CSAP Failure Results in Bruce Randolph (Middle Grades) Show that Unsuccessful DPS bureaucrat for Reform and Innovation Kristin Waters Must Resign

2009 CSAP Results are here and provide interesting info about one of the members of DPS' new Administration.

Her name is Kristin Waters, the recently appointed bureaucrat in the well-paid and bombastic position of Assistant to the Superintendent for "Reform and Innovation".

Waters was the highly promotioned principal of Bruce Randolph School between 2005 and April 2009.

However, at the Middle School level, Bruce Randolph is going south. Results from 2009 CSAP testing show that at least 80% of the students are not proficient in the core subjects. Only 5% of the students are at or above proficiency in Science, 16% in Writing, 17% in Math, and 20% in Reading.

During the 2008-2009 school year, the last for Waters as Bruce Randolph's principal, the decay was visible. Middle School Science proficient students went down by 7%. Reading and Math proficient students went down by 5%. Only writing showed a meager increase of proficient students by 3%.

CSAP figures prove false the public relations effort to present Waters as a successful administrator.

Because her experiment at Bruce Randolph Middle Grades failed, despite the financial and PR support received from DPS and other sources, Waters must go.There is no point in keeping as a 6-figure DPS bureaucrat a principal showing managerial failure at the middle school level.

Bruce Randolph's Principal appointed Assistant to the Superintendent for Reform and Innovation in DPS

Ms. Kristin Waters has been appointed Assistant to the Superintendent for Reform and Innovation in Denver Public Schools. Before accepting this appointment, Ms. Waters was the Principal of Bruce Randolph School between 2005 and April 2009.

According to the Colorado Department of Education’s School Accountability Report, the Overall Academic Performance on State Assessments during 2007-2008 for Grades 6-8, and 9-10, in Bruce Randolph, was low in both cases (*).

In 2006-2007 Bruce Randolph’s performance was also qualified by CDE's Report as low

Independent observers noted that Ms. Waters is leaving her old post of more than three years at Bruce Randolph School without showing a clear and substantial improvement in student achievement, as measured by the School Overall Academic Performance on State Assessments issued by the Colorado Department of Education.

The same observers are inclined to suggest that Ms. Waters should not accept the appointment in the newly created post of Assistant to the Superintendent for Reform and Innovation. They think that Ms. Waters should continue serving as Principal at Bruce Randolph enough years as to determine the success or failure of the experiment that she helped launch in that School.

However, Denver Public Schools is already looking for a new Principal for Bruce Randolph School. DPS is offering a yearly salary of $96,454, "negotiable, and commensurate with qualification and experience", for a work year of 233 days.

(*) http://reportcard.cde.state.co.us/reportcard/CommandHandler.jsp?cmdSelect=getReportCard&schoolID=39447&searchYear=2008, http://reportcard.cde.state.co.us/reportcard/CommandHandler.jsp?cmdSelect=getReportCard&schoolID=39448&searchYear=2008).

(**) http://reportcard.cde.state.co.us/reportcard/pdf/2007_0880_6350_M.pdf