Or maybe not...

It seems that the Race to the Top Memorandum is NOT on the Worcester School Committee agenda for this Thursday (the agenda isn't on the website yet, but I've got it; I'm sure it will go up soon). The superintendent is giving a presentation on RTTT, but the vote on the MOU won't be on the agenda, I'm told, until January 7.

For a January 13 deadline.

If this were your every day, average, nothing new MOU, then I can see perhaps having it up on an agenda the week before the due date with the expectation that it will just pass. Maybe.

But for something like this? That commits the WPS to all sorts of actions around assessing teachers and principals, using data, taping into a teacher pipeline, and, most important for Worcester, radically changing the way that we deal with schools deemed chronically underperforming?

Not to mention has an expectation that we are going to do all of this with short-term, limited funds that run out in four years?

More time is needed. Badly.