Comments for A-Plus: ProComp needs big changes now at http://ednewscolorado.org , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://ednewscolorado.org Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:22:48 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://ednewscolorado.org/other-news/a-plus-procomp-needs-big-changes-now.html#comment-9 ProComp was designed, ratified and published before the mill levy campaign kicked off. In presentations and in print we very clearly stressed the salary building nature of the core of the system and the salary building elements polled well at the time. It's a little confusing to me how just three years later influentials seem to have forgotten about all that and one claims that voters might be "outraged" to learn what we told them in the first place. As one of the designers of the ProComp system I will be the first to admit that it is not perfect. We knew that at the time and included provisions in the contract itself to tune it up based on data and compromise. I hope that the A subcommittee received adequate information about ideological/philosophical trade offs inherent in the design, the effects we hoped to encourage, and the impacts we hoped to mitigate. Some view this type of inquiry as an indulgence for which we have no time. If that's a factor here it would be ironic because effective problem solving in the context of diverse view points is exactly what we claim to be teaching kids. - Jeff Buck Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:17:16 +0100