I would like to clarify some confusion over the letter presented by The Coalition of Bargaining Groups. I want to be clear that the Central Office positions that the letter referred to are: Acting Superintendent, Chief Financial Officer, Director of Human Resources and the Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction. The letter in no way should cast any dispersions on the other dedicated and hard working Central Office employees. The whole purpose of the letter was to encourage you to enable the new Superintendent to pick there own leadership support team.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
NASA Prez Clarifies Letter
NASA President Tony Ditrio sent this message to all his union members:
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I understand how NASA members were upset by his signing the letter without consulting the general membership, but I wonder if this clarification is more agreeable to many/most of the membership, in that it limits the concern to three individuals who are not part of the bargaining unit.
ReplyDeleteThis latest communication by Mr. Ditrio proves he is not getting his union's message. Mr. Ditrio continues to use his union title in an unethical way to push his personal agenda. If Mr. Ditrio wants to overthrow central office, he needs to do it using his own unarmed militia of six or seven members standing on their own. He needs to stop pretending that he has NASA standing behind him as his calvary. If he had our support, there would have been no need for him to enlist the other unions in his personal war.
ReplyDeleteMr. Ditrio, you certainly have an agenda. You want your boy in the position of Director of Elementary Education and are willing to throw to the wolves some of these people who decided against your buddy. How nasty can you get!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, shame on you for your grammatical error. It's 'their' not 'there.' You are an elementary principal and should check your grammar before publishing. Sorry, Moina, but this is not just a typo by a parent.
(Did Mike make the error?...Then you need to proofread his grammar.)
And lest we forget...we cast ASPERSIONS not DISPERSIONS...hey, he was a math teacher!!
ReplyDeleteAs a member of NASA, I think it's time for Tony Ditrio to step down from his position.
ReplyDeleteDitrio, show us you are our president and do something about the sweetheart deal the new IT guy got. It threatens our contract and it's unfair to the rest of your membership. If he gets to redefine his job and work hours I want the same right. After all we have the same exact contract. Investigate this and fix it. That's the job we put you in office to do for us all. Not to divide us all with your letters to the BOE. Show us you represent us and fix this situation.
ReplyDeleteYou represent yourself and not us! When will you get the message?
ReplyDeleteOh please. That's all I have to say.
ReplyDeleteMr. Ditrio it is time to step down and time for the union to get a vote of no confidence on you and other members of the NASA board. The clean slate is needed on your team. It is only a matter of time before the NASA leader once again sides with the NFT in these times of budget woes--and sells the administrators down the tubes. It is amazing how 38 signatures indicate how the administrators feel about the president and shadow of NASA.
ReplyDeleteWhat am I missing here?
ReplyDeleteThe Chief Financial officer, Dan Cook, has only been with the District for a year or so. When he is asked to provide information, it is provided in a clear and succinct manner. The quarterly reports are done and the forecasts are given. He hasn't pulled any punches that I've seen, so what gives? Why does NASA have him in their crosshairs?
The Interim Superintendent, Dr. Papallo, is moving on and another interim has been appointed. Neither of these gentlement are going to be the final choice. And this is a problem because?????
As for the other two positions mentioned, I can't speak to them since I don't know much about what is going on with whatever issues behind the scenes that generated the original weird letter and the subsequent, mystifying follow up letter.
Concerned
We are all concerned. Sounds like the president of the administrators union needs to step down. We don't need 'no confidence' votes announced by one person who addresses the board as a representative of the other administrators, but then...well, he's not their representative. The administrators need to get their act together, or are they not able to get their act together either? Enough of this soap opera!
ReplyDelete..............and people wonder why Norwalk is having a difficult time attracting quality candidates for the superintendent position? Between the dysfunctionality of NASA and the dysfunctionality of the BOE, who in their right mind would say "YES! I CAN'T WAIT to start in Norwalk"? Hopefully we don't have to "sweeten the pot" to attract other candidates.........
ReplyDeleteI say let the AS take the position and let him go after the union president. He will have the power to break him, and now the union president has given him the reason. Let him clean up the system and get accountability from his staff. As someone said, he is an outstanding manager. That's what we need before we go for the professor type. The candidates with the magical 'vision' don't have the ability to figure out a way to turn theory into practice. We need an accountability man/woman first.
ReplyDeleteIf the BOE turns their back on a person who gave his entire career it would be shameful. The ASI has been around long enough to know how to deal with the president of the teachers union and the president of the admin. union. He knows their games. He knows their warts and bumps. They can't manipulate him. Maybe we would have a snowball's chance in heck of getting the system back on track if we have an insider in the top job. All he needs is the power to put these people in their place.
ReplyDeleteGlad to see support for the ASI&C! I hope the board is reading this. Tony for superintendent!
ReplyDeleteIt takes a lot more than that to be a good superintendent. Being around for a long time isn't enough.
ReplyDeleteThat aside, every time the board of education has hired a superintendent to "clean house" or to control the unions, the result has been disaster. Let's try something new and refreshing: Hire someone who is intelligent, personable (enough to talk to people), academically strong and unconnected to people already in Norwalk. A person with established relationships, some of them with people this district would be better losing, is going to allow some of the same old ways to continue.
5:09, what's the matter, the tide turning against your agenda? Tony is intelligent, personable, and is academically strong. He is also intelligent enough to surround himself with very bright people in different curriculum areas to advise him.
ReplyDeleteDon't you see the letter above is exactly why the same old ways would not continue? Read it carefully. The words state that the AS should be a part of the clean sweep. Do you really think that the AS would favor the union president after the union president wrote that? You have to be kidding if you think that it would be the same old, same old ways.
5:32 - Nice try.
ReplyDelete5:32, your days are over! Accountability will be a new word to add to the administrators' vocabulary if Tony Daddona becomes the next superintendent. Board of Education, let's go for adding accountability to their lives!
ReplyDelete6:11 - Let's just agree to disagree about the wisdom of appointing TD as superintendent. I can't imagine it. In my professional opinion, Norwalk needs a very different person as superintendent.
ReplyDelete9:11, in your professional opinion you don't desire accountability. That said, I can now agree to disagree.
ReplyDeleteHow is it that whenever anyone asks why he failed to do something he should have done, you pass the buck to Corda, Lang or the unions? I'd much prefer someone who "mans-up" and admits failure.
ReplyDelete4:51 Anon, Listen to your words "I'd much prefer someone who MANS-UP and admits failure." That's the problem with this system. You want an all boys club. I say it's time for us all to WOMAN-UP. Then maybe we can straighten out this place.
ReplyDeleteI used the masculine form of the expression because TD is a man. Otherwise, I usually use gender-neutral expressions.
ReplyDeleteThis is unbelievable! Judge not that you shall not be judged.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that this has turned into a TD thread to force attention away from the real topic. The other TD, Tony Ditrio!
Am I right, Mike?
6:14 - You are accusing the wrong person. I am 6:23 and I am not Mike.
ReplyDeleteWell, you are one of the union crowd, am I right on that?
ReplyDeleteSorry if you really are not Mike. He is just on so often I guess I just assume anything negative about the AS is from him.
If "one of the union crowd" means one of the officers or members of the executive board of any of the unions, the answer is no. I am also not especially friendly with any of them.
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