One More Time !~sigh!

One More time and honestly its getting old.So lets spell it out to Bacon and Perry.. WE WANT YOU GONE. YOU ARE NOT NOW OR WILL YOU EVER BE PIONEER MATERIAL.

It has to sting badly when the majority of your staffers say they have no confidence in you after a year on the job.
Pioneer Valley Regional School’s faculty and support staff overwhelmingly voted “no confidence” in Principal Jean Bacon and Assistant Principal Jennifer Albert Perry as this school year ended.
For Bacon, 95 percent of faculty voted “no confidence” along with 96 percent of support staff. For Albert Perry, 84 percent voted “no confidence” along with 87 percent of support staff.
Pioneer Valley Regional Education Association representatives say they took the pulse of the Pioneer employees because of several complaints over the course of the year that included “general mismanagement and lack of communication,” layoffs that are said to have affected some veteran teachers and “a lack of real response and authentic action” after the faculty presented a survey outlining concerns about the school atmosphere.LISTEN THIS IS PRETTY CLEAR WHERE EVERYONE STANDS AND FOR YOU TO IGNORE THIS AND THINK YOUR GET TOGETHER WILL MAKE IT RIGHT .. AHH THINK AGAIN.}
Also, association leaders said, most educator evaluations conducted by Bacon and Albert Perry came back “extremely negative and resulting in a rating for many teachers as ‘Needs Improvement.’” Some such teachers, she explained, have been teaching anywhere from five to 20 years without receiving bad evaluations.NOW YOU TELL THE TRUTH BACON AND PERRY , MILLER TOLD YOU WHAT TO WRITE BECAUSE SHE WANTED THESE TEACHERS GONE BECAUSE THEY SPOKE UP AGAINST HER AND YOU TWO ARE NOTHING MORE THAN HER PUPPETS!THIS HAS HAPPENED IN HER PAST EMPLOYMENTS SAME MO.
This all comes as the district’s new superintendent, Ruth Miller, has announced she’s going to leave next June after her third year, saying, in essence, that she didn’t sign up to manage a district challenged by shrinking staff and enrollment in tough fiscal times.MILLER IF YOU LEFT SOONER PVRS WOULD NOT BE IN THE MESS ITS IN AND IF WE HAD A RESPONSIBLE SCHOOL COMMITTEE YOU WOULD OF NEVER STEPPED INTO THIS SCHOOL.YOU ALSO KNEW YOUR TIME LIMIT WITH ANY SCHOOL IS 3 YEARS BECAUSE THEY SEE  WHO YOU REALLY ARE.

“Though we may be required to work under changed conditions, we cannot currently express our confidence that the best interest of students or the integrity of our school is being served,” Ariel LaReau, president-elect of the association, recently told the school committee.FINALLY SOMEONE WITH SENSE , THANK YOU
Bacon was hired by Miller with the strong recommendation of a search committee of teachers, School Committee members, students, community members and Assistant Superintendent Gail Healy. She was chosen among 19 applicants. Bacon in turn had the final say in selecting Albert Perry.
The pair came in for both criticism and support at a recent meeting where the no-confidence poll was presented to the school board.
Karen O’Neil, a retired Pioneer science teacher and Leyden resident, told the committee that actions taken by administrators “have lacked protocol, transparency and inclusion of professional partners.”TRUTH
Parent Deborah Potee supported Bacon, saying “I understand change is hard,” in reference to recent layoffs. “I feel very strongly the principal wants what’s best for Pioneer.” Potee said she found Bacon to be open, authentic and up front about the budget’s limitations, while supportive of moving Pioneer forward academically. She asked that community members focus on moving the school forward.
This seems like the right course of action here. In Massachusetts, school boards don’t hire or fire or even evaluate principals and vice principals. So if the goal is to meet the district’s challenges and to improve the school, then it seems the best course of action is for faculty and staff to work with the administrators, to discuss their concerns and seek mutually acceptable solutions.DEBORAH !! YOUR TALKING NONSENSE AND  THIS IS ABOUT STUDENTS AND TEACHERS THESE 3 NEED TO GO PERIOD!!!!!!
The school committee, for its part, will be looking for a new superintendent for the Pioneer schools. It needs to find a new leader willing and able to tackle the substantial challenges the district faces, including discontent in the ranks.LETS HOP THIS TIME THEY ACTUALLY DO THEIR JOB
In response to the “no confidence” vote, Bacon professed to understand the faculty’s frustrations.
“I think it’s coming from the difficult year we’ve had, the fact that we’ve been facing these difficult layoffs, and I can totally empathize with faculty feeling frustrated,” she said.BACON YOU WERE WELCOMED AND YOU BLEW IT AND YOU NEED TO GO! HOW MANY TIMES DO YOU NEED TO BE TOLD?
Hoping to move forward, Bacon said she reached out to next year’s faculty to put together what she calls a “transition team” to figure out what faculty need to feel more supported by administrators. Ten faculty members have joined the team. That’s good news and a positive sign that teachers and administrators want to fix the problems, and not just complain.YOU CAN CREATE ALL THE TEAMS YOU WANT IT WILL NOT CHANGE THAT YOU DON'T BELONG HERE OR PERRY. 
“I’m really very hopeful that we can put this difficult year behind us and move forward in a positive direction,” Bacon said. I CAN ASSURE YOU IT WILL NOT
We hope so, too.

THIS  BACON , PERRY AND MILLER CAN BANK ON, WE ARE WATCHING EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE AND WE WILL REPORT IT . YOUR A DISGRACE TO PIONEER AND WE WILL NO LONGER STAND FOR IT , WE ARE GONNA BE EVERYWHERE.  

 

To much coincidence ?????

Sometimes 2+2 does not add up especially in this case.  Young for one cannot be trusted. He is the one who always defends Miller ..
“I think this is unfortunate,” said School Committee member David Young of Warwick. “She’s doing a good job for us, I’ll be sorry to lose her.
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Secondly, its Millers boyfriend  John Graziano who is wanting to open a Charter School 
John Graziano came forward this week to talk about his concept for a brand new K-8 school that he has been privately working on for the past several months.
Saturday, June 24, 2017
FYI Graziano was also asked to leave Templeton, complaints from Teachers and parents. Jan 2017

Just after this article Miller announces she is leaving ??? 

To much coincidence ?????

Stay tuned we will find out.

 

WARWICK — At the request of Pioneer Valley Regional School District School Committee member David Young, community members have been asked to consider making Warwick Community School a Horace Mann charter school.
Young said his “motivation is the revenue side of the equation,” believing the switch could put Warwick Community School on a more financially sustainable path.
At the start of the 2016-2017 school year, Warwick Community School had 57 students, of which 23 choiced into the district. Whereas the district receives about $5,000 per choice student, he explained, it would receive significantly more if Warwick Community School became a Horace Mann charter school, which is still a public school and would remain part of the district.
For example, according to data updated in May by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Athol-Royalston Regional School District pays $11,169 per charter school student, and the Ralph C. Mahar Regional School District pays $13,798.

“It is, in every case I’ve looked at, more than twice what we get as a choice option,” Young said. “You can’t grow a school on $5,000 per student.”
Becoming a Horace Mann charter school According to the Department of Education’s website, in Massachusetts there are Commonwealth and Horace Mann charter schools. The two differ in the sense that a Horace Mann charter school must have its charter approved by the School Committee, and in some cases, the local teacher’s union, as well as the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.

http://www.doe.mass.edu/charter/new/2015-2016QandA.pdf

Existing schools that are converted to charter schools, as would be the case with Warwick Community School, are considered Horace Mann II charter schools, according to the website. Though the application process involves more information for a Horace Mann II charter school, a board decision on awarding a charter may occur four months after the application is submitted.
“I think, by virtue of its Level I standing, its handsome campus, its great staff, it has a very good chance of being granted a charter school,” Young said during June’s School Committee meeting, when he first announced his proposal.
According to the website, submission of a charter application also serves as an initial application for a federally-funded Charter Schools Program grant, when money is available, which would help support the school during its planning period and first two years of operation.
Changes in Warwick Money would continue to come from the school district, in accordance with an agreement the district would reach with the Horace Mann charter school, which Young said would also outline transporting lunch from Pioneer, as is done currently. The school could also apply for private grants and receive individual contributions, according to the website.
Young said the primary difference would be that, as a Horace Mann charter school, Warwick Community School would be governed by a five-member board of trustees.
Young stressed a relationship between the school and the Pioneer School Committee would continue, with Warwick children attending Pioneer once they reach seventh grade. Another possible change, he said, is teachers could be offered incentives based on performance.
Young said he sees becoming a Horace Mann charter school as a more financially sustainable path for Warwick Community School, and a more agreeable option than closing the school, consolidating and transporting children to other towns. In fact, he hopes it might be a way of growing attendance at a school that was built in 2000 to accommodate 150 students.
“This may not be the solution, but we have to start thinking about doing things differently,” Superintendent Ruth Miller said in support of the idea during June’s School Committee meeting. “We have to think about our kids, we have to think about our district’s kids, and right now, at Pioneer, I’m not sure we’re doing that.”
Next steps For now, Young and other members of the Pioneer community are continuing to study Horace Mann charter schools. With his proposal in the very early stages, Young believes the earliest Warwick Community School might be a Horace Mann charter school would be 2019.
“We’re nowhere at the point where we need to debate the merits of it,” he said. “There’s going to be a huge public process.”
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