Transcript Ethical Leadership

Georgia Professional Standards Commission
Code of Ethics Presentation
for RESA
Gary Walker
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New and Improved Gary Walker
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Old News
Abandonment of Contracts
 Confidential Information
 Remuneration of Funds
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Routine News
Testing is a huge issue
 Inappropriate relationships with students
is a great concern
 Honesty infractions are on the rise
 Mandated reporting is required
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Georgia Not Only State
With Questionable Test
Scores
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Nationwide Problem
Over 196 of the largest 3,125 school
systems in the United States has suspect
test score improvement
 Odds of obtaining these reported results
by chance alone is over 1000 to 1
 In 33 of these school systems, the odds
were worse than 1,000,000 to 1
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Testing
United States spends $760,000,000 a year
on testing required by NCLB
 States are left to their own in monitoring
the testing
 Most states do not have resources to
conduct investigations of this magnitude
 One graduate student, in her dissertation,
surveyed teachers in her state and found
that 50% of teachers either had cheated
or knew a colleague who had cheated
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New
We have moved! Twin Towers-West
200 Piedmont Avenue-Suite 1702
 Three new commissioners began in
September-Scott Justus (Hall County),
Kami Luigs (GE), Sheryl Stalvey (Colquitt
County).
 School Systems are aware of Code of
Ethics-in the last 4 years only 5 school
systems have not reported a violation
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New (cont’d)
Unsatisfactory Evaluation-required
reporting and superintendent signs off on
assurance form-due no later than June 15
of each year
 Technology Baiting, Sexting, and Access
 Task Force Initiative
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New (cont’d)
Clearance Certificates
 People holding a Clearance Certificate:
56,434
 People who hold only a Clearance
Certificate: 29
 Are Charter schools in compliance
with O.C.G.A. 20-2-211.1?
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Professional Standards Commission and
Clearance Certificates - Present
218 Approved Charter schools
 92% of Georgia students attend the public
schools of Georgia - 1,673,740 students
 Private Schools - 107,509 students
 Home School - 42,474 students
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Information and Data
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Status of APS Cases
185 educators were reported to the PSC
 144 case summaries have been presented
to the PSC for probable cause
determination
 41 cases are still under investigation
 13 will go to Commission this month
 The PSC is waiting for the Fulton County
DA to release their investigative files
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Status of Dougherty County Cases
The PSC has received approximately 47
cases from the Governor’s Special
Investigators
 The PSC voted to investigate the
allegations at the September meeting.
 The staff is working to present the
Dougherty Co. cases to the PSC in January
and February
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Probable Cause Results
Year
FY 2001
FY 2002
FY 2003
FY 2004
FY 2005
FY 2006
FY 2007
FY 2008
FY 2009
FY 2010
FY 2011
FY 2012
Denied
15
20
31
26
25
42
23
33
25
13
18
18
Revoked
58
44
62
57
93
72
76
54
71
67
58
92
Voluntary
Surrender
14
16
21
20
22
17
26
16
27
28
20
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Total
87
80
114
103
140
131
125
103
123
108
96
135
January, 2012-January, 2013
Legal compliance-48
 Conduct with Students-52
 Alcohol and Drugs-21
 Honesty-62
 Public Funds and Property-23
 Remunerative Conduct-1
 Confidential Information-0
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Sanctions
Abandonment of Contract-2
 Required Reports-13
 Professional Conduct-31
 Testing-195
 Total-448
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Sanction
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Should a certificate be revoked, it is the
responsibility of the Superintendent that
the Educator not be allowed on a school
campus or work with students for the
duration of the sanction.
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West Georgia RESA
FY 2011
 Carroll County-6
 Carrollton City-0
 Coweta County-5
 Harris County-3
 Heard County-0
 Meriwether County-9
 Troup County-8
 Total-31
 RESAs avg-61
FY 2012
 Carroll County-3
 Carrollton City-6
 Coweta County-10
 Harris County-2
 Heard County-2
 Meriwether County-2
 Troup County-5
 Total-30
 RESAs avg-64
Regional Ethics Case Rates
RESA
2011 Cases
2011 # Certified
Educators per Case
2012 Cases
2012 # Certified
Educators per Case
CSRA
34
178
35
173
Chatt-Flint
63
72
51
88
Coastal Plains
32
134
35
123
First District
71
146
50
207
Griffin
56
146
64
128
9
204
9
204
426
120
505
101
Middle Georgia
55
103
47
120
North Georgia
23
255
21
279
Northeast Georgia
29
214
40
155
Northwest Georgia
44
203
47
190
Oconee
14
91
24
53
Okefenokee
12
184
12
184
Pioneer
15
377
21
270
Southwest Georgia
58
76
34
130
West Georgia
31
162
30
167
974 / 61
132
1025 / 64
129
Heart of Georgia
Metro
State
Totals/Average
Number of Certified Educators based on 2011 System Report Card, Georgia Department of
Education
Gary Walker
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Interesting Cases
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Standard # 1-Legal Compliance
School system reported that an educator
had been arrested for Forgery/Obtaining
Dangerous Drugs by Fraud.
 Upon investigation, it was noted that the
educator had been arrested 3 times during
the last 9 months on similar charges and
admitted to having an addiction.
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Standard # 2-Conduct with
Students
The Educator was arrested and charged
with a criminal offense-cruelty to children.
 The charge was dismissed in exchange for
the educator’s testimony against her
spouse.
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Standard #2-Conduct with
Students
Two school system employees reported
that the educator admitted to them that
he engaged in sexual activity with a
female student while he was her coach.
 System investigated
 Educator resigned
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Conduct with Students
The Educator began an inappropriate
relationship with a student during the
school year and continued after
graduation
 Student moved in with Educator
 He said nothing physical happened until
after graduation-student said otherwise.
Eventually she moved out.
 Educator admitted to currently dating
another student but said it was ok since
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Standard # 3-Alcohol and Drugs
Educator was behaving in an unusual
manner and smelled of alcohol.
 Teacher reported suspicion to principal
 Educator admitted to consuming
approximately 6 beers between 5:00 a. m.
and 7:00 a.m.
 He said he was drinking because it was
just Field Day
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Standard # 5-Public Funds and
Property
Educator used school computer to access
and store inappropriate material
 Students observed at least one
inappropriate image
 Educator said he had an addiction to
pornography.
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Contact information
Paul A. Shaw
 [email protected]
 404-232-2635
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