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On one his first days on the job in 2009, Jonathan P. Raymond recalls a parent imploring him to “please take risks for kids.” He had just come on board as Superintendent of Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD), in the top 1% of largest school districts in the country and also one of the most impoverished and ethnically diverse.
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Jul 5, 2018 · Four and a half years after leaving the Sacramento public school system, former superintendent and current Stuart Foundation president Jonathan Raymond reflects on lessons learned. Former School Superintendent Reflects on Leadership Lessons from His Tenure - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
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Raymond came to Sacramento from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina, a high-achieving district, where he was chief accountability officer in charge of data, innovation, school performance reviews and measures of student achievement. His career path – while not unique among urban superintendents – made him an outsider. He previously was ...
Raymond arrived in Sacramento at the worst of times. The district was hit with the double whammy of big state cuts and a loss of revenue from declining enrollments. “It was like landing at Normandy,” he said. So Raymond turned to outside resources through partnerships with the community and through foundation grants for two priorities: expanded sum...
Friction with the Sacramento City Teachers Association started early, during tense negotiations in response to state-forced budget cuts, over higher class sizes, furlough days, pay cuts and hundreds of preliminary layoff notices. But it accelerated when Raymond created six Priority Schoolsin 2010 and added a seventh a year later. Those schools – am...
Projected increases in funding under Proposition 98, which sets a minimum funding level for schools, plus more money to the district under the state’s Local Control Funding Formula, should ease some of the tensions over the district’s special treatment for Priority Schools. But Raymond predicts the Priority Schools will be under siege. “I think the...
Oct 17, 2013 · Sacramento City Unified Schools Superintendent Jonathan Raymond will leave his post at the end of the year, the school district announced Wednesday. Raymond announced his decision to...
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Jul 3, 2018 · JONATHAN RAYMOND: The work of educating and developing children requires leadership to help create the conditions so both children and the adults supporting them can thrive. Three words help guide this effort — hope, belief and community.
Oct 3, 2018 · Jonathan Raymond’s Wildflowers: A School Superintendent’s Challenge to America, offers an opening bid on where we might turn next for that thoughtful policymaking. Raymond is currently president of the Stuart Foundation, a family foundation dedicated to improving children’s lives through education.
