for the School Committee.
• Answering directly to the Superintendent are the Higher Ed Liason (which is a grant-funded program), School Safety, Chief Accountability Officer, Chief Academic Officer, Chief Financial Officer, HR Manager, and School Plant Manager.
• The new Chief Academic Officer (in the system set up by the incoming Superintendent) has both quadrant managers answering to her, plus student support services, manager of federal programs, staff and curriculum development, and special ed.
• The Manager of Federal Programs has a whole lot going on, most of it grant-funded: Head Start, grants, accounts, adult ed, elementary initiatives, early childhood, and the parent information center.
• In addition to what you'd expect (counseling) under student support, it also includes physical education and athletics, ELL programs, nursing, and the alternative programs run by WPS (the Creamer Center, School Age mothers, etc.)
• Accountability is the federal testing office, which I believe is mandated by NCLB. Yes, that would be an unfunded mandate.
• Is anyone else surprised, that with the number of people working in the IT department (which falls under the CFO), we have only ONE person who actually goes out to the schools?