Minneapolis school district (or Special School District Number 1) covers all of the city of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Minneapolis school district has an enrollment of 36,370 students in public primary and secondary schools.
The district is faces one of the nation’s biggest performance gaps, a disproportionate suspension rates for students of color and a rapid exit of students. The district superintendent Bernadeia Johnson has exited on Jan 31 2015under mounting criticism from school advocates and less than a month after receiving low marks from the school board for boosting student achievement.
Maggie Sullivan is the Executive Director of human capital at Minneapolis school district since August 2013. She previously served as director of strategic
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These factors deny the human resource division the flexibility needed to develop a workforce that meets the school district’s dynamic needs.
The responsibility to recruit and select good teachers may be most challenging as it requires the human resource practitioner to be very knowledgeable of state and federal regulations relating to the hiring of teachers. Attraction, development and retention of employee talent in school district is one of the most consistent factors contributing to productivity, service quality and organizational performance. This job is hampered by state and federal regulations which hinder the effectiveness of human resources division’s effectiveness in managing the recruitment and advancement of teachers.
In public schools human capital is very important in organizational performance. A huge proportion of the district’s budget is spent on staff salaries and benefits. Schools performance is heavily influenced by staff who interact with the students daily. School budgets are not large enough to cater for the human capital requirements.
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