By Daily Press staff
School superintendent John Deasy got high grades from the board of education last week, when he successfully passed his first evaluation since joining the district a year ago.
It has a been a tumultuous year for Deasy and the school district, which was short millions of dollars in its budget. Deasy successfully found a way to balance the multi-million deficit in the budget and still find a way to lower class size.
The evaluation started in June and involved several individuals who have a stake in the school district, which is comprised of public schools in Santa Monica and Malibu.
The board will determine, based on the evaluation, how much of a raise Deasy will get. He can get up to a 10 percent raise on his $150,000 a year contract.
The evaluation involved both a summative assessment of Deasy’s general performance and an assessment of his achievement on four specific performance targets. The board chose the targets to focus Deasy’s efforts on specific areas that the district needed to improve on, as well to establish standards to encourage exceptional performance. The four targets were: ■building instructional leadership capacity — substantially achieved ■strategic planning — completely achieved ■improving fiscal stewardship — substantially achieved ■communications and central office — substantially achieved
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 28, 2002. Read the original PDF.