Campi, You Want To Talk "Status Quo?"

I was all set to just let the Greater Lowell Technical High School just move along, unremarked. They are out in the woods and few are sticking their noses in over there. Which is good, because they were a soup sandwich for a decade.

But, Jim Campanini just had to open his big mouth and try to blow smoke up Lowell's asses.

So instead of going with the status quo (Link), he viewed this not as the school district's problem, but as an opportunity. He not only trimmed the $950,055 excess to bring the budget into balance, but in the process put four more teachers in the classroom. 

He accomplished this by eliminating 14 positions through a combination of attrition, layoffs, and other efficiencies. 

The bottom line: There are four new teaching positions for history, special education and math, and at the same time, the superintendent and school principal will assume the duties of two retiring administrators. 

Doing more with less is the essence of sound management in the private sector, but it's still rare in the public domain. But that's exactly what Bourgeois did.

My bowels are growling!
Hey, Campi! Have you ever heard of Mike McGovern?

Do yourself a favor, genius. Go ask Mr. Bourgeois what McGovern does for 40 hours a week?

And, while you're out at GLTHS, please resist any inclination you may have to talk like a mentor to any of the students out there. If any are interested in being a newsie, do them a favor and find the one or three you still have on Dutton St. They'll be the one's that look like they are dying a slow, agonizing professional death.