Tuesday, January 25, 2005

There is some biographic information (from 1994) about Pamela Hoffler-Riddick at
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp940811/08090167.htm.

The title page for her Ph.D. dissertation, with links to the text of
it, can be found at
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-32498-123423/.

There is some information about her office and staff at
http://www.pgcps.org/~region3/
http://www.pgcps.org/~region3/staff.html.

After looking over the latter two pages, I started wondering what
value are we getting for our money.

Looking at the size of her staff, and considering that there are five
regions, we must be spending several million dollars a year on these
regional offices.

Just what quantifiable results do we get for our investment of this money?

Are there others ways we could more effectively spend the money?
Perhaps on more permanent classrooms, more teachers, or more
educational materials?

Would our already poor educational results get any worse of we just
cut out this layer of bureaucracy?

Do the benefits of these administrators really justify the high costs?
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http://dcrussell.esmartweb.com/2005/01/more-on-hoffler-riddick-and-question.html